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Originally Posted by COS
Mhays you're right the Springs has suburbs, but nothing like other stand alone metro areas of peer cities it's size (Tucson, Raleigh, Virginia Beach). It's too dependent upon Denver and just close enough geographically to have developed into it's own significant metro area. In the peer example of Tucson, you see the geographical separation with Phoenix being just far enough that Tucson has a significant suburb network of it's own.
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I live (half the year) in a suburb of Tucson and Phoenix might as well be on Mars. It's a 2hr (with traffic) drive away through a lot of desert.
Politically and socially the two are very different also. Tucson is like a big college town, being dominated by the U. of AZ, which makes it politically blue-ish while Phoenix is crimson.