More traffic, noise, crime, sprawl. But more jobs, economic activity, families, children, art, music. Ask the people on shady Curtis Road how they feel about growth. The highway district has bought their land, and they can keep their houses if they want. After they move them.
Faster growth is good.
Unless it's inflationary, that's too fast. They talk about an economic slowdown when they really mean a little bit slower growth. Yahoo has an index for Personal Growth , a metaphoric sort of increase. Unless you're weightlifting. A project of Hiroshima Gas.