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Almost no one in Germany has air conditioning, especially in the westernmost reaches (which basically have London-Paris wet/moderate/barely any snow weather). |
So are are the climates in places like Portland and Seattle more comparable to Northern Europe?
Anecdotally, I see a lot of transplants to Arizona from the Pacific Northwest and vice versa. People get tired of either the rain or the sunshine and move between the two with seemingly relative frequency. |
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Why does every thread about Phoenix inevitably end up as a conversation about climate? We get it...it's a hot desert climate. It is what it is.
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The lack of AC reflects that Europe has more moderate climate; they don't get the harsh winters or the blistering heat we do over here. You don't need an AC 11 months out of the year in the northeast either but that one month makes it nice to have. |
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https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7...eb4dd~mv2.webp Also id like to point out the Irony of the title "Phoenix 101" when the lesson it was trying to teach was completely incorrect |
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fat urbanites Don't really see too many of those anywhere :haha: |
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https://www.statnews.com/wp-content/...px-768x462.jpg Except Oregon I guess. What are you doing my dude???? |
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Downtown Phoenix is pitiful in comparison to LA, Dallas, or any other large sunbelt city. Their downtowns did, and continue to, develop. |
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That's one of the various reasons why the following reasoning lacks merit: "why did downtown never develop to begin with?" "And the answer to that is the same for LA, Dallas, or any other large sunbelt city Sprawl was the order of the day." The question is not applicable to LA, Dallas, or other large Sunbelt cities... because those downtowns did, in fact, develop. And answer is not the same -- far from it. |
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Even now LA and Dallas have small looking downtown areas compared to the regions they anchor. On top of that, Dallas and LA were large cities when Phoenix was still a town. As for continued growth Downtown Phoenix has plenty; but its basically growth for the first time as most of the empty lots weren't even urban to begin with but old pre-war single family homes the area of the "original" "downtown" is completely filled in. |
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How large do you expect the downtown Dallas skyline to be? Comparable to NYC, Chicago, San Francisco or Miami? |
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While LA and Dallas do have smaller downtown areas (though they still are pretty big) relative to the overall vast size of their multi-nodal metro areas, their downtowns are still orders of magnitude larger than Phoenix's downtown in relation... because they developed earlier and because they were and are more prominent cities. So it's very difficult to claim that Phoenix is in the same boat with LA and Dallas and others when it comes to why their downtowns didn't develop -- because they actually did, while Phoenix's did not. Phoenix seems to be kind of an outlier in this case. |
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