**Sandy´s last blog post..Dental and vision insurance in Georgia

Over here in Las Vegas we are experiencing a slowdown in new resident move-ins. The last figures published still showed a net gain, but the tremendous growth of the past two decades seems to be coming to an end. When the real estate bubble burst thousands of construction jobs were lost and forced people to leave town. Now this full-blown recession is causing more trouble on the job market, especially on the Strip. Let’s see what the numbers are when the next report is issued.

Ryan Philipenko – Edmonton Real Estate Agent

**Edmonton Real Estate Blog´s last blog post..Your home may be worth more than you thought: CREA

Leon’s comment about growing, but more slowely, likely is the best case scenario.

I doubt the “moving to sister cities in the suburbs out of Phoenix” angle is probable. But hey–it’s an o.k. guess.

Population growth here for most of each of the last 50 years has been at about a 4% per year rate. More likely to happen now is that we are going to be having less than a 1% population growth for the next couple of years. And it could go negative for some years to come (including this one).

And for us, where people sometimes ask “What is the industry in the Phoenix area?”, meaning what are the top type(s) of business here, the truth is, more than not, in a word–GROWTH. When we don’t grow, we are really in “trouble”.

As an indicator of this flat lining or negative growth, and in courses I lead for agents where I cover trends of this type, I cite the “U-Haul Factor”. For the 1st time ever, Arizona is not one of the Top 10 net inbound destination states for trips of trucks of U-Haul Intl’. U-Haul reports that it is now renting almost 40 percent more trucks to people moving out of the Phoenix area than to people moving in.

Longer term, 4-5 years from now, we will be back on track with the growth we have become accustomed to…in the interim, it’s going to be quieter.

My guess is your print rag newspaper is trying to stir the pot with some leading edge news story designed, in the newsroom, to sell some trees and bleach (newspapers). If it wasn’t for bloggers like you stealing their readership we wouldn’t have stories like this.

In other words, it’s your fault the population of Phoenix is declining. In Denver, our population is growing. It has nothing to do with birth rates or the opposite, it’s just that Denver is a great place to live. Whether you have a job or not.

I highly recommend all the people who are creating the exodus from Phoenix to consider Denver! (except the ones about to die)
-Bob

**Bob Maiocco´s last blog post..Home For Sale in Denver at Sloans Lake

**Atlantanomics´s last blog post..2008 – Vinings Condos and Townhomes

**James Wheelock´s last blog post..Villages Of Tour 18 On The Tour 18 Golf Course

The AZ-Republic is always putting a BS spin on things in order to be sensationalistic and gain more readers.

Matt – no kidding. Given their subscription rates (or lack thereof) I’d say they are even failing with this tactic…