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ine, lower humidity, and winters that feel milder despite similar temperatures. Denver provides easier access to outdoor recreation - Rocky Mountains for skiing, hiking, camping, climbing, and mountain biking within an hour. Denver has better air quality than Chicago due to less industrial pollution and lower population density. Downtown Denver offers abundant, affordable parking compared to Chicago's expensive and limited options. Denver's light rail system has expanded significantly, providing good public transportation alternatives. ❌ Top Reasons to Disagree Housing costs in Denver have skyrocketed - the market may be in a bubble, with home prices and rents becoming unaffordable for average workers. Chicago offers vastly superior cultural amenities - world-class museums (Art Institute, Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium), architecture, theater district, and music venues. Denver's downtown feels less safe than Chicago's Loop - visible homelessness and public drug us...

Best reasons to agree : + It close to 16th street mall It offers good views of the city Reasons to disagree The view to the south west is blocked by the Westin Best reasons to disagree : - Score: # of reasons to agree: +1 # of reasons to disagree: -0 # of reasons to agree with reasons to agree: +0 # of reasons to agree with reasons to disagree: -0 Total Idea Score: +0 Don't like the score? It is easy to change the score. Just post a reason to agree or disagree with the overall idea, or any of the reasons and the score will change.                                                                                        Best webpages that agree : + http://www.independenceplaza.com/toc.cfm Images  that agree: ...

Best reasons to agree : +5 Chicago has the cloud gate which a giant mirror type reflective culture that is sort of in the shape of a bean, but underneath it does weird mirror reflections... It lets you take cool pictures of yourself with the Chicago Sky line. Chicago has a  frank gehry pavilion  right in the middle of down town. Chicago has a giant Picasso. Chicago has a river that goes through it. Chicago has more cool buildings, and more interesting architecture.  Best reasons to agree : +1 Denver has a blue bear that looks in a window for some reason. Denver has murals, but to be fair they are mostly commercial in nature, promoting the building they are painted in. Score: # of reasons to agree: +0 # of reasons to disagree: -1 # of reasons to agree with reasons to agree: +0 # of reasons to agree with reasons to disagree: -3/2 = -1.5 Total Idea Score: -2.5 Don't like the score? It is easy to change the score. Just post ...

Best reasons to agree : +3 Denver has a good bike system, with bike lanes, and bikes you can borrow. +1-1=0 Reasons to Agree +1 This image is proof that Denver has a "borrow a bike system" Reasons to disagree: Every big city has public bike rentals, and the Denver ones are too expensive There is a lot of good low cost parking down town Denver, which is cool.   Denver has a good bus system +0 Reasons to Agree The hybrid electric buses are cool.   Reasons to disagree The buses that let more than one person out at a time are cool. The Denver bus and train stops could easily be improved. Reasons to agree: Going to Denver buss stop is a free learn to smoke clinic. I'm surprised that they are not directly sponsored by Marlboro cigarettes. I have been riding the train for about a year. I have been checked for a train ticket 3 times. When you don't check for train tickets, you get a lot of homeless people riding the trains. For this to ...

Images  that agree:  $5/day, $10 evenings It is very hard to find $4 parking in Chicago (except for the $1/hr at Northerly Island) Best reasons to agree : + It shouldn't cost you tons to just get to a city. Until public transportation is much better, cities that don't want to exclude young or middle class individuals, should try to make parking affordable.  Best reasons to disagree : - Score: # of reasons to agree: +1 # of reasons to disagree: -0 # of reasons to agree with reasons to agree: +0 # of reasons to agree with reasons to disagree: -0 Total Idea Score: +1 Don't like the score? It is easy to change the score. Just post a reason to agree or disagree with the overall idea, or any of the reasons and the score will change.                                                   ...

Best reasons to agree : +6 Buildings don't always ruin a place's aesthetic beauty.  We shouldn't build if there is a delicate echo system, but it is OK if the echo system is strong.  It is better to build in beautiful places, so that people can enjoy them, than to build in productive farm land.  People who want to protect our beautiful places for future generations, should not try to keep them as prim-eval forest, but well cared for gardens. They can regulate the heck out of development, and only allow LEED certified, well thought out beautiful buildings. But a place's beauty should not automatically disqualify development, as long as the development is well thought out and managed, and public spaces are preserved for the poor to also enjoy the beauty.  Echo-tourism can be a sustainable way for us to fund wild-life habitat.  Our country needs, and will make money. We have choices. You can't...

Background, Context, and Assumptions *Better will be different to different people. You can see my assumptions below. Obviously, employment opportunities, cultural events, and other opportunities are better in Chicago. But if your just a kids and don't care about anything in the summer time, but having nice weather to ride your bike around in, consider the discussion points below. I got my info from here: http://www.bestplaces.net/climate/  or  http://www.bestplaces.net/compare-cities/denver_co/chicago_il/climate Best reasons to agree : +5 The comfort index (with higher numbers being better) is 68 in Boise, 57 in Denver, but only 47 in Chicago.  I attribute that to how windy it is in the winter, and how the humidity will really get you in the summer, which everyone knows, but also gets you (I assert) in the winter. Places that get lots of rain are nice to look at in the summer, with all the green plants, but they aren't as comfortable outside if your kids jus...