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Alamosa, CO vs Chico, CA

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- Chico has 219.5% more rainy days than Alamosa.
- Chico has 11.7% less Sunny Days than Alamosa.
- On the BestPlaces comfort index, Chico scores 15.7% better than Alamosa
 Alamosa, COChico, CAUnited States
 Rainfall  Unlock2838
 Snowfall30  Unlock28
 Precipitation  Unlock65106
 Sunny282  Unlock205
 Avg. July High  Unlock9486
 Avg. Jan. Low-2  Unlock22
 Comfort Index (higher=better)  Unlock8.17
 UV Index5.2  Unlock4.3
 Elevation  Unlock1972443
Reviews for Alamosa    5 Reviews

Rating 1 out of 5 This place is absolutely Crawling with meth and heroin addicts. They roam the streets, they constantly knock on your door asking for rides and money.  More

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If want to retire in a nice, quiet place where you can live in isolation, you have a steady stream of income from an outside source, you don't have anything valuable  More

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Over 12 years ago

Honestly Alamosa is probably the worst place ever..It sucks..Especially being African-American here..The people show signs of racism which is confusing to me seeing that  More

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Reviews for Chico    31 Reviews

Chico is imperfect like most places, but it's still good. Any and all of it's issues proceed from it's main fault of growing increasingly liberal, which is to be  More

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Over 3 years ago

Chico's decent. I've been living here for ~5 years now. Eveen though my brother loves Chico and would like to stay, I would like to leave. I have no issues with crime or  More

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I was born in Oroville and I grew up in Oroville and Biggs. I have heard all my life about crime in chico. Well I have lived in Chico near Chapman for almost 10 years  More

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