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Pheonix is also in the middle of the desert: > Phoenix is officially America’s fastest-growing major city. https://news.yahoo.com/phoenix-nation-fastest-growi

• contrahax 5y ago
  Phoenix has some location advantages (large rivers flow into the valley, warmer climate, better soil for agriculture) than northern Nevada that makes it more desirable and spurred growth.
• larsiusprime 5y ago
  Phoenix was not just some random place in the desert that was as good as any other, it was founded because of a pre-existing canal system that the founders expanded upon that gave it much better access to water http://www.azheritagewaters.nau.edu/loc_hohokam.html http://www.azheritagewaters.nau.edu/loc_hohokam.html