Back in the early days, the US gov would provide enormous incentives for people to populate the western part of the US, going so far as to even give away free land.
Land in San Bernardino and the High Desert is effectively free right now and developers still aren't flocking there...even though people already live and work in the area (San Bernadino is a ground logistics/transshipment hub for North America.)
People already work there. The problem is that nobody wants to live there.
It's frankly going to be hard for me to resist calling it that from now on.
I'd have some trouble deciding between the two but I need to put on an extra layer when the temperature drops below 80F.
It's nicer now than it was at the bottom of the recession when it led the state in homicides and gang crimes, but it's still a long ways down from its heyday when it was a nicer city than Riverside.