A poor place to live...
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12/9/2016
I've been living here in Mesa for the past 20 years or so and I can tell you firsthand it's a terrible place to live. Nice schools. Okay neighborhoods. They are closing most of the grocery stores and have closed practically all of the candle factories in the city due to a lack of demand, apparently. When I first moved here, if you wanted a job near home the candle factories were always hiring, but now it's changing. Also it is not a safe place for pets. The residents are extremely careless drivers and dead dogs or cats on the roadsides is a fairly common site. Feral cats are also a pressing issue in many neighborhoods where the cats breed without limits or intervention. The city needs to donate some time and money to clearing up some of the feral colonies here. People and kids occasionally take one home but the majority continue to breed and overpopulate. Close to Phoenix, Chandler, Tempe, Scottsdale, Mesa is considered part of the greater Phoenix area. I would not recommend it to people who like an extremely civilized environment and lifestyle...but it is good if you like adventure and don't mind undrinkable tap water.
Marie | Mesa, AZ