Opinions on Fountain Hills

[osat]

Holly smoke, I am living here 3 years already, walking around fountain quite often and never so drug dealers running around, just nice people have a good time.
Gay community! Give me a break! I am sure not more and not less then Phoenix.
Only what can bother someone: FH is just fine for someone who like a lot exercise, cleaner air, good HS, desert and love wild animals. (coyotes and javelinas)

[SpaceNeedle]

Originally Posted by osat

Holly smoke, I am living here 3 years already, walking around fountain quite often and never so drug dealers running around, just nice people have a good time.
Gay community! Give me a break! I am sure not more and not less then Phoenix.
Only what can bother someone: FH is just fine for someone who like a lot exercise, cleaner air, good HS, desert and love wild animals. (coyotes and javelinas)

Ditto here... We have lived here for 4 years and have been to the Fountain park numerous times and not once seen any suspicious activities/parties. I also want to add that FH is for someone who enjoys a beautiful star-lit sky at night.

[Coyote_Blond]

While living in Phoenix area we spent many an afternoon or evening in FH visiting friends. Of COURSE there's wildlife. We build into their territory! FH has developed positively and wonderfully! And I don't recall when having money or being more upscale became a bad thing! There's no such thing as a completely drug-free neighborhood. Not all drug users are walking around in old army jackets with circles under their eyes approaching unwary picnicers! Some are lawyers, doctors, etc.! Meth's the drug of choice everywhere because it's cheap. Want submerged in it? Try being stationed in a dinky town in the Ohio Valley. Meth's like chewing gum here. FH is a terrific choice and as long as you don't go in thinking it's Utopia you're going to LOVE it! Enjoy!

[movin'on]

Originally Posted by sablebaby

Well, I would have to say that I have met some snobs in FH's as well. There is definitely money there, too. I dated a guy whose family was building a 10,000 sf home on the side of one of the mountains. Talk about snobby. FH's in a very affluent area just as Scottsdale is. So, check it out first.

I don't get it. I lived in the arm pit of the San Francisco Bay Area. I moved here deciding I'd never live like that again. That is the only way I'd live here. I just like the quiet and I live in N. Scottsdale. Everything is relative, I guess.

Oh, and as a sidenote, you really need to go to Monterrey or Santa Cruz or central CA coast to see what you're missing. Nothing here compares.

[Coyote_Blond]

No wait... save lots of your pennies..THEN go visit Monterrey or Santa Cruz or central CA coast! I have relatives in Camarillo & we've spent years visiting all over Calif. Pretty & deadly expensive. In fact that might be an understatement.

[sheena]

Originally Posted by movin'on

I don't get it. I lived in the arm pit of the San Francisco Bay Area. I moved here deciding I'd never live like that again. That is the only way I'd live here. I just like the quiet and I live in N. Scottsdale. Everything is relative, I guess.

Oh, and as a sidenote, you really need to go to Monterrey or Santa Cruz or central CA coast to see what you're missing. Nothing here compares.

Ahhh Monterrey I would love to live there if I had the big bucks. Who the heck would compare AZ to that?

[sheena]

Originally Posted by shadow91

meth is the drug of choice here in AZ. I am a nurse and moving here from IL got my first taste of the drug problem. I had never seen anyone on meth before until moving here. My son says there are tons of drugs in the school. One kid sits in class telling everyone he is going to kill his father, another states he is the grandson of a mafia person (this is true) and is telling kids for a "price" he can get them what they want. The school is aware of it but can't seem to stop it. I haven't been down to the fountain so I can't speak for that. For the most part it is quiet here, except for the coyotes yipping all night long. I call FH the "killing fields." It truly is the desert here. My son comes home from school telling me he is going to be driving in a few months and he wants cars like the other kids, hummers, beamers, lotus's, etc. I can't afford to buy him something like that. There is also alot of favoritism in the sports programs here. But like I said in my previous post, all I do is work and come home, my son loves it here. Arizona has grown so big that no matter where you go, you are going to run into something. I researched on the internet before moving here and was in for the shock of my life after relocating. Nothing on the internet could have prepared me for this lifestyle.

You just described the same experience I had with Highland HS. Lots of rich kids with beamers and hummers bored and on drugs. They like to take trips to Mexico and then sell the drugs on campus. I think if I had a chance to do it over I would have moved to a more modest area where it wasn't normal for my kids friends to have maids and drive fancy imports.

[JeepGirl118]

Originally Posted by sheena

You just described the same experience I had with Highland HS. Lots of rich kids with beamers and hummers bored and on drugs. They like to take trips to Mexico and then sell the drugs on campus. I think if I had a chance to do it over I would have moved to a more modest area where it wasn't normal for my kids friends to have maids and drive fancy imports.

Hate to be the one to go against the grain here. . . but - I have a teenager at FH's High School and the parking lot is not flooded with Hummers, Mercedes, Lotus's and Beemers. When I dropped him off this morning, I took another good look into the parking lot (since you have to basically drive through it to drop-off) after I read this the other day - and if anything, I saw more Jeep Wranglers than anything and a couple older model Mercedes and BMW's (maybe 97-00, big whoop, you can buy those for a reasonable price) more than anything - saw one Hummer in the whole entire parking lot. I do believe that the kid's cars bit here in Fountain Hills was exaggerated just a bit.

[Rambo123]

I’ve lived in fountain hills for 12 years now and I know just about the whole town. There are snobs, a lot of them (most from Scottsdale) but to be honest the "snobs" have been the most interesting people I’ve met here. you just have to give them a chance. The drug problem isn’t a fountain hills exclusive! its all across America. as a 18 year old I think its more of a parenting problem. if you can name one school where you can't find drugs then you’re from a far away place with unicorns. there aren’t any drug dealers in the parks and there are about 2 cops to every resident so its probably one of the safest towns to live in. Coyotes are a problem but once again that’s more of a parenting problem. watch your dogs and cats and coyotes wont come around, its when you let them run through the desert alone they can be eaten! Fountain Hills has been awesome to me, I grew up with a childhood no other place could match. The desert was my playground and graduating with the same kids I went to the first day of kindergarten with is a rare thing. I have lifelong friends here and anyone who doesn’t appreciate this town should move, realize they made a mistake and then move back. If your thinking about moving here, just come stay here for a week and do some of the "touristy" things and you'll fall in love.