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'City of Brotherly Love' spouts unfriendly words about Phoenix

Ginger D. Richardson
The Arizona Republic
Mar. 24, 2007 12:00 AM
Forget the "City of Brotherly Love."

We may want to start calling Philadelphia the "Municipality of Sore Losers."

Turns out, folks there have finally decided to acknowledge what we here have known, oh, for about eight months: Phoenix is now the nation's fifth-largest city based on census population counts.

And they're not happy about it.

In a story published in Thursday's Philadelphia Daily News, everyone from a Temple University professor to the Philadelphia Mayor's Office took potshots at us.

Among the choice comments? That we "cheated" by swallowing our suburbs and that we have air- and water-quality problems.

That's not sitting too well with Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, who touted the area's cultural history, abundant sunshine and job growth in a blunt response to the newspaper.

He also makes it clear that we have something that Philly doesn't: a winning basketball team.

"If you haven't been to Phoenix in the last five years, you simply need to see it for yourself," Gordon said.

"And you might want to come during the NBA Finals."

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Phoenix sucks realy though Phoenix and Las Vegas are growing at ridiculous rates i stayed in Vegas for about 5 months and everywhere you look another shopping mall or community is being built. Lotta land out there.