I respect your insight & opinion. Both you and Teresa posted a lot to unpack here, so let's get to it... Let's start with Miller Valley: according to the Prescott News, it appears the property was approved by the board for purchase in Oct. 2017: "Ironline Partners bought the former Dexter Elementary School building last year. Now it has bought the former Miller Valley Elementary School property. Howard says this was a hard process for Board members to go through. Prescott Unified School District Superintendent Joe Howard says they have one more building to sell. Howard explains once that happens, District staff will move to Washington Traditional School on Gurley Street. A contract for a company to buy the District offices on Granite Street has been approved by the Prescott School Board." Some call this an attack on age-old landmarks, while others call it progress. I offer no opinion on this, just perspective. It appears that students are not being denied an education, being relocated elsewhere, which is most important. This building did have history & nostalgia, no doubt, but it is not a landmark listed in the National Registry. I would not be so afraid of progress, as it has brought better facilities, utilities, aesthetics & technology. As for the shortage of MDs and good restaurants, there seems to be an abundance of available data that suggests otherwise. Since the demographics of Prescott show over 50% of its residents are over age 50, sources also mention adequate medical resources with Yavapai RMC and its 2 locations are awarded nine 5-Star ratings and 4 Quality Awards by Healthgrades. Given there are only 44K Prescott residents, I'd say that's not bad at all. There are more congested areas in the US that have less. As for restaurants, I am not sure what you qualify as "good". Do you speak of "white tablecloth" venues, or more authentic Italian, French or Mediterranean cuisine? So I'll have to leave that alone due to a lack of you qualifying your remark. Teresa's comments or, rather, her vitriol, seems to be steeped in bias. It is, therefore, difficult to separate fact from partisanship, which is too bad because she does speak with a history of 7 years of residency. Unfortunately, she shows her hand with such disdain & hatred for over 50% of the entire national population that I found her opinions without merit and disqualifying. Protracted tirades over "illegal aliens" and "pussy hat-wearing liberals", and comparing a vast number of her fellow Americans to cockroaches only tells me that she is innately insecure, likely grossly underfunded in her current age status, which is causing such resentment and ugliness to ooze from her existence that it should come as no wonder these "flaky" people who meet & greet her one day with kindness learn of her biases & bigotry, elect to ignore her the next time she is encountered. As a moderate, I would do the exact same thing. Life is too short to be bothered by narrow-minded, mean-spirited people. In short, this woman needs to leave the social & political melting pot of a Prescott and move to a more inexpensive rural region in Montana (if she can handle having a Dem senator named Jon Tester, of course). Knowing that she IS indeed moving should please many citizens of all stripes already in or considering moving to Prescott.
Marcus | Gilbert, AZ | Report Abuse

Im wondering why you got 10 thumbs down. I guess there are those that cant take the truth? Perhaps they are on the city council?!! Not only do I agree with you but I have other concerns as well with the population BLAST. The small streets that were designed for this once SMALL quaint town are busting at the seams with new traffic. Traffic is backed up alot of the time now. Want to go downtown for a walk or bite to eat? Good luck finding a parking space even on a weekday now. The traffic on a week day is now as it used to be ONLY on weekends when all the tourists flooded in. The water aquaphor is at CAPACITY. Population has increased 58%. The people responsible for worldwide marketing this once cute quaint town should be fired and run out of town. Unless one has big bucks to spend on a house( over 300k); one is S.O.L. and that is if you can even find one! There is a vast shortage now. Housing is 200% higher than where I am headed. I want to be rest assured that I will have water in the near future and able to buy a decent house for my money. Homeless people on every corner pan handling! They have been relocated here due to drug rehabs that they flunked out of due to not staying off of drugs or pan handling rings that bring non homeless in to look the part and beg for money.This town has more than its share of illegal aliens. They are needed for democratic votes even if they arent here legally,they can vote!! Last but certainly not least;this town is not friendly! People here are flaky. Its takes a very long time to find someone to be friends with. One day they are friendly and the next they act as if they have never met you before. It is mind boggling. Its really too bad how much this town has changed DRASTICALLY in just the 7 yrs I have lived here. Dont believe the local radio stations. They are lying about this place IMHO. Everything they say about all the negatives here are sugar coated and made to look like small concerns. WATER is by far the biggest concern followed by housing costs and lack of housing thereof, homeless addicts everywhere you look, population boom, unfriendly people,and all the liberals that moved this way from CA,OR,IL, WA, ....etc. aka liberal states! But, by all means; c'mon and move here.Dont say you werent warned. Maybe you can catch a 1000k person pu**y hat wearing liberal event down at the square. Most likely more numerous in just a yr from now. They are multiplying like cock roaches. :(
Teresa | Prescott, AZ | Report Abuse