Reviews & Comments
Prescott, AZ
re: California Dreaming
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7/29/2019Reading this in 2019, I want to weep. I wish more Californians had your prescience, and conscience. Prescott is now just another traffic-choked, cookie-cutter, crime-ridden — and unaffordable — California ex-urb. Breaks my heart.
Prescott, AZ
re: Phoenix to Prescott?
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7/29/2019No! Prescott is not a good place to raise young people. Do real homework on median age, income-COL disparity, violent crime (has now exceeded national averages), and—especially—meth and heroin use among young people. Sorry you didn’t know the truth about Phoenix. Here is some about Prescott.
Prescott, AZ
re: Thinking of moving to Prescott Arizona?
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7/29/2019Life in Prescott is grand... for Californians who cashed out and crashed our tiny, wonderfully weird party. You killed a great place.
Prescott, AZ
re: LOVE PRESCOTT 15 yrs. now!
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7/29/2019This is a beautiful tribute. Alas, most of this description no longer applies.
Prescott, AZ
re: Potential Resident
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7/29/2019The better reviews you’re seeing come from people with at least one thing in common: plenty of money. Do real research at the US Census Bureau, US Dept of Labor, Yavapai County clerk, City Data, and those crime websites (the comments about the Courier under-covering crime are true). Do ask locals, but find people who do *not* have some special interest/something to gain by your moving here.
Prescott, AZ
re: Prescott is full of Charm and Magic
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7/29/2019I’m a longtime, old school Prescott resident. What breeds this “negativity” you condescendingly dismiss is greed, skyrocketing living costs and unscrupulous realtors who lack the vision to recognize their contribution to growing income inequality in this once-great place. You are misrepresenting the real Prescott to a degree I’d call disinformation. This is an unabashed sales pitch. As for those “young” people you so casually disparage (how you’d define “young” would probably be... entertaining), as George Bailey said, “They do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath?” Wipe your conscience.
Prescott, AZ
re: Prescott is full of Charm and Magic
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7/29/2019I’m a longtime, old school Prescott resident. What breeds this “negativity” you condescendingly dismiss is greed, skyrocketing living costs and unscrupulous realtors who lack the vision to recognize their contribution to growing income inequality in this once-great place. You are misrepresenting the real Prescott to a degree I’d call disinformation. This is an unabashed sales pitch. And those “young” people you so casually disparage (how you’d define “young” would probably be... entertaining)? As George Bailey said, “They do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath?”
Prescott, AZ
re: Help!
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7/14/2019It's Prescott that needs Help!
Prescott, AZ
re: Help!
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7/14/2019Have you ever actually thought about what causes that "homeless problem"? In Prescott, we rustics have a different term for it: people. Their plight is caused in great part by economic inequality. Long-time Prescott folks (working people lucky to make $25,000 a year; blue-collar retirees who've never heard of a "portfolio;" vets out of the big VA hospital) become homeless when housing and cost-of-living costs go *obscenely* out of control. In Prescott, this is largely due to people migrating from what are the essentially foreign economies of California, New York, and select parts of the Midwest to supersize their disposable incomes and demand bigger, better, newer housing (just like on HGTV!). As one realtor put it, "[Californians moving to AZ] go from coach to business class." And Prescottonians who used to fly biz class? Can no longer even afford to fly. (Ridin' the pooch. Apt metaphor for what's happened to life in Prescott.)
Economically unequal migrants to the Prescott area have destroyed affordable housing, sent the cost of living skyrocketing, expect top-tier public services *without paying the requisite taxes*, and are rapidly annihilating the "small-town culture" those realtors love to blog about. As for the unique, once-splendid environment: already gone. SoCal migration in particular transfers the worst development patterns ever conceived onto our delicate ecosystems and vulnerable habitats. Combine all the physical roads and sprawl and light pollution with the "lifestyle" Prescott migrants demand (e.g., pathological consumerism) and in less than a decade you'll find yourself in your Land Rover/Mercedes/Porsche stuck in traffic on a multi-lane superhighway (at a slightly uncomfortable distance from that homeless Prescott College professor begging for change), churning out more pollutants as you stare glassy-eyed at yet another strip of identical crap-filled big-box stores where The Granite Dells used to be.
Huh, you'll wonder, how'd Prescott get to be Sacramento? Must've been an act of God. Couldn't have been something I did. Not me. No way.
And we're running out of freaking water, whatever your real estate "professional" tells you.