La Quinta, Palm Desert or Indio?? (Los Angeles, San Diego: transplants, for sale, foreclosures)

[Twinkle Toes]

Yeah, I like Palm Desert. Used to live there until we recently moved to La Quinta. We had a beautiful home there with 2 guesthouses a pool, spa, built in barbecue and front courtyard with a huge kiva. It was a really nice house, but it cost so much to run the electricity. We have a very nice home in La Quinta now and our electric is less than half of what it used to be in Palm Desert.

[lexi]

I want a guesthouse really badly when I buy again... it's nice for you and especially
nice for guests so they can have their privacy. I'm sure you miss you beautiful home
but La Quinta has really gotten so much more convienent with more shopping and
restaurants. And it's so clean and fresh looking.. I do miss it!

[Twinkle Toes]

I kinda miss the guesthouses a little, but the truth is, we never really had any guests stay in them. Everyone who came up from Los Angeles usually stayed at a resort. But my older son did move into the back guesthouse. Not sure if that was good or bad though, LOL.

[EmilyD1970]

We moved from Texas to La Quinta, and we made sure we checked out the cheapest utilities area.
Our most expensive electric bill in the summer was $190. That was in August. A month later, it dropped to $128. Then dropped again to $90. Our house is around 1500 sq feet. We pay less for electric here than we did in Texas.
We also pay less for water. My last bill was $25.

[Twinkle Toes]

Originally Posted by EmilyD1970

We moved from Texas to La Quinta, and we made sure we checked out the cheapest utilities area.
Our most expensive electric bill in the summer was $190. That was in August. A month later, it dropped to $128. Then dropped again to $90. Our house is around 1500 sq feet. We pay less for electric here than we did in Texas.
We also pay less for water. My last bill was $25.

Believe it or not, I moved to San Antonio, Texas, from this gorgeous place! We lived in Palm Desert, sold our home, moved to TX for 9 months, hated it, and came back to the desert and bought a home in La Quinta. I've never appreciated being home more than I do now. I don't know what the hell I was thinking!!!

[MJRinCA]

I live in Indio, the Shadow Hills area. There are parts of Indio, mainly the older parts, that are troublesome, but we've never had any trouble. They continue to build shopping out this way, there are a couple of new shopping centers at Jackson and I-10, and within a year or two there will be a couple of more at Monroe and I-10.

I don't know how they pulled it off, but Indio seems to be in better financial shape than many of the desert cities here. They continue to revitalize areas of the city.

We very much like it here. We are close enough to the La Quinta border to spit across it, so even though we live in Indio we're pretty much in La Quinta, Indian Wells and Palm Desert every day. The only thing seperating the various cities are lines drawn on a map.

[DesertDweller3]

Everyone has specific things that are more important to them than others when they're looking to relocate (weather, finances, jobs, utilities, schools, etc.) so the previous posts said it best... if there is more information given in terms of what's most important to you, it will be much easier to give more helpful information. Each of those communities you listed have their own unique strengths and weaknesses and each have areas that are quite happy and safe for a family.

Also, each of those cities has a Chamber of Commerce and also I believe a Visitor's Center. I'd highly recommend you visit/call/e-mail them for more detailed local information.

Good luck to you and your family!

[CaliJo]

Regarding the Shadow Hills area in Indio, did you know that the earthquake fault follows the base of the mountains? I worked at one of the new communities there when it was being built and even though we were offered 'deals' to buy there, no one that I knew of would ever consider it!

[Twinkle Toes]

We've recently had a few temblors, but as far as I know the people who live in Shadow Hils are still alove. No deaths and no mass destruction or carnage. If you live in California, you can't really worry too much about earthquakes. They happen and you can't live your life in fear of them. Yeah, one day we'll have a really big one and the whole state will just drop into the ocean and be gone forever. Nothing you can really do about it. If it happens, it happens.

[POhdNcrzy]

Well the OP dropped off a few years back but the beat goes on I guess!!

(Don't worry guys, TwinkleToes is gonna DANCE her way around any earthquakes!)