People choose to live here?

I'm in Phoenix (actually Scottsdale) for business and have one big question. Why do people choose to live here? I knew the temperature before I came and prepared accordingly. As my hotel is only 3/4 mile from where we are having meetings, I thought hoofing it wouldn't be all that bad. Well at 10 am and then again at 8 pm, it wasn't all that pleasant.

This is a desert; there are green lawns and other non-desert plants! Is there really enough water to go around? If I thought we had problems in San Diego, there must be bigger problems out here where the low temperature is 84 degrees!

I'll cross Phoenix off my vacation list for the middle of the summer.

Comments

July 11th, 2009
Tyler

The truth is, you probably don’t have water problems down in SD. We up north are told we are in the early stages of a drought, but know it’s simply a facade to not question the rising rate of water. Funny that while all this is happening, I drove by the lake the other day and it is full as ever.