Prescott ranked low resembling a 'typical' US city (Phoenix: violent crime, mortgages)

[Hschlick84]

Based on Wallet Hub and the 5 categories in the Sociodemographic Stats such as economic, housing, and education. Prescott ranked #305 out of #379. On the other hand, Phoenix ranked #6 being a city that best reflects the country as a whole. Just wanted to point it out.

https://wallethub.com/edu/metro-area...sk-the-experts

[k2rider]

Living in the sphere of San Diego's shadow....I have ZERO desire to live in a "typical US city" if there are touting Phoenix as such. Gridlock traffic, violent crime thru the roof, a Sheriff that's incompetent and millions of houses built on top of each other. Did I mention the traffic?

[snebarekim]

Originally Posted by Hschlick84

Based on Wallet Hub and the 5 categories in the Sociodemographic Stats such as economic, housing, and education. Prescott ranked #305 out of #379. On the other hand, Phoenix ranked #6 being a city that best reflects the country as a whole. Just wanted to point it out.

https://wallethub.com/edu/metro-area...sk-the-experts

Look at the methodology. They use weighted scales, which include age. Prescott is a bit of a "gray" city, so I am sure that has an impact in the low rating. And it seems that the point is to determine how typical a given city is. Many folks do not want typical.

[Dustdevil1]

While the study may conclude that places like Prescott are at the "low" end of the scale, the conclusions are very suspect. Why? Because the typical US city is awash in debt, filthy, crime-ridden, run by corrupt thieves, and populated by far too many violent criminals. The taxes are astronomical, they are powerless to do anything to fix the circumstances, and most are in a constant state of being on the edge of bankruptcy. Drowning in cash, most are still insolvent despite crowding mass numbers of human beings into multi-story hovels so dense you can't get a single moment of peace and quiet. On the surface, it would seem that collectivizing as much as possible would tend to condense costs and raise the quality of life for everyone, but it turns out just the opposite. These cities are often run by the same people who believed that combining large numbers of bad mortgages into enormous blocks would tend to divide the risk and minimize the statistical losses overall. In reality, it actually did just the opposite, which was to guarantee failure. That brought us the housing crisis, which enveloped nearly everyone with an ownership stake in real property across the nation.

No, I don't accept the premises of this "study", which finds that the degree to which a city can be considered a good place to live is the extent to which it largely mimics the conditions inside our largest population centers.

[autism360]

There are to many other articles that claim Prescott is one of the best places to live for me to pay attention to this silly article.