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Ever hit a conversational lull with someone who grew up in the Valley? Hit ’em with this one: “Gosh, you must have seen this place grow. Like, a lot.”
That gets ’em going. When they were a kid, such-and-such development was a citrus farm and such-and-such shopping center was all rocks and cactus. In the past 50 years, after all, the population of metro Phoenix has doubled not just once, not just twice, but fully three times…