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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH and I are from the midwest and now live in AZ. Would never ever move back. U of A wins hands down. If the person doesn't want to stay in the midwest, why go to Iowa? If they want to stay in the SW Arizona has better networking.[/quote]

How do you know where OP's kid wants to live/work? For instance, I never want to live in the water-deprived SW again.  And I love Tucson.  It just seems so dead-end for the future in terms of climate.  (Not sure I want to live in Iowa though either with the floods!).  Chicago and other northern midwest cities are on the up-swing with climate change for the long term--and they also aren't going to be flooded with retirees like AZ--so I'd rather settle there if I were a young job-seeker.  (Not saying that anyone should share my tastes--just saying that we don't know what OP's are).[/quote]

Are you illiterate? I said it depends on where they want to live. Grew up in Chicago. It sucks and would never move back. This isn't about you it's about OP. You don't seem to know much about Chicago or AZ so I don't know why you're even in this conversation. If you did you would know it's not retirees flooding AZ. [/quote]

I grew up in Chicago and lived in AZ. 
 You said " U of A wins hands down. If the person doesn't want to stay in the midwest, why go to Iowa? If they want to stay in the SW Arizona has better networking."  Your phrasing suggests you think they don't want to stay in the midwest and you think they want to stay in the SW.

And Arizona is the #2 net migration location for retirees after Florida according to the most recent US Census Bureau report.

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Retirees aren't the only people on the move you know. Most people moving to AZ these days are from California. 
https://azbigmedia.com/lifestyle/top-10-states-people-are-leaving-and-moving-to-arizona/

Millennials in particular are flocking to Phoenix. https://www.inmaricopa.com/phoenix-popular-city-millennials-moving-west-south/

The OP doesn't say where they live at all, I didn't assume they are even currently in the midwest. So if not even from the midwest why would they want to stay after graduation? Iowa is getting older and grayer, upwardly mobile young people tend to move out and never come back. Arizona is more attractive to long people for obvious reason as backed up by migration patterns as well. This doesn't seem to be a hard decision. Unless you live in Iowa and want in state tuition, but again, OP is short on the details.[/quote]

Still, a 36000 net migration of retirees to AZ surpasses all their other generational migration.[/quote]

Arizona isn't even in the top half of the oldest states by age. Illinois and Iowa both have a higher average age. So if you're trying to avoid the retirees why would you stay in the midwest?

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/states-with-the-oldest-population.html
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/oldest-states[/quote]

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