Originally Posted by lazycash

I was raised here also and all those people you call rejects are people who left other states to come to Phx because they didn't like where they were living. Phx had more growth than any other city from 2002-2006 and many of those people bought homes and are now upside down on them, hence the "miserable" in the article.

This statement is hilarious "I go to California and man the people are just so open and friendly." I have a home in San Diego also and love the weather and ocean, but to call the people in Cali as being "so open and friendly" is laughable. If you'd said somewhere in the Midwest or South I could have believed you, but California has largely had the perception as being stuck up and non friendly by people in other states.

If you don't like it here so much, why are you still here? You should be thankful you live in Phx and not Cali, where you'd have to worry about the 3 strikes law.