Review of Phoenix, Arizona

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We wish you would move back home.

- 5/9/2008
All these people from east of the Mississippi thought they wanted something different and when they got it they complained it wasn't like where they're from. If you can't take the heat that's fine, if you had grown up in the Sonoran desert, a winter in the Northeast would seem like hell on earth. Culture is a funny word that gets thrown around a lot with cities, if you wanted an older urban american city you could go just about anywhere in the East and find that. We have generations of english and spanish speaking culture and history here in the most unique biological region in America. We have our own culture here established and in ways it is still evolving. It's not static, it's one of the largest cities in the nation and it's still growing and defining itself and it's something worth witnessing. Before you leave, see the desert covered in wild flowers when it's seventy degrees every day for months. Arizona has every biome except for rainforest and tundra. There's forests and all sorts of real wilderness. I read a lot of negativity about Mexicans from other entries. They're not all illegal, many of them have been here since this was Mexico and if they speak spanish around you it's no different than Italian Americans speaking Italian in Brooklyn. It doesn't have to be scary, it's just different. We have lots of Mexicans here like some parts of the country have lots of black people or are all white. Probably though you should return to Averageville Ohio, Massachussetts, Virginia etc. and brag about museums and plays you never go to and think natural beauty is a bunch autumn dead leaves.
william | Tempe, AZ