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The Boomtown Mirage
Paul Graham for The New York Times

Maricopa, Ariz.

By SAMANTHA M. SHAPIRO
Published: April 6, 2008

Halfway through our second bowl of tortilla chips, Daryl Fox got a call from the bank, which was threatening to begin foreclosure proceedings on his house. It was happy hour, and we were at Penascos, a strip-mall Mexican restaurant in Maricopa, Ariz., that serves flavored margaritas and a decent soft chicken taco. When Fox moved to Maricopa in the spring of 2006, he was recently divorced, almost 40, sitting on his half of the proceeds from the house that he and his ex-wife had just sold in Chandler, a suburb of Phoenix. It was a moment when home prices were shooting up all over Arizona, and Fox was determined to find something to buy. He wasn’t interested in renting; after his parents’ marriage ended, Fox had watched his father’s savings slowly slip away, and he didn’t want to make the same mistake. He wanted equity.

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