A better question: Where in Tucson would you NOT live? (bridge, time)

[Djbabybokchoy]

Originally Posted by miamiman

There are many small neighborhoods within Tucson where I would never live.

Specifically, I would never live south of 22nd Street from about Kolb Road to the freeway. While, there are some good neighborhoods sprinkled in that area, the majority of the area has a higher crime rate than most of Tucson. In part of that area, closer to Alvernon and Kolb, you have to also deal with with military planes flying 3 feet over your house. I'll pass, thanks.

I would also never live between Grant Road and Prince Road between Mountain Avenue and the freeway. This is an extremely large area, but there are too many sketchy areas in that corridor for my enjoyment.

I would never live in the neighborhood between Silverbell and the freeway going from Speedway down to 22nd Street. The crime rate is there is quite high as well.

Lastly, the area around Alvernon and Grant has always struck me as being very unattractive and unsafe feeling.

Also, thanks! This was exactly the specific type of answer I was looking for.

[gabygirl]

Originally Posted by nwlv

I wouldn't want to live anywhere in TUSD.

THIS!

[ruready1st]

Totally agree with the NO TUSD. If you have school age children and you want to send them to public school, I wouldn't not live in TUSD.

Vail School District, you can live just south of Irvington like in Civano or Sierra Morado, still easy commute to areas of Tucson, middle class prices. Tanque Verde or Catalina Foothills would be my other choices if you can afford more $ for a home.

[crazyme4878]

Originally Posted by actinic

Not live? Hmmmm .....

Tucson Crime Map - Showing Crime in Tucson, AZ - Crime Statistics - Crime Alerts - Crime Stops Here

Thanks for the link. That was strangely fun to check out.

[Spot]

There is no place in Tucson worth living. It was a great place back in the 70's and 80's, but now it's basically a poor, uneducated dump. Parks full of bums and streets lined with strip malls.

[azdr0710]

it's all relative, Spot.....

I'm sure back in the 70s and 80s, people lamented about how Tucson was so nice back in the 40s and 50s and now it just sucked (though they probably didn't use the word "suck" quite so freely then as we do now)....

[gabygirl]

Originally Posted by Spot

There is no place in Tucson worth living. It was a great place back in the 70's and 80's, but now it's basically a poor, uneducated dump. Parks full of bums and streets lined with strip malls.

True. And LOTS and LOTS of illegals. Lots of bleeding heart LIBERALS, too...

[Djbabybokchoy]

I hate children, so gives a poo about the school district. It's weird how so many people brought that up, though.

And liberals aren't so bad. Try living in a state overrun by self-inflated Christians. Not normal, unassuming Christians, but loud, grating, arrogant jerks that clog up your neighborhood and close streets on Sunday's. Then when they're done with that, they flock like locusts to every form of amusement (food, movies, shopping, events) for a fifty mile radius and ruin everything for everyone else.

I think I'd even prefer oblivious, flighty snowbirds over that.

[BSUEcon81]

Originally Posted by azdr0710

it's all relative, Spot.....

I'm sure back in the 70s and 80s, people lamented about how Tucson was so nice back in the 40s and 50s and now it just sucked (though they probably didn't use the word "suck" quite so freely then as we do now)....

You are so right about this. Undoubtedly there were people in the40s & 50s saying much the same thing about even earlier decades. For that matter, twenty - thirty years from now people will be describing today's Tucson as "so much nicer" than their era.

[ruready1st]

Since I didn't live here until 1999. I can only say I like it now. I think the people who live here are nice and friendly. Their education has nothing to do with it. Better educated people tend to be stuck up and pretentious and complain about uneducated people.