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by luminen 1066 days ago
We moved my retirement-age parents out of Arizona about 4 years ago, and I'm very glad we did. The neighborhood they used to live in recently ran out of water. The county does not have anything to supply the residential areas with, so if you want drinking water, you need to ship it in yourself. They would not have been physically capable of doing so, and if they were still living there, we would have needed to literally evacuate them.

I still remember visiting them, driving through mile after mile of pre-construction housing lots with nothing but dry, flat, arid land as far as the eye can see. It doesn't seem like a sustainable place on Earth for the standard American suburban sprawl.

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>It doesn't seem like a sustainable place on Earth for the standard American suburban sprawl.

No such place.