re: A well-noted Southern city ranked #1 as dirtiest in the nation (no, it's not Baton Rouge)

Of the top 10 most populated US cities, only 1 has a Republican mayor...Dallas...and he just switched parties in 2023.

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It'd be easier to come up with a list of US cities with a 1+ million population that ISN'T a shitehole. I'll start.

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Fort Worth does the best job of keeping crime, homeless, and other unsightly things away from anywhere you’d actually visit.
San Antonio does an excellent job also but they’re disqualified because you literally can’t even park a car anywhere else without getting burglarized.

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Of the top 10 most populated US cities, only 1 has a Republican mayor...Dallas...and he just switched parties in 2023.

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2 of top 12.

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The climate in Phoenix is actually nice if you only go out at night, which is why it existing makes sense from an energy efficiency standpoint. No climate control is needed after dusk ~6 months of the year, 3 need A/C, and the remainder need heat. People are generally organized in large groups during the day at work/school and thus sharing units or running errands after work. The issue is if you want to do anything outside during the day between April-October it's absolutely brutal and almost insufferable. That and you're in a desert/bowl, so the views/terrain isn't much better

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I lived there for 5 years, live in Florida now. I prefer the "dry heat" over the humid heat of Florida. I don't work outside, so I didn't have to deal with the heat like that. It seemed like most of them started before the sun came up and ended and stopped working around 1-2pm in the summer.

Winters are great in both, but also get snowbirds in both. The green of Florida is nice, but being able to see your turn 1 mile before you get there is also nice.

The road layout in Phoenix is tops. I would love to take about 100 people who were born and raised in Phoenix and put them on camera driving in a place like Atlanta or Huntsville with an old fashion map and destination. Ahh hell, give them GPS, it won't matter.

Ha! I live in Houston (The Woodlands) and I’ve lived in Bakersfield as well. What I’ll say about Bakersfield is that you’re only about an hour or two from some really cool things.

Yeah because your dumbass has never said anything about Hurricane Katrina

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Only time Democrats come around is to ballot harvest the urban areas come election time.

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Why can't Republicans create cities in which people want to live?

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Why can't Republicans create cities in which people want to live?

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They’re called suburbs. Smaller communities lean that way as well. I think you have your chickens and eggs mixed up.

It was pretty obviously designed with energy/fuel efficiency in mind given the climate, infrastructure and highway/road layout. It’s almost like a planned community but on the scale of a few million people, something like that doesn’t just happen by accident. But I meant more along the lines of doing anything on the weekend outside during the day. For a city that supposedly loves golf, best of luck during those summer months

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It was pretty obviously designed with energy/fuel efficiency in mind given the climate, infrastructure and highway/road layout. It’s almost like a planned community but on the scale of a few million people, something like that doesn’t just happen by accident. But I meant more along the lines of doing anything on the weekend outside during the day. For a city that supposedly loves golf, best of luck during those summer months

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Yeah, summer is pretty dead. Great for traffic though.

It's also designed for growth. Even in suburban areas the roads are much wider than they need to be for the traffic.

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Beyond the fact there are no SEC schools within 2 hours of Houston

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Que?