Yuma, not for the young
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1/19/2010
Yuma is the worst place to live if you are younger than 55. The city has nothing to offer for recreation outside of local bars. If you are an outdoorsman then fishing and hiking is abundant but that is about it for the area.
Jobs are not there if you do not have a spanish last name and speak spanish as a first language (yes Yuma is in the U.S.) It is imposible to understand or get good assistance from an employee of any business if you do not speak spanish (they will look at you like a deer in the headlights if you speak english)
Insurance will kill you if the snowbirds don't do it first on the roads. The insurance rates are out the roof because of the snowbirds who come down from Kanukville (Canada) and all the other place that snow to roost during the winter months. They are horrible drivers and the insurance companies adjust greedily for it. The other factor into the high insurance rates is the uninsured motorist (mainly hispanics) on the roads in the city. If you get hit by one of them (70% chance if you are in an accident that was not caused by a snowbird) they will flee the scene. If they don't then the police are no better since they will only give them a ticket and let them drive off.
Schools suck here for the english speaking and you are only doing your children a great dis-service by placing them in the public schools in Yuma. Home school them or better yet get out of Yuma!!
The real only good thing about Yuma is that it hardly ever rains and you can fly almost year round in great weather... but stay away from Yuma airport, they don't like GA aircraft. Somerton is where I found to be the friendliest people for GA aircraft (close to cocopah casino).
In close if you don't like the taste of dirt in your water, smell of dirt in the air and nothing but dirt all around you stay the heck away from Yuma.
If you are old and wrinkley, obese, a horrible driver, hispanic and deserve the worst education known to mankind then Yuma is the place for you.
scott | ,