Mike, I would like to examine your review fairly, point by point. 1.)"I'm a contractor, and the work goes up and down like a roller coaster." I'm sure that's true. But it's also true most anywhere. When the housing market is good, contractors are busy. (Good luck finding one to do a small job). But every good housing market is followed by a bad one. Then the building trades suffer. Always have, and always will. Regardless of where you live. 2.) "The jobs are taken by retired snowbirds, who don't need to work..." How do you know they, "don't need to work"? Did you ask them? The fact is they have as much of a right to a job here as you, me, or anyone else. Most are on a fixed income. And they can use the money from a part time job, because it comes in handy. Not everyone who retires here does so in a $850K, 4,000 sq. ft. house on the golf course. With a 40' twin screw powerboat in their 65' long garage. 3.) "The fuel is just about .40/gallon higher then anywhere else." I don't know where you got this, put it's just plain wrong. I moved here from the Phoenix area last July. I was paying $3.25 to $3.39 a gallon for Premium. I just filled up my vehicles up at Maverik, (McCulloch & Acoma), for $3.09 a gallon. 4.) "The school system is poor, the student to teacher ratio is high." While this may be true in comparison to larger city public schools, you must remember this is a resort / retirement community. Like most small retirement / resort towns, they don't invest heavily in a major school system, because they simply don't have the tax base to support it. And they don't really require it. Any more than they invest in large industrial manufacturing facilities. That's not why Lake Havasu City exists. The schools are reflective of most American towns this size, with a large retirement population. As I said in a previous post. You wouldn't buy a 3500 Series pickup truck for a smooth ride and great fuel economy. By the same token, you don't move to Lake Havasu for good, high paying jobs and great schools to get highly educated. That is not why this town exists.
William | Lake Havasu City, AZ | Report Abuse