RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:EVIDENCE?OT, please excuse -
Sedona was one of my favorite places in the state for a while after I first saw it and fished in Oak Creek Canyon about 37-years ago. It was then still a hard-to-reach village having glorious views all around it. Today it is quite overbuilt with subdivisions, shopping centers, offices, and all the other small-to-mid-sized community trappings - traffic jams too. Modern-day Sedona compares to modern-day Fishermans Warf in San Fransico. Gone is the charm that first made it popular. It is being loved to death.
Flagstaff has changed much too, but the usable land is not confined like Sedona. And alpine forest hides much urbanization, which makes visiting there feel like a real country get-a-way ...my wife did her grad school stint there.
VP in AZ (formerly of SF Bay Area)