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My husband are making a 5 year plan to find our Settle Down Place. We currently live in Portland, OR (have for 7 months) and we're both pretty sure we want somewhere warmer and drier, but not too HOT. My parents lived in Flagstaff before I was born and they seemed to like it but that was in the 70s.
Okay, so my point is: what are the best small-medium towns in Arizona? pop. 50,000 or less. We like the arts and outdoors, we're vegan/vegetarian, we have 2 loving pit bulls, we're college educated, we don't have a car (but we could get one). We like the vibe of Portland, but the rain is bothersome. I'd love to live somewhere where there is little to no snow, so Arizona came to mind. Naturally, Sedona is a place that sounds enticing. Until you start looking at rental $$. So, are there even better places than Sedona that a couple can afford? Thanks for the input! |
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I don't think there are such places here. If you find one, post it so I can move there too.
I'm sure the Prescott people will jump in here soon and Prescott is a decent place to live. But it too is very expensive, has been discovered and, in my opinion, will soon be/look like a Phoenix suburb. Really, AZ is an urban state -big cities, run down company/church towns, and not much in between. |
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You want a cool place? Try Bisbee.
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You may also want to check into Show Low Arizona. Nice summers, mild winters. Gets some snow sometimes, but not much and goes away just as fast. Summer temps are not nearly as brutal as Phoenix or Tucson.
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Its not in AZ, but close, you might want to check out Gallup, NM, sounds like the climate you might be interested in.
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Gallup would not be on my list, but I agree that NM is a better place to find a nice small town than AZ. Silver City is a hot ticket right now - near perfect climate, 10,000 or so people and even a university town. It has been "discovered" though and you have to go to the back of the line of people from Phoenix and Cali that are moving there. Still it is a nice place.
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