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Phoenix ONLY because of location location location.....Close to California Las Vegas and Grand Canyon where else Denver is isolated 9-10 hours(by car) from another major city....If it wasn't for location I'd choose Denver
This is a FOOLISH response!!!!!! The only reason phx gets them is the weather! Denver has hosted FAR MORE World Class events! And we have the far superior football team as well! What did Denver do to the cards this season? Need I list the score? Hosting the pope, the G8, Democratic Conventions!!!! Denver has the larger and busier by far airport. Better outdoor activities. Denver is the more educated and healthier city with a better economy. Denver has the far superior mass transit system. And Denver is a CSMA of 3.3 million and still feels like a larger city in its CBD! I would not brag about how phx sprawls! People don't dig that! Denver is the superior city in almost all areas! The poll shall also show this!
But yet seemingly half of Denver's population comes here to Phoenix in winter. I cant tell you how many dozens of CO plates I see on a daily basis.
I think there are quite a few people that travel between the two cities. I've known quite a few people who moved here from Denver and vice versa. It just appears (based upon the people I know) that more ended up moving back to Phoenix.
One point no-one mentioned is the fact that Phoenix is a much newer metro than Denver. Phoenix metro didn't get going until the '50s, hence the often heard complaint that everything looks the same here.
Conversely, Denver has a more traditional-city look and feel. Residential architecture there looks more like more eastern cities, whereas Phoenix looks more LA-like.
I won't deny that Denver's drinking water is better than Phoenix's.
One thing I noticed, as an educated, white collar professional, is that the job opportunities in Phoenix, honestly are severely lacking. Whenever I do internet searches for jobs within 25 miles of Phoenix, the results are staggeringly disappointing. So many temp/contract jobs, lower-skilled white collar jobs, and a lack of corporate headquarter jobs in general. Even metros that are like half the size of Phoenix metro have WAY WAY WAY more quality, well-paying corporate jobs. What the hell?!
In this regard, Denver wins hands down, at least in my field of work! Night and day. There are jobs GALORE in Denver, for corporate tax accountants, which is my field. For this reason alone, I do not think it would be wise to move to Phoenix with no job lined up, in the case of my own specific profession.
Even the Bureau of Labor Statistics ranks Phoenix as having a low "Location Quotient" for accounting jobs, which means that the Phoenix metro has a concentration of accounting jobs that is lower than the national concentration ratio. Ridiculous!
One thing I noticed, as an educated, white collar professional, is that the job opportunities in Phoenix, honestly are severely lacking. Whenever I do internet searches for jobs within 25 miles of Phoenix, the results are staggeringly disappointing. So many temp/contract jobs, lower-skilled white collar jobs, and a lack of corporate headquarter jobs in general. Even metros that are like half the size of Phoenix metro have WAY WAY WAY more quality, well-paying corporate jobs. What the hell?!
In this regard, Denver wins hands down, at least in my field of work! Night and day. There are jobs GALORE in Denver, for corporate tax accountants, which is my field. For this reason alone, I do not think it would be wise to move to Phoenix with no job lined up, in the case of my own specific profession.
Even the Bureau of Labor Statistics ranks Phoenix as having a low "Location Quotient" for accounting jobs, which means that the Phoenix metro has a concentration of accounting jobs that is lower than the national concentration ratio. Ridiculous!
No one city can be a mecca for every type of job. You do know that, right?
"Ask yourself this question, how many Super Bowls as Denver hosted and how many has Phoenix hosted? Phoenix will be hosting its third Super Bowl this year, while Denver has never hosted the Super Bowl. This tells you right here that the powers that be consider Phoenix far more desirable than cold , snowy, Denver in almost every possible metric used to determine desirability.
It's also quite unfair to consider little Denver with an estimated MSA population of 2.7 million to a monster of a metro like Phoenix with a population of 4.4 million people."
This is a FOOLISH response!!!!!! The only reason phx gets them is the weather! Denver has hosted FAR MORE World Class events! And we have the far superior football team as well! What did Denver do to the cards this season? Need I list the score? Hosting the pope, the G8, Democratic Conventions!!!! Denver has the larger and busier by far airport. Better outdoor activities. Denver is the more educated and healthier city with a better economy. Denver has the far superior mass transit system. And Denver is a CSMA of 3.3 million and still feels like a larger city in its CBD! I would not brag about how phx sprawls! People don't dig that! Denver is the superior city in almost all areas! The poll shall also show this!
I have nothing against Phoenix, in fact I enjoy visiting AZ during the winter. However, it's very true that population is only one component of a city's international importance. In the world Global City rankings, Denver is a Beta- city. Even though Phoenix is larger, it's a Gamma+, or less important from a world economic perspective. Objects in mirror are closer than they seem.
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