Review of Prescott, Arizona


Thank you rich Californians!
Star Rating - 8/7/2005
You've taken the city I remember in the 1980s as a nice, modest, unassuming, picturesque little town and once again, as you've done in so many places in the west, turned it into a super-fast growing city where yuppies drive families out of the housing market, sleazy realtors come from California to turn a quick buck, and local wages don't come close to making up for a cost of living that has quadrupled in the last decade. Cheers! Another job well done!
Jim | Philadelphia, PA
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On behalf of many of the retired military and DOD civil servants that settle in Prescott, we may come here from California, but as far as us being wealthy, we didn't get that memo....
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