Las Vegas, Albuquerque, Phoenix, etc. I can understand part of the appeal (like Las Vegas), and it’s not like people haven’t lived in desert cities for millenia, but looking at them from Google Earth, they’re absolutely massive and sprawling. How can these places be viable to live in and grow so huge? What’s so appealing to them?
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Good question. Was thinking the same (but opposite) about Australia. We have a vast central desert but no significant cities and no one would want to live there if there was. I guess if we’d had massive subsidies in the form of huge military bases then maybe Alice Springs would be a million person metropolis but I can’t see it.
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