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I wish public transportation would be more focus on, phx is most US cities are built for the car 😢

As a long time PHX-AZ & other SW US city resident, thank you. Your words are true and I hope your message reaches reasonable law makers and city planners.

Keep building for west and eventually connect with LA

aye i live in peoria!

check out pilsen!!

The development you showed in Tempe looks like a prison.

We need high density to lower housing costs? You may want to check San Francisco or New York.

There is no such thing as a non profit. Non profit is another word for tax evasion.

Culdsac unfortunately does have parking. I do agree there should be more ideas like this though. Outside of that great video!

Why are there so many golf courses in the desert? Because there is a market.

The Colorado River water rights are mostly for agriculture irrigation

I cannot stand white neo Marxist liberals

also at @10:17 i understand your statements against incremental housing but if current residents within a specified area dont want an apartment complex in their suburb then whats the problem? not only that but they shouold keep the apartments on the inside of the main city area where the water can be sustained and afforded more easily like you said no? are you arguing for people to build mass housing anywhere? but in the video you talk about how how outer suburbs cant sustain the amount of water will be used but then you say that its hard to build an apartment complex in those same areas because the laws are set up for single family housing? are you basically arguing that in order to meet the growing population of phoenix, these suburbs need to allow more mass housing complexes so the smaller outer communities can afford to bring in more water like queen creek has done? im not sure what you are arguing tbh

The growth will doe down once Californians and Chicagoins find out its not cheap anymore

It's also nice to actually own your own land vs paying rent in a complex.

The farms used more water than the suburbs that replace it...

Vice is a propaganda outlet. Just ignore them, that's what grown-ups do.

They’re building all these apartments, homes, and warehouses but they’re all EMPTY

Bro: “Let’s take a drive.” Bro: *Starts running red lights*

consider most Arizonans probably buy bottled water that is shipped from out of state - that in itself is a hint to how growth can keep going

as a person who lives in az i can confirm ALL OF THIS

You already have similar grids in many USA cities, just make roads narrower, pedestrian friendly and build denser mixed use with parking spaces underground.

I hate it here so much. I moved here quite a few years ago into a suburb outside of Phoenix while it just was starting to grow. All of the farmland around my house is rapidly starting to disappear and is starting to take shape of an actual suburban hellhole…

developments like cul de sac and better public transport is the only way Phoenix is going to stay livable

i'm appalled your ideal home is an apartment complex.

Know this days everyone predicts the future . Like the holy Bible said their will be fake profits. Enjoy life while we here 😊

Been living here since 1999 i love my phx it doesn't bother me one bit . I can say back in 2015 i was part of doing all the main water sewer lines for the new houses out there in East mark people need to stop stressing over Lil Petty stuff i love it work in tempe on the light Rail on mill ave was part of the 202 south mountain freeway it amazing how this beautiful city has grown you people need stop letting social media get to you guys and just enjoy life . Ive been in the phx construction industry for 14 years and we still goin strong love it people need stop focusing on petty things remember life to short 😉😉🫡

Ya know what they say about a pessimist, they are just an optimist with better information.

Dallas is horrible but for USA not that bad lol.

I'm waiting for the power to go out. The place will be uninhabitable.

Copenhagen did this. Growing up in the 00's and start 10's they built the metro yo literally nowhere. There was a shopping centre at the second to last stop and nothing at the last. Construction exploded over the last 8-10 years and today tens of thousands of poeple live there. In rush hour all metro seating is gone at the before the second stop

Bro is impressed by anything that isn’t Houston lmao. Maybe compare to NYC, Boston, SF, Montreal. Or Berlin, Paris etc.

And you will have to bike trough the city, because Metro and BUSES dont drive from Midnight until 6 in the Morning, so if you want to stay late working, partying or want to go early somewhere you will be forced to bike to places. And its not cheap to use the public transport.

