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Originally Posted by cinnamon toast
Major corporations, their clients, businessmen, high wage earners,you know the people who actually purchase the majority of tickets and suites to attend these events, it's not the average fan. How many of the above does the region really have in contrast to snowbirds and retirees? Phoenix has a big population but when was it ever "influential"? Compared to Tampa maybe but nowhere near a Seattle or Minneapolis which have smaller populations. What major company is based there? If you can tell me great because I can't think of one. The area was fine with just an NFL(arrived in 1988) and NBA team(1967), NFL for the small amount of games a year, and NBA like I said the team's history. An NHL team in Arizona is a joke and an MLB team there was iffy from the start, seeing their attendance struggles since their World Series win in 2001.
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“Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale Arizona metro area was $61,506 in 2017, the latest figures available. Phoenix median household income is $4,925 higher than the median Arizona household income and $1,170 greater than the US median household income.” Have you heard of paradise valley and Scottsdale ? The average income is 80k for 300,000+ people
Now let us compare the data is a bit off becuase from different years:
“Household incomes in Minneapolis and St. Paul average $46,000, while household incomes metrowide exceed $65,000.”
“The Median household income of a Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue Metro Area resident is $68,969 a year. The US average is $53,482 a year.”
“Households in Atlanta, GA have a median annual income of $53,843, which is less than the median annual income in the United States. Look at the chart to see how the median household income in Atlanta, GA compares to that in it's parent locations.”
And where they’d “move too”
“The Census ACS 1-year survey reports that the median household income for the Las Vegas-Paradise Nevada metro area was $57,189 in 2017, the latest figures available. Las Vegas median household income is $814 lower than the median Nevada household income and $3,147 less than the US median household income.”
And we have more people besides Atlanta
Then answer to your question is more than enough, nobody is threatening to “leave “ over attendance they want the city to shell out money for a stadium, there has been no complaints that they can’t get enough fans. Other then the coyotes but they did fine until moving out to a working class suburb 40 minutes from downtown.
As usual, full of assumptions based on an inaccurate stereotype