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Arizona is the new Nevada
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| Contributor | mtrz |
| Last Edited | mtrz Apr 24, 2007 10:32pm |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Apr 24, 2007 10:00pm |
| Description | Arizona is the new Nevada
The Phoenix area is a magnet for people from the Golden State for two reasons: real estate prices and jobs.
By Maria L. La Ganga and Doug Smith, Times Staff Writers
April 24, 2007
BUCKEYE, ARIZ. — Kyle Campos doesn't look like a pioneer, standing behind the counter at Main Squeeze, tossing frozen berries into a whirling blender. And "go East, young man," doesn't have quite the same ring as the 19th century version.
But when he transplanted his family from Santa Barbara to this scorching slice of Sonoran Desert three years ago, Campos accomplished something he never could have done if he'd stayed on the California coast: He bought a house. He started a business.
And he unleashed a flood of family members who followed him here to the Phoenix suburbs to fulfill the same thwarted dreams. First came Aaron, his brother and business partner, with wife and four children in tow. His in-laws, who could never afford a house, came next and bought two. And last year, his mother joined them, buying a home for the first time since her divorce nearly a decade before. |
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