Flagstaff and Prescott are quite pleasant from extensive personal experience, but unfortunately they're not where the formerly-Bay Area jobs are flowing.
Yes. I watch fairly closely and nowadays there's basically nothing. When I moved here there was actually quite a lot of interesting stuff going on. But it slowly eroded away.
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Flagstaff is rather pleasant. Its elevation is 6900 feet.
- Climate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagstaff,_Arizona#Climate
- Visual glance at vegetation: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Flagstaf...
Further south, Prescott, at 5400 feet:
- Climate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott,_Arizona#Climate
- Visual glance at vegetation: http://image.shutterstock.com/z/stock-photo-downtown-prescot...
versus, Phoenix, at 1100 feet
- Climate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona#Climate
- Visual glance at vegetation: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/PhoenixD... (notice that the trees are all planted, as there are none on the mountains, and absent from less-prosperous residential areas)
Flagstaff and Prescott are quite pleasant from extensive personal experience, but unfortunately they're not where the formerly-Bay Area jobs are flowing.
Yes. I watch fairly closely and nowadays there's basically nothing. When I moved here there was actually quite a lot of interesting stuff going on. But it slowly eroded away.