I was born here and currently live here and it f****** sucks in the immediate like downtown area it's not too bad but once you go about like want to say 19 or so miles outside of the downtown city center it starts to f****** suck and you starts to suck more and more the further away you get I lived in the area called surprised that he talks about briefly and it was f****** horrible car dependence is an understatement to high hill. Surprise is car mandatory it is a literal death sentence to live in surprise in the summer without owning a vehicle grand avenue starts off kind of okay but the problem with grand avenue is that a phoenix it was set up on a grid system we're basically Central avenue or avenue 0 runs north-south from one end of the salt River Valley that the city of Phoenix sits in then going north south on the west half of town you have all of the avenues turn on the eastern half of town going north south you have all of the streets those are numbered starting from one going up in consecutive numbers as far out as they need them to go then going east west from one end of town to the other you have all of the roads and drives and other things of that nature creating a relatively decent box grid where you could take for example 16th avenue from the far south end of Phoenix and you can drive on 16th avenue with perfect traffic in green lights the entire way and drive for about a good 45 minutes to an hour without stopping or without having to get off of 16th avenue if you didn't want to and it works like that for a good majority of the streets and avenues and roads here in Phoenix no matter which direction you're trying to go but grand avenue goes diagonal going northeast starting at Central avenueand so you have these random intersections in some parts of the valley that are in one diagonal line that are completely different from all of the others because every other intersection in the valley is a four-way intersection no matter where you're at in the valley any intersection you're at is guaranteed to be a four-way intersection unless you're on grand grand becomes a 6-way intersection and it's a very very poorly marked six-way intersection at that

Piedmont, California: Walkscore: 75 👍 Rent per bedroom: $2,526 💀

If lake mead and lake Powell hit Deadpool a couple million people are going to flee Nevada, and then Arizona is next in line to take a water cut because California has most of the water rights but San Diego has the most water rights bc it's Americas most important port city. The Colorado River already supports 40Million ppl across 7 states and there's barely any room for growth.

Also, Maricopa county and parts of Pinal county is a good example of how "too many people can ruin a good thing."

People need to stop moving here already! Im tired of seeing all the out of state license plates! We have doubled or tripled our population in Gilbert in the past 2-3 years! Crazy! And these people dont know how to drive at all

This is an excellent video and I would encourage you to come to LasVegas and check out what we’re doing, which isn’t much different than Phoenix

As native there is too much people 😂😢. People go home ware you from now go. Arizona is not for everybody. Just strong 💪 peoples

Great list! At first, it wasn’t sure about including Chicago but when you consider the caliber of city that it is, it is much cheaper than peers. Some other cities that come to mind for this list: Pittsburgh, buffalo, Kansas City, and Detroit

This guy seems to think if you pile people on top of one another instead of next to each other, then less water will be needed. 😅

I never understood why soo many people want to live in a hot brown place. Also, housing unaffordability is solely tied to biden and his rapid inflation and currency printing. Homes were affordable four years ago. No parking spots sounds like total shit. You are completely reliant on public transport, which is mostly used by homeless and drugged out people, to get anywhere. Forget freedom of movement or road trips. No Tempe is the exact opposite of what yall need. You need to build up and use the airspace above your major metros, while digging down for parking garages, instead of out and sprawl.

Watching this while sitting in Scottsdale my first job assignment in Arizona and yeah this metro is sprawling more than San Antonio, Houston, and Dallas ngl I thought we were bad in Texas but yeah they're building a lot here. I gotta say this city/metro is legit. It's like a bigger, slightly hotter, less humid San Antonio lol. Shoutout to ya'll here in Pheonix. I see the appeal ngl but slow tf down it ain't that serious

Build parking lots = waste of space Build parking garages = less wasted space Get rid of some of the parking garages and provide public transportation = 😊 Don’t build more lanes but instead give alternatives to driving to make less traffic = 😊😊😊

Way too many people. Quit breeding.

Im hoping to leave by 2030

Awesome Video!!!!

Yes, it is a great city and the violent crime is mostly limited to a small number of communities. But it's like this because Chicago remains one of the most segregated cities in America. There's an ongoing struggle between meaningful progress and dealing with the residue of a bygone era.

If Californians alone were to leave AZ, life would be so much better here