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Once you get used to it, its actually kind of neat. The Land of Enchantment is exactly that. But, due to the economic prowess of Phoenix, I think it wins this poll. After you spend your money in Vegas, you come to Phoenix to make some more. Getting bored in the mid sized ABQ? Come to experience big city living in Phoenix.
Once you get used to it, its actually kind of neat. The Land of Enchantment is exactly that. But, due to the economic prowess of Phoenix, I think it wins this poll. After you spend your money in Vegas, you come to Phoenix to make some more. Getting bored in the mid sized ABQ? Come to experience big city living in Phoenix.
The real question ought to be, "who in their right mind would want to live in a desert?!?"
None of these cities should exist.
I moved from the Midwest where there were too many people in their right mind. Reason enough to move to the desert to be around more people who are not in their right minds.
Even though I love the city I'm in, St. George UT would be my second choice, which is definitely a desert city.
Tucson, if you really want to get technical, doesn't belong on this list. If you look up the word desert in the dictionary, it says: any area with less than 10 inches of annual precipitation. Tucson gets an average of 11 inches of precip. a year, which, technically speaking, knocks them off the list.
I moved from the Midwest where there were too many people in their right mind. Reason enough to move to the desert to be around more people who are not in their right minds.
Even though I love the city I'm in, St. George UT would be my second choice, which is definitely a desert city.
Tucson, if you really want to get technical, doesn't belong on this list. If you look up the word desert in the dictionary, it says: any area with less than 10 inches of annual precipitation. Tucson gets an average of 11 inches of precip. a year, which, technically speaking, knocks them off the list.
Tucson is the greenest lushest one of all of them. it's also the awesomest place on earth
Tucson is the greenest lushest one of all of them. it's also the awesomest place on earth
And you pay a higher price for that lushness: higher humidity.
But, 60 miles south, you rise 1000 feet in altitude to Nogales, for minor relief from Tucson, a greater relief from Phoenix.
Tucson is on my radar screen for a retirement place, and, oddly enough,
proximity to Nogales (and points south like Guaymas) is one of Tucson's great attractions for me.
Cantina hopping, real Tecate, listening to pop Latin music, on the jukebox, on a Saturday night, a red light district: I'm ready!
And you pay a higher price for that lushness: higher humidity.
But, 60 miles south, you rise 1000 feet in altitude to Nogales, for minor relief from Tucson, a greater relief from Phoenix.
Tucson is on my radar screen for a retirement place, and, oddly enough,
proximity to Nogales (and points south like Guaymas) is one of Tucson's great attractions for me.
Cantina hopping, real Tecate, listening to pop Latin music, on the jukebox, on a Saturday night, a red light district: I'm ready!
I too prefer ABQ to the others. Why? Its quieter. I love New Mexico, too. Yes it lacks many things the other big cities have, but if Im gonna move from someplace like Chicagoland to the desert Southwest, it would be to get away from the major city life. Vegas is tacky, Phoenix is too hot and boring, Tucson is a dump for the most part and the other desert cities are just either too small and weird or dangerous. ABQ has the best climate of them all, the best scenery, and is much more down-to-earth, which is something Ill look for when I retire.
...I couldn't have described it better myself
I choose Albuquerque.
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