SperlingViews - Fayetteville, Arkansas

Lived in Fayetteville/Springdale area for 17 years, loved it, totally loved it. Housing is fair, prices are great, groceries are not expensive, schools are so of the best in the state. VERY sorry I moved away, will be coming back as soon as I can.[read more...]

Fayetteville is a great place to live in Arkansas because of its affordability with housing, education, recreation, and amenities. It is close to state parks and rivers and is improving in its friendliness to sustainability. The major thing lacking in Fayetteville is great museums and nightlife (although Dickson St. is pretty fun). [read more...]

Fayetteville residents are extremely kind and helpful. I am proud to call it home.[read more...]

Pretty good weather year round, except there can be some brutally cold days in the winter and ice storms. Fall is great in the Ozark Mountains and is perfect weather for football.[read more...]

Fayetteville is a wonderful place to live.[read more...]

Please contact me if you are in need of a long term home care helper or personal assistant. Or, better yet if you are willing to move in someone trying to make a fresh start! :) Female, 40, no kids, great personality and character. [read more...]

I have read some of the comments about crime rates in Fayetteville and I am puzzled. It is really a simple matter to check online about such things. Fayetteville's crime rates were below the national average 20 years ago but are today right at the national average. The traffic fatality rate is way above the national average. That rate is dubiously not reflected in the crime rates, even tho reckless driving, drunken driving, running red lights and speeding are all crimes. So safety in Fayetteville is lacking. The other writers here obviously have access to the free data available on the web. They seem to be writing rather carelessly, in not even bothering to check such sources as fbi.gov and nhtsa.gov. Is there something you other writers have in common? - perhaps being primarily native southerners?[read more...]

Fayetteville would rank very high on your personal recreation scale if you enjoy outdoor sports, such as backpacking, canoeing, hunting, or fishing. It would rank very low on your personal cultural scale if you enjoy live performances of ballet, opera, symphonic music, or theater. Extrapolate from those extremes, remember that it is in the Bible Belt, and you can get a pretty good idea of what it's like to live in Fayetteville.[read more...]

Fayetteville is an excellent city for individuals interested in politics on a national, state, or community level. There are tons of organizations with activities planned year round. It is hard to live in Fayetteville and NOT be involved in something. Additionally, there are more liberal political leanings in Fayetteville than in the rest of the state, which is decidedly more conservative.[read more...]

Fayetteville is a wonderful place with very friendly people, low crime, good schools. There are lots of outdoor activity in the surrounding area, state parks and lakes. The city also has a wonderful paved walking trail several miles long. The University of Arkansas campus is beautiful. Lots of great resturants and Great shopping in the town and other local towns. Also there is Razorback games and then there is "Bikes, Blues and B-B-Q" festivals. Every fall there is one of the largest craft fairs with many locations in a 2 county area.[read more...]

This town is awesome for someone in their twenties. Lot of women and low crime. The town is rolling hills and around the university is Dickson and pretty much a historical district.[read more...]

I moved to Fayetteville about a year ago from Asheville, NC. This place is great. Very nice people, surprisingly progressive, there are seriously "green" here, they recycle everything. The place is pretty, rolling hills, in the foothills of the Ozarks. The University of Arkansa is here. The city library is unreal, the finest I've ever seen in a city this size. Houses are reasonable, and people have pride in ownership. Every good food chain is here including Bonefish and Ruths Chris. The local restaurants, my favorites, are outstanding, from the best burger in the world at "Hugo's" to the best italian "Bordino's" to the best seafood "Cafe Rue Orleans" and "Mermaids", the food in Fayetteville rocks. Free concerts in the park in summer, great music nightly on Dickson Street, even for an older guy like me "happy hour" bands at George's Majestic, a great live music venue. Ammenities like Lake Fayetteville, great shopping. I can't believe what these other writers wrote??? JCB[read more...]

My friend had a job offer in Fayetteville a few months ago and we drove from Nashville to check out the town. We were extremely disappointed. It seemed like the entire town was unclean and very low income. We were so unimpressed with it he did not accept the job because we could not imagine leaving there. It doesn't compare to Nashville in any way, whatsoever. I thought Fayetteville was very trashy and a place I would never live.[read more...]

