M has been keeping an eye on the school enrollment figures- and they have been dropping in many districts in the Valley- even the growing ones are growing at a much slower rate of growth.

It’s going to be tough to grow ourselves out of this one.

My BiL is a demographer and studies western cities, PHX among them. He tells me the metro area is likely to not grow over 100K this year. So it is theoretically growing, albeit slower.

School enrollment might be skewed by large Mexican Exodus occurring in PHX and where they tend to have larger families.

I’ve asked this question several times and have never received an answer. Is the valley population growing, shrinking or just breaking even? Would school enrollment provide more insight?

If more families are moving into the area, where are they working and living?

Agreed. So are U-haul rates between cities (the delta between the going and coming rates).

About once a week, while I’m driving along some roadway, I’ll see something lying along the road that I don’t have and need, or maybe want.

I won’t stop and risk my life like that though, in fact I should be keeping my eye on the road, not the ditch.

On the other hand, with all these foreclosures this is a great time to cruise around in your 4 cylinder pickup and just pick up aluminum or copper or anything else donateable to goodwill when people clean out the homes.

A few years ago my wife and I decided to start cutting back on purchases.

So I’m the one in the family that takes out the trash and first we went from a full can (big green thing provided by the city) and 2-3 garbage bags next to it every week, to just a full can and no bags, to a can that is sometimes full, but rarely.

Consumption = Trash…

“Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!”

Igor say: woe is me…