As people exit the Golden State in growing numbers, the Grand Canyon State is becoming an attractive alternative.

Morgan Tucker grew up shuttling between Arizona and California owing to the demands of her father’s job in the apparel industry. Just before Tucker’s 16th birthday, her father was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and the family became a single-income household facing high health care costs. After that, they certainly weren’t returning to California — Arizona’s lower cost of living made it easier for Tucker’s parents to navigate their financial challenges.

Tucker, now 36, has primarily stayed in Arizona ever since and is rooted in Phoenix. She made a choice years ago that is becoming increasingly popular. A growing tide of people is bidding farewell to the California coast and choosing the Grand Canyon State instead.

More than two-thirds of all domestic population movement in Arizona in 2017 was inbound, the highest among all American states, according to a study by North American Moving Services (NAMS) based on census data. That fraction of incoming-to-outgoing populations has steadily risen within Arizona, which ranked fourth among U.S. states in 2012. By contrast, the NAMS study found that 60 percent of California’s domestic moving population was leaving the state in 2017. And even including new immigrants, California’s net population grew by only 1.29 percent — less than half Arizona’s rate of growth — between 2015 and 2017, according to census data.

Tammy Frazer is making high-end fragrances, candles and soaps that are 100 percent natural and non-toxic.

The year, 2007; the place, Sydney. Life is good for South African-born Tammy Frazer. She has a marketing job at a forward-thinking bank, a mentorship that’s opened her eyes to the world of agribusiness and (almost) a master’s degree in communications. One Sunday a conversation with friends turns to perfume. The group moves on, but Frazer fixates. Unable to sleep that night, she fires up her laptop and slips through the looking glass into the nascent world of natural fragrances. The next morning, she quits her job.

Frazer Parfum, the company Frazer founded in 2008, is one of a handful of perfumers turning up their noses at the synthetic ingredients used by the biggest names in the business, choosing instead to make scents from nature. Relying on distillation innovations like CO2 extraction, the company turns roots, resins, flowers, leaves and citrus into all-natural essential oil fragrances. It’s still early days (“Most perfume shops don’t know what a natural fragrance is,” she says), but Frazer has captured the attention of New York Fashion Week, the Smithsonian Museum of African Art and model-turned-writer Sophie Dahl (who touted Frazer’s Rose & Tuberose in British Vogue).

Parents can and should be doing more to teach critical thinking skills to their kids.

Over the past year, Facebook, Twitter and other social media companies have ramped up efforts to purge their platforms of accounts spreading fake news, conspiracy theories and other untruths across the internet. But the democratization of the media and the expansion of social media in recent years is placing an increasing burden on us, the consumers of this avalanche of news and information, to do a better job of discerning fact from fiction.

Are we up to the challenge? And how well will our children do at confronting an even more challenging media landscape in the years to come? The early returns are not promising, at least when it comes to how well most of us do at engaging in critical thinking on a regular basis — and asking our children to do the same — including in the critical area of seeking out viewpoints opposed to our own. According to the findings from a new survey of more than 1,100 adults by the Reboot Foundation, an organization committed to examining the state of critical thinking, only 20 percent of parents frequently ask their children to consider an opposing view.