Fayetteville, home of UA is so culturly behind. So is the city. It's not laid out streetwise, housing, economics. The town is the college and a hospital and tyson. If it weren't for UA, this town would be gone.[read more...]

Northwest Arkansas in general is a wonderful place to live. Unfortunately there has been quite an influx of illegal immigrants and people from New Orleans, that have been continuously trying to trash the place, but NWA is still nicer than most places. The scenery is gorgeous, and the people are hospitable.[read more...]

When the economic growth came to the Ozark area and the population increased, the influx of outsiders brought about changes to where there is no longer a regional character to the people or area. The cost of living sky rocketed and the cost of housing to the point the quality of life and stability of most average families have been compromised. The actual impact on the environment was effected to where this is no longer a clean near pristine place. The quality of my job in healthcare was horrible: I have never worked in a place with so many disenchanted people and I've never seen place where so many healthcare providers were on mood stabilizers and antidepressants. Again though most were lucky to have jobs with benefits; many were working there with none. As for liberalism it does exsist among most there and diversity is fair but also is judgementalness and cliqishness and much intolerance and that is in all "ball courts", narccism is the norm there. I found Little Rock to be worse but there are still areas with great quality of life: Mount Ida, Eureka Springs, Siloam Springs, Hot Springs, Jonesboro, Lake Village, Harrison, Mountain View, Pine Bluff. The state still offers much if you consider to take in the Arkansas experience. Do watch for the mobile meth labs though when out hiking or driving the back roads. I really found more problems though in town:Little Rock or Fayetteville than I did out on the rural roads. Once the outsiders leave than maybe the Ozarks can again become what they once were. Even Little Rock was really not that bad prior to the growth of the 80's and 90's, it was just a little more violent.[read more...]

I don't live there and I am fairly new to Arkansas...but if I wanted to live in AR for the rest of my life I would live in Fayetteville. It is a really nice town. From what I have seen very clean, pretty (hills and what not). There are a lot of cultured people there but there are also hicks! Hicks are everywhere people...you cannot get away from them! Some ppl are close to family some are not! What is the big deal? All in all it is a really pretty place, nice university, nice shops, nice down town area, they recycle, variation of reliagion (did not see churches on every corner which is nice) etc..... There is tons of nature stuff to do... I might just move there...[read more...]

I don't live there and I am fairly new to Arkansas...but if I wanted to live in AR for the rest of my life I would live in Fayetteville. It is a really nice town. From what I have seen very clean, pretty (hills and what not). There are a lot of cultured people there but there are also hicks! Hicks are everywhere people...you cannot get away from them! Some ppl are close to family some are not! What is the big deal? All in all it is a really pretty place, nice university, nice shops, nice down town area, they recycle, variation of reliagion (did not see churches on every corner which is nice) etc..... I might just move there...[read more...]

I have read several postings that mention Fayetteville's crime rate as being one of the reasons to live there. Sperling posts crime rates. Fayetteville rates 4 and 5, the US rates 3 and 3, and low numbers mean low crime. I would, though, have to agree that Fayetteville's crime rates are one of the best reasons I could think of to live there, as opposed to its traffic fatality rates, the pct of its pop that speaks intelligible and correct english, the pct of its pop of 55 year old men who are open to new friendships with 55 year old guys from the west, the harsh climate (compare to Seattle), the quality of construction there, the lack of govt regulation and law enforcement, the redness of the state of AR, the redneckness of the state of AR, the idiocy of the states road work policies (doing 180 mile stretch at a time instead of 20 miles on I-40), the high divorce, smoking, bankruptcy and obesity rates, etc. To sum up, altho Fay's crime rates are considerably higher than the rates for the US as a whole, the crime rate is one of the few things Fay has to offer to a childless only child in his fifties. If you happen to be a rupublican in your thirties with small children, you may like it a little better - for now.[read more...]

I love living in the Fayetteville area. Everything I or my family wants to do is close! I think its the perfect family friendly area.[read more...]