hudkina, I don't think anyone is knocking Detroit so to speak. However, compared to Phoenix almost all stats show Phoenix will be passing lots of existing MSA's over the next 20 years. Phoenix has been challenging Atlanta for several years now for top growth honors and might surpass Atlanta eventually. Who would have thought in 1950 that Atlanta with less then 1 million people would be close to 6 million today and added 1 million new citizens in a little over 6 years time with another couple million projected by 2020. Phoenix is HOT in many ways and Detroit just isn't for the time being is all. That might change but I'm sorry to say I think Phoenix in the long term will become a huge metro just as Atlanta has and will probably be in the top 7 to 10 before long.
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