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Rubbish. There is no reason SoCal families should prop up clubs in weaker regions. If a region can’t support its own high level league, they should go where it exists if they want it that badly. GDA was doomed to fail in part for this reason. USSF tried to make the parents of clubs in strong soccer regions spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours in unnecessary travel to subsidize the development of kids in weak regions.
The US is a big place whether you like it or not, and not everyone gets to be a great soccer player, especially if they live in areas where the weather and lack of population don’t cooperate. If you want to live in Salt Lake City, be a skier. If you want to live in Minnesota, be a hockey player. If you live in LV or Phoenix, do whatever it is kids do when it’s 115 degrees outside. If you live in SoCal, spend the $6 in gas money to play the other excellent teams just down the road, and use the 6 hours you would have spent traveling to Phoenix for league games getting better at soccer, taking piano lessons, or doing something else more productive than watching the cactus go by from the back of the car.