not the place for me......... - 7/19/2021

lived here 13 years and leaving as soon as possible. crime rate high but getting better. much improved place since 2008. if you buy a house choose the neighborhood and neighbors VERY carefully. riverside county has changed codes to allow folks to collect trash on their property and also build illegally without permits. DHS is a place that MANY sex offenders and parolees can reside coming from LA COUNTY - not many people are aware of that. literacy rate generally LOW and social benefits [welfare] very high - so the town attracts folks looking for that. you will get the california property value benefit over 10 years but then again you have to put up with generally petty property crime and damage to your property. local police will look into "big" crimes but generally ignore all other crime. wouldn't raise a family here but would retire here for the weather. palm springs has the airport and you can generally fly anywhere in the world from there. three to four months out of the year temps 105 or higher and 85 at night - big AC bill if you don't have solar. generally, cost of living not that bad at all. huge alternative lifestyle place so if that offends you probably not the place for you.

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wonderful hot springs - 6/8/2020

Love the winters but the summers are too difficult for me. Hot and super windy. However I love the serenity, beautiful mountains, hot springs, and location close to Palm Springs. Will be back in November.

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Lifetime resident - oversharing of course - 1/4/2019

I am 29 years old and have lived in this city nearly my entire life. When my family moved to this town, there were less than 12,000 people. I've watched it grow a lot. Now, I am mainly writing this review because this site says we have snow. I don't know who wrote that we have 5 inches of snowfall per year, but whoever did has no idea what they're talking about. I've never seen snow there my entire life. Only a few hail storms throughout my entire lifetime and an occasional frozen puddle during winter. This is a desert community where temperatures regularly reach 115-120 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer, easily. There are little shade trees in this area - mostly creosote bushes. There are very few streets that have sidewalks (other than the main roads Palm & Pierson) and the streets are very dark when driving at night. Many pedestrians are struck and killed trying to cross the streets at night. It happens ALL THE TIME, but people refuse to use crosswalks out here. If you're looking for areas to live, avoid neighborhoods that are in walking distance of the stores. Areas off of Ironwood, Two Bunch Palms, Hacienda, the A-G streets from Acoma to Granada, and the numbered streets are all pretty low income and not known for having the best crowds. May find increased crime in these areas. Areas that are better suited for living: Mission Lakes Country Club, streets north of Mission Lakes Blvd, areas on the outer edges of town, and newer communities such as Skyborne. They are far from stores and public transportation. Most people need to own a car to live here and these areas are typically areas with higher incomes and less crime (except theft - thieves will steal from nicer neighborhoods if possible - but only if they have transportation there ;) ). The schools are not the best. I have attended almost all of them. My four children are homeschooled through Springs Charter instead. We had LOTS of problems in the public school system. I do work with local teachers from just about every school though for my job. There is little to do in this town if you don't like the outdoors. There are no movie theaters, malls, water parks, etc.. But we do have a small museum, a few parks / playgrounds, a recreation center complete with olympic sized pool (they offer free swimming classes for kids at different times throughout the year), and we have a nature preserve west of the city called Mission Creek Preserve. What else is there to do? There are only a handful of sit-down restaurants. The rest are all fast-food. There are two main grocery stores, a few gyms (the one off of Mission Lakes and Little Morongo is HUGE and has childcare), and oh, there are a TON of marijuana facilities. If you hate the smell, don't drive through our industrial areas. If you love it, there are like a million shops.

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Almost 30 years of living here - 7/18/2018

My husband and I moved to DHS 28 of ago. We have watched this town grow from less then 10,000 residents, and no stoplights, to the bustling city it is now. Yes, some people talk trash, and we have been seen as the ugly step-child of the Coachella Valley, but that is not us. We are a city that is changing, growing, and fighting to better ourselves, even if that means fighting our own. We will continue to grow, and get better, until Desert Hot Springs is known as a destination city, not a joke.or a place to avoid. I have faith in that. ????

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DHS (desperate hot springs) - 5/20/2014

Desert hot springs is a worker town. People in surrounding towns mostly have aversions and negative ideas about what they refer to as "desperate hot springs". However, there is money to be made in the town if you can stomach it.

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DHS (desperate hot springs) - 5/20/2014

It is a worker town. However, the reputation of desert hot springs in the larger local towns is mostly negative. People refer to desert hot springs as "desperate hot springs", and mostly have ideas and aversions towards the town...Money to be made if you can stomach it however.

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Coachella Valley - 6/5/2009

We live adjacent to the town of Desert Hot Springs. The Coachella Valley has 7 towns, the most famous being Palm Springs. Its a 2 hour drive to Los Angeles. We have approximately 350 sunny days, less than 5 inches of rain, triple digit temps from June to September. The down side is the wind where we live. Wind generator farms are to the west of us, for a reason. If you like it hot and dry, this is the place to be.

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mineral waters - 7/4/2008

Desert Hot Springs was once called Spa City and has world famous mineral waters....we stayed one year at the Miracle Springs resort it was cool....the waters here are world famous.....lots of asians and europeans....We spent an anniversary at the famous Two Buch Palms resort vey expensive but gorgeous....the opening scene in The Player( Altman film) was filmed there ...this resort was considered one of the best in the world for many years ...it is incredible...people walk around in fluffy bathrobes even in the dining room....like in European spas....the downtown areas are not great but there are great restaurants... Capri for Italian ...very good.....the wtares of this city are very hot and vey high in mineral content too...they have award winning drinking water from the tap....we went twice to the local museum...Cabot's Museum and we love it ...very funky.....we hear that We Care is THE PLACE to go...have not tried it...

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Armpit of California - 5/29/2008

My wife and two girls stopped here for the night on our way back to Arizona and stayed at a fairly nice hotel. When we went to go eat dinner at a local fast food joint we were baraged with requests for change, meth-heads, and alcoholics. I could not believe the majority of the people we saw were either strung out, dirty, or peddlers. I will never visit this city again.

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