Best Article Ever.

The chart, in today's Bulletin, listing the phases of an Amenity Migrant town. Having lived through those phases, I can tell you it is bang on. About the only thing I could add would be that Bend had perhaps even more of a "laissez faire, "growth is Good" attitude" than normal because of the horrible recession we went through in the early 80's.

Too bad this study wasn't available 20 years ago.