| | Elko, NV | Quartzsite, AZ | United States |
| Overall | 100.9 | 86.9 | 100 |
| Food & Groceries | 92.2 | 92.5 | 100 |
| Health | 124.4 | 134.4 | 100 |
| Housing | 104.4 | 46.5 | 100 |
| Median Home Cost | $301,300 | $165,800 | $338,100 |
| Utilities | 9,320.0% | 10,680.0% | 10,000.0% |
| Transportation | 92.6 | 64.3 | 100 |
| Miscellaneous | 88.2 | 83.1 | 100 |
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Elko is like all small Nevada towns - limited in many things and the only change as far as the eye can see are over priced housing starts, drugs and crime. I really like More
Spent my teen years in Elko & my parents still live there. It is extremely isolated. Life revolves around the mining industry. The old ranching families that live More
Elko has an economy that is fairly typical of mining areas, that is, boom and bust. I've lived here for about 16 or so years. It's boomed tremendously twice and busted More
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We moved here from southern California. We had visited a couple of Winters and enjoyed it so much. It was hot where we moved from so the heat was no surprise. More
Maybe parts of the Colorado River are great and the camping in the winter time is fun but the summers are the second hottest in AZ. No where to go no shopping malls, no More
Have been going to Quartzsite for about 15 years for the flea market and shows and things have been going downhill at this yearly event in recent years. The town has More
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