If You’re Building a Startup You Need to Move to Phoenix (Not Silicon Valley)
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#2Interesting. I've always seen Phoenix as a place where you spend most of your life indoors due to the heat. And it always has given me a "suburb" vibe when I've flown over it.
Haven't lived there though.
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#3Reads like it was more to convince themselves of their decision than anybody else here
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#4Interesting. I've always seen Phoenix as a place where you spend most of your life indoors due to the heat. And it always has given me a "suburb" vibe when I've flown over it. Haven't lived there though.
My SO was there for several years and vows never to return due, in equal measures, to the heat and the proximity to the pride, hate and ignorance side of america. (Not to suggest that the latter is a particularly or egregiously Arizonan problem)
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#5Interesting. I've always seen Phoenix as a place where you spend most of your life indoors due to the heat. And it always has given me a "suburb" vibe when I've flown over it. Haven't lived there though.
My SO was there for several years and vows never to return due, in equal measures, to the heat and the proximity to the pride, hate and ignorance side of america. (Not to suggest that the latter is a particularly or egregiously Arizonan problem)
Ah yeah, that's right.. that one Sheriff seems to stay in power. Hmmmm. Definitely a mark in the "con" column.
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#6Interesting. I've always seen Phoenix as a place where you spend most of your life indoors due to the heat. And it always has given me a "suburb" vibe when I've flown over it. Haven't lived there though.
The heat is particularly miserable, and this from a guy that willingly moved to NC (hot and humid). What you call "suburban", I call "the epitome of urban sprawl" (same thing, I guess). Now that's not to say that there aren't a lot of other places in AZ I wouldn't mind living (hello, Sedona, got any jobs for me yet?), but Phoenix is not one of them.
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#7Not a bad idea but probably a tough sell in June. Forecast high temperature of 115F this week. Which translates to 125F+ at ground level in the parking lot where you have to walk to your car.
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#8Not a bad idea but probably a tough sell in June. Forecast high temperature of 115F this week. Which translates to 125F+ at ground level in the parking lot where you have to walk to your car.
"But it's a dry heat"
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#9You could replace Phoenix in the article with a number of other cities, and indeed find plenty of unique benefits for each of those areas. With the exception of possibly New York or Honolulu, you're almost guaranteed to find it would be significantly cheaper in every way.
It would be good to start to see the tech industry / startup space start to spread out just a little bit more than it currently is.
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#10Not a bad idea but probably a tough sell in June. Forecast high temperature of 115F this week. Which translates to 125F+ at ground level in the parking lot where you have to walk to your car.
"But it's a dry heat"
Ill take 115F dry over 90F Chicago style humid any day.
Im in LA now and the difference humidity makes is night and day.