Re: Please Help Moving to AZ from Boston in 3 weeks

[sablebaby]

Originally Posted by nevercoldcall

South Scottsdale is a serious ghetto. My girlfriend lived in the Palladium apartments, the most expensive in the area, and had her car broken into twice. I lived in a house a mile away and there were 20+ burglaries per month in the neighborhood, which was one of the better ones in south Scottsdale. A friend in the area had her car broken into. Don't even thinking about living south of Camelback Rd.

Let me let you in on a little secret about phx metro/scottsdale etc....cars get broken into EVERYWHERE! So what that it was South Scottsdale. I had mine stolen in North Scottsdale and broken into twice, too!

[aj661]

Originally Posted by nevercoldcall

South Scottsdale is a serious ghetto. My girlfriend lived in the Palladium apartments, the most expensive in the area, and had her car broken into twice. I lived in a house a mile away and there were 20+ burglaries per month in the neighborhood, which was one of the better ones in south Scottsdale. A friend in the area had her car broken into. Don't even thinking about living south of Camelback Rd.

South Scottsdale was, upon a time a great place. Granted, parts of it are nothing like that now. Certain areas have been lower class for many years, going back to the days when Camelback Road was the dividing line between north and south.

But serious ghetto? Nope. Lousy neighborhoods maybe. Parts of Maryvale, the old Victory Acres in Tempe (bulldozed), some of the projects in south Phoenix, and around my first childhood home, 1109 S. Mayo, Compton, CA; those are ghettos.