[jcims]

Understood, i spent the weekend roaming around Borrego Springs.

My broader point is that there is a lot of land in ’the west’ that doesn’t meet the criteria that the author is talking about. Oregon, Washington, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado all have attractive destinations that aren’t (literally or practically) the desert.

Also, anecdotally it seems many of the folks migrating to Austin are actually moving east.

The point the author is making is legit, I’m just engaging in the time honored tradition of roasting bad titles.