Metro Area 'Fringes' are Booming...

Metro area 'fringes' are booming, from the USA Today, reports that some of the fastest growing counties in the U.S. in 2005, including Pinal County, lie on the farthest edge of large metropolitan areas, stretching the definition of "exburbs" to the limit. "It's not just the decade of the exburbs but the decade of the exburbs of the exburbs," said William Frey, a demographer with the Brookings Institute. "People are leaving expensive cores and going out as far as they can to get a big house and a big yard. Suburbia is moving much further out," he added. The article cites Pinal County as the seventh fastest growing county in the U.S. with a 6.9 percent growth rate for the period 2004 to 2005. The article also cites Maricopa County as gaining 563,000 people from 2000 to 2005-- more than any other county in the U.S.



http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2006-03-15-census-growth_x.htm