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Old 06-18-2015, 12:56 AM
 
Location: CA
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Well folks, you have certainly sold me on NE Ahwatukee as a nice place to live! Now to find an office job that will support me there I'm not much of a commuter. Cool neighborhood close to work is ideal to me.
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Old 06-18-2015, 09:42 AM
 
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The beauty of NE Ahwatukee is you are about 20 minutes from lots of places to work. My husband works in Tempe, and his commute is 25 minutes. Of course that does depend on traffic, but his job let's him have flexible hours to avoid the worst of it.
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Old 06-21-2015, 03:13 PM
 
Location: East Central Phoenix
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I moved to northeast Ahwatukee last August and I love it here. Very nice community with many local events, many choices for shopping and dining, great parks, hiking South Mountain, etc. I also like living within a short drive to the zoo, dbg, downtown museums and events. No place out here to catch the light rail though. The Ahwatukee annual Fourth of July party is July 3rd at Pecos park with events and fireworks..check it out everyone is pretty friendly out here!
I would think the traffic would be a hassle getting out of Ahwatukee during many times of the day. It's known as the world's largest cul de sac for a good reason. I10 is really the only freeway available ... and other than that, not really too many other escape routes. Otherwise, I like Ahwatukee. It's part of Phoenix, but has always seemed like a completely separate city.
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Old 06-22-2015, 08:57 AM
 
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I would think the traffic would be a hassle getting out of Ahwatukee during many times of the day. It's known as the world's largest cul de sac for a good reason. I10 is really the only freeway available ... and other than that, not really too many other escape routes. Otherwise, I like Ahwatukee. It's part of Phoenix, but has always seemed like a completely separate city.

48th street is pretty easy, during rush hour.

You can get east from Tukee, but not west. So I guess that does make it a cul de sac.
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Old 06-22-2015, 02:37 PM
 
Location: Sonoran Desert
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I lived in the original, the NE part and moved out 20 years ago. It was going downhill then with graffiti, druggies and gang wannabes beginning to hang out in the neighborhood parks. It's probably ghetto by now. Las Lomas, the grade school, was lousy even then and Mountain Pointe had the reputation as a football factory with a drug problem.
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Old 06-22-2015, 04:08 PM
 
Location: Centennial, CO
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I lived in the original, the NE part and moved out 20 years ago. It was going downhill then with graffiti, druggies and gang wannabes beginning to hang out in the neighborhood parks. It's probably ghetto by now. Las Lomas, the grade school, was lousy even then and Mountain Pointe had the reputation as a football factory with a drug problem.
Hmmm. I would not say it has gone downhill. Maybe you left at the worst time but the area doesn't really have any of those issues anymore.

I lived in NE Ahwatukee for a few years (Pointe South Mountain) and absolutely loved it. The only reason I left is because of a job transfer to CO, but now I'm in the process of moving back, and put an offer in on a house literally around the corner from my old one. If all goes well I'll be back at the end of July!

What I love about the area is the proximity to so much...shopping, South Mountain, zoo, downtown Tempe, ASU, Tempe Town Lake, downtown Phoenix, the airport (great if you travel at all for work), etc. You can be out of town and in the desert in less than 10 minutes by just going south on I-10. I think the Pointe South Mountain area in particular is beautiful. After dusk you can walk the golf course paths, walk over to Rustlers Rooste and grab a beer and watch night fall over most of the Phoenix metro. Great place.
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Old 06-22-2015, 04:12 PM
 
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Hmmm. I would not say it has gone downhill. Maybe you left at the worst time but the area doesn't really have any of those issues anymore.

I lived in NE Ahwatukee for a few years (Pointe South Mountain) and absolutely loved it. The only reason I left is because of a job transfer to CO, but now I'm in the process of moving back, and put an offer in on a house literally around the corner from my old one. If all goes well I'll be back at the end of July!

What I love about the area is the proximity to so much...shopping, South Mountain, zoo, downtown Tempe, ASU, Tempe Town Lake, downtown Phoenix, the airport (great if you travel at all for work), etc. You can be out of town and in the desert in less than 10 minutes by just going south on I-10. I think the Pointe South Mountain area in particular is beautiful. After dusk you can walk the golf course paths, walk over to Rustlers Rooste and grab a beer and watch night fall over most of the Phoenix metro. Great place.
Yep I agree, I never saw any of the things Ponderosa mentioned, maybe just that many of the houses were getting older and starting to show their age as the newer builds were transitioning into tile roofs and stucco. Not sure about Mountain Pointe High, but it opened shortly before Ponderosa moved away. I used to live near Ray and 44th St many years ago but I went into the NE part of Ahwatukee often whether for restaurants or to hike South Mountain.
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Old 06-22-2015, 07:30 PM
 
Location: Avondale and Tempe, Arizona
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Hmmm. I would not say it has gone downhill. Maybe you left at the worst time but the area doesn't really have any of those issues anymore.

I lived in NE Ahwatukee for a few years (Pointe South Mountain) and absolutely loved it. The only reason I left is because of a job transfer to CO, but now I'm in the process of moving back, and put an offer in on a house literally around the corner from my old one. If all goes well I'll be back at the end of July!

What I love about the area is the proximity to so much...shopping, South Mountain, zoo, downtown Tempe, ASU, Tempe Town Lake, downtown Phoenix, the airport (great if you travel at all for work), etc. You can be out of town and in the desert in less than 10 minutes by just going south on I-10. I think the Pointe South Mountain area in particular is beautiful. After dusk you can walk the golf course paths, walk over to Rustlers Rooste and grab a beer and watch night fall over most of the Phoenix metro. Great place.
I can't see Ahwatukee being anything close to a ghetto, even the older parts.

Too many people throw that ghetto word around loosely and there aren't many areas in all of Phoenix fitting what defines a ghetto at all.
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Old 06-24-2015, 09:50 AM
 
Location: Centennial, CO
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Yep I agree, I never saw any of the things Ponderosa mentioned, maybe just that many of the houses were getting older and starting to show their age as the newer builds were transitioning into tile roofs and stucco. Not sure about Mountain Pointe High, but it opened shortly before Ponderosa moved away. I used to live near Ray and 44th St many years ago but I went into the NE part of Ahwatukee often whether for restaurants or to hike South Mountain.
FWIW, Mountain Pointe High is rated an 8/10 on Great Schools and about the 84th percentile of AZ high schools in student performance on SchoolDigger rankings. That's not too shabby.
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Old 06-24-2015, 10:12 AM
 
Location: Metro Phoenix, AZ USA
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Hmmm. I would not say it has gone downhill. Maybe you left at the worst time but the area doesn't really have any of those issues anymore.

I lived in NE Ahwatukee for a few years (Pointe South Mountain) and absolutely loved it. The only reason I left is because of a job transfer to CO, but now I'm in the process of moving back, and put an offer in on a house literally around the corner from my old one. If all goes well I'll be back at the end of July!

What I love about the area is the proximity to so much...shopping, South Mountain, zoo, downtown Tempe, ASU, Tempe Town Lake, downtown Phoenix, the airport (great if you travel at all for work), etc. You can be out of town and in the desert in less than 10 minutes by just going south on I-10. I think the Pointe South Mountain area in particular is beautiful. After dusk you can walk the golf course paths, walk over to Rustlers Rooste and grab a beer and watch night fall over most of the Phoenix metro. Great place.

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