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09-09-2007, 11:14 AM
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Denver Or Phoenix
If you had a choice of either Denver or Phoenix with all reasons aside that keeps you on one place over the other such as your family, your friends, your job, whatever it might be what would you prefer? You can take your family, friends, and your career with you. Would you stay or go? Intangibles like schools, weather, crime, economy, nightlife, recreation all matter. Answers from those who've spent time in both would be appreciated. I have to take on a job that requires relocation from Chicago to one of the two.
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09-09-2007, 11:21 AM
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Originally Posted by diamontesareforever
If you had a choice of either Denver or Phoenix with all reasons aside that keeps you on one place over the other such as your family, your friends, your job, whatever it might be what would you prefer? You can take your family, friends, and your career with you. Would you stay or go? Intangibles like schools, weather, crime, economy, nightlife, recreation all matter. Answers from those who've spent time in both would be appreciated. I have to take on a job that requires relocation from Chicago to one of the two.
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Denver, its warm but not hot like phoenix. Your close to pine forest, phoenix is like a dust bowl. Denver has four seasons (which might be someting you do not like). less crime in Denver. |
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09-09-2007, 12:07 PM
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Denver all the way. There is a real sense of neighborhoods and communities that just doesn't exist in mass-produced Phoenix.
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09-09-2007, 12:11 PM
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I'd like to visit Denver someday to see if that's where I'd like to eventually live. All that I have read and the pictures I've seen seem really nice. I think you may like the climate more in Denver than Phx, since your coming from Chicago (I've been to Chicago a few times).
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09-09-2007, 12:40 PM
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I'd stay in Chicago. Denver has a nicer downtown, but you're not going to live there. Otherwise life is the same, rows of tract houses on tiny lots in the burbs (the plains in Denver), shopping malls, and traffic nightmares. With Denver you get it with snow and wind, and with Phoenix you get heat and dust. Pick 'em.
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09-09-2007, 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by diamontesareforever
If you had a choice of either Denver or Phoenix with all reasons aside that keeps you on one place over the other such as your family, your friends, your job, whatever it might be what would you prefer? You can take your family, friends, and your career with you. Would you stay or go? Intangibles like schools, weather, crime, economy, nightlife, recreation all matter. Answers from those who've spent time in both would be appreciated. I have to take on a job that requires relocation from Chicago to one of the two.
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...DENVER!!!!!!! If I had a choice b/t PHX and Denver....no question Denver  The extreme heat and the fast growing population which is a mixed blessing at best to AZ would make me opt for cooler weather and all the added options that come along with it. No offence to AZ as I am a native of Phoenix  |
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09-09-2007, 02:47 PM
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The land of bougainvillea, citrus and palm trees
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Being that I hate that '4 season' thing; I would definitely pick the Phoenix area.
Otherwise: both Denver and Phoenix have their good and bad points |
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09-09-2007, 02:57 PM
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Location: Phoenix AZ but I need a beach.
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Doesn't Denver get bad weather like tornados and such? I'd pick Pheonix for that reason.
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09-09-2007, 02:58 PM
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Denver is better in my opinion. I'm an AZ naitive, who moved to Denver 8 years ago, then moved back to AZ 3 years ago. My family and I hope to move back in the next few years.
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09-09-2007, 05:03 PM
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Is staying in Chicago not an option?
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