According to the last wife standing, Robyn Brown, the move to Flagstaff had a detrimental impact on the Brown family dynamic. Once they were settled, Robyn and her then-sister wives, Meri, Janelle, and Christine Brown, started living in separate houses that were located quite far away from each other, with Kody Brown bouncing between them. In her interview with People, Robyn argued that she felt that was the moment the group had lost its closeness, noting, "It was easier just to not spend time together."

Additionally, she mentioned the infamous Coyote Pass property in Flagstaff, where Kody initially wanted to build one huge house that everyone could live in together, including the remaining children. However, the four wives didn't like this idea, so the new plan was to build each of them a place of their own alongside another they'd all share. "We weren't as united, and everybody [was] disagreeing about how to handle it," Robyn explained, adding, "And it became this fight, and people were so independent by that point."

Notably, what Robyn failed to mention was the reason Kody moved the sister wives to Arizona. Paedon Brown, Christine's son, revealed in an interview with John Yates that Robyn had played a pivotal role in pushing for the move because her son, Dayton Brown, got accepted to Northern Arizona University, which is located in Flagstaff. "We didn't get uprooted for Dayton, we got uprooted for Dad's favorite wife," Paedon clarified (via YouTube).