<VV> Oregon and Arizona

[Sethracer at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/24/2006 6:31:16 PM Pacific Daylight Time,  
flash at vicsmba.com writes:

It is  funny how stereotypes stick to a place.  Arizona is a MOUNTAIN 
state,  not a DESERT state.  Arizona has more pine trees than Oregon  
does.  Arizona has less desert than Oregon does.  But everyone  
pictures AZ because they usually see Phoenix.  They picture Oregon  
because they see the coast/Portland.  Almost nobody knows the  mountains of 
AZ.





However - Most of the population of Arizona lives in the Desert areas, in  
the unrelenting heat in a circle around Phoenix. There is a strip of population  
along the old route 66 - Flagstaff, etc. And Flagstaff, is truly beautiful, 
with  plenty of mountains and pine trees. In Oregon, almost nobody lives in  
the desert. People have the correct impression of both, because that is  where 
the population is - also where the jobs are. People do move to the  mountain 
areas of Arizona - as well as the desert areas of Oregon. But not most  people. 
- Seth (firmly entrenched in California - for  now!)