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Another thing about parts of the southwest, especially AZ and parts of Texas around Austin and San Antonio is that over the last 10-15 years, big swathes of boomers/silent gen are moving in/have moved in.
These boom(er) towns increasingly are building their infrastructure revolving around banks, salons, churches, and country clubs.
And within the last 7-8 years, rehab places.
Why rehab places? Boomers don’t do drugs, at least not anymore.
It’s because whenever they go, they get settled, and decide to drag along their druggie millennial kids for a fresh start. Eventually, their hellspawn druggies end up relapsing and getting kicked out of their wage slave jobs and rehab clinics and end up on the streets.
My town alone now has 300+ half way houses. Rehabbers are the backbone of the food service/lower end retail/and car wash staff in this town.
When the last boomers croak off in the next 15-20 years, places like the Texas Hill Country are going to be ghost towns minus the occasional Gen X’er who played their cards right or got lucky, because there’s no fucking way millennials or Gen z could afford to live comfortably there.
Any guesses on the next big region to move to in the coming decade or so Kiwibros?