Want to move to Prescott Valley, AZ (rental, townhouse)

[Leana76]

Originally Posted by blur07

prescott valley is gorgeous!

It's gorgeous, but not much to do. Just some bars, some stores, and restuarants. Yes, a movie theater too, but I don't do that but every 2 or 3 times a year.

Buffalo Wild Wings Bar & Grill is a good bar. But my favorite down here (in Prescott Valley) is The Outpost Saloon, near Hwy. 89 (the back way).

[carecare7]

The people there are not friendly. The retirees seem to hate kids. The library seems to have old, senior volunteers that really treat families with kids like dirt. People everywhere there seem to have inconsiderate attitudes and low educations. Hateful town, with neighbors that never speak to you even when you have introduced yourself in a friendly manner. Employers that routinely dump on people or overwork them for extremely low wages. Not a nice place, period.

[LBear]

Originally Posted by carecare7

The people there are not friendly. The retirees seem to hate kids. The library seems to have old, senior volunteers that really treat families with kids like dirt. People everywhere there seem to have inconsiderate attitudes and low educations. Hateful town, with neighbors that never speak to you even when you have introduced yourself in a friendly manner. Employers that routinely dump on people or overwork them for extremely low wages. Not a nice place, period.

I AGREE!! This place is LAME. Remember, Prescott & PV were founded by the RICH and RETIRED SoCals. They moved here and bought-up cheap land and got 100x more bang for the buck than they did is SoCal. Out here the former cattle ranch land owners sold millions $$$ of dollars of land to the people moving here. THEY control the politicians and everything out here.

NOW, the SoCal people that moved here in the 80s and 90s HATE the growth. They believe it is turning into another large metro-city. They OPPOSE the new people and REALLY hate the growth. Out here EVERYTHING that has to do with growth is countered by the SoCal people with lawyers. You want to expand the roads? Well, they will sue the developers to STOP the expansion.

EVERYTHING, gets sued if it has to do with growth. Yet, these same people will only pay $7.00 per hour for people to do their work. HYPOCRISY!

DO yourself a favor and MOVE to a larger town with a more friendly and progressive approach. Here, everything is backwards and anti-progress. I can't wait to get the he*^ out of here!!!!

[TN Gal in AZ]

Pettrix - You seem to hate Prescott/Prescott Valley. Just wondered if you found another place to relocate that is any better? I don't HATE Prescott/Prescott Valley, with what the jobs pay and the housing being sky high, and me being a single mom, I like the area and being close to all places I'd love to explore, but I just can't afford it. I'm looking at TX as a possible area to relocate.

[LBear]

Look into parts of Texas, Eastern Washington, Colorado (Denver area), New Mexico and Idaho. There are still some great deals out there. You need at least 1/2 million people for a town to have diversity and the ability for good paying jobs with decent priced housing.

Prescott and PV, barely have 80K people. Most of them are independently wealthy. Prescott is the Beverly Hills of Northern AZ.

Look around and do research. Don't do what most people do, fall in love with the weather and scenary. Those things don't pay the bills and make for an affordable living.

[carecare7]

Not to mention the traffic! What people that haven't lived in PV don't realize is that there are four developed township/city areas that are growing like crazy as well as Mayer and Spring Valley and they all use just three main roads to get anywhere so the traffic is awful! Here in Flagstaff, by 9AM in the morning the traffic in the city is pretty quiet. On weekends, unless there is some parents night or graduation going on at NAU, traffic is very quite in most of town. Not so in Prescott, Prescott Valley, Dewey-Humboldt areas. All week and weekend long the construction vehicles are driving everywhere and the old seniors are driving all the time.

Though the seniors are retired and could do their shopping for groceries during the low times of the day, too many do their shopping after 5PM, when all the working people have to shop because they work. It is crazy. The same old person that takes years to get into their car and move out of the way in the parking lot will ram you with their shopping cart to get in front of you in the checkout line! The entire area was awful to live in. It took too long to go anywhere because of the traffic and people's attitudes. Not a good place for families or working people at all.

[LBear]

I agree. Traffic is REALLY BAD for such a "small" town. I lived in Phoenix and Prescott traffic can be more brutal. The town only has Highway 69 asthe main feeder road.

The retirees drive like they have all the time in world and there are A LOT of them here. They are NOT use to the growth and workers. It takes me 30 minutes to travel 10 miles. To get from the downtown square to PV is a 30 minute drive in the afternoon. Gurley Street is ram-packed and slow moving. Then Hgy 69 is a crawl from the casinos to Costco. Then it bottles-up again in PV.

Ask any of the former residents back in pre-2000 and they will tell you it went from open highways to grid-locks.

The towns want and need to build MORE highways but the stupid retired SoCals protest any road expansion and they sue the city and county. Unlike us, THEY do not have to work, they have tons of money and tons of time so they like to make life miserable for everyone else and spend it on lawyers. WELCOME TO PRESCOTT!

[TN Gal in AZ]

Yeah, I agree about the traffic being terrible and the drivers in the Prescott/Prescott Valley area are pretty bad too. Out here they think of a stop sign as just a suggestion! Last summer I had a guy run a stop sign and hit my car. This past winter, a guy ran a red light and slamed into my friend's car. Since then I've had many close calls and have seen cars in front of me run stop signs! Now, I lived down in PHX for almost 2 yrs (before returning to TN and then moving back out here to Prescott Valley) I was in the Surprise/Sun City area which alot of people told me to watch out for the old people driving as they run lights etc. I never saw this down there, maybe I was lucky, but up here in Prescott Valley I've never seen such a high number of stop sign/red light runners! Basically in Arizona one practices defensive driving!

[TN Gal in AZ]

Pettrix - I've been looking into the Panhandle of TX. Also, the SW corner of CO, but it is getting pretty $$$ over there, too. I haven't really thought too much about the eastern slope of CO as I really like the desert.

[deangek]

Prescott Valley has horrible wages and communists running the politics. You will get fined for anything you do that makes your property better than anyone elses. For example, I remodeled and relandscaped my house out there. BIG MISTAKE! The town of PV got jealous that the house looked better than the crappy ones in the neighbor hood so now I have to pay $1500 in fines. They have the good ol' boys running the government there. Oh! and the police are closed on weekends!... try going to the PV Police dept on a sat or sunday... there's noone there! Best thing you can do is not go to PV, if you're already there, I feel for you... but get out while you can!!!!