Reviews & Comments
Palm Desert, CA
Quality of Life for Seniors -
4/28/2008We have been living, full-time, in Palm Desert for 4 years. There is an abundance of quality health services, especially highly rated hospitals and physicans, within easy 10 minute drive from our home. Even though these medical facilities are outside the city limits, since the cities here in Coachella Valley are so small (avg. 40,000), then everything seems so close.
Weather of course is excellent, but very hot in the summer months. Public roads are very well maintained (Palm Desert has won several awards for traffic flow) and elaborately landscapped mediums beautify the roads. Parks are outstanding in Palm Desert, and a new multi-million dollar public park just opened recently within easy walking distance of our home.
Since the Valley is a tourist attraction and mecca for snow birds from Canada, then Palm Desert has outstanding restaurants and shopping venues (i.e., El Paseo Drive). If you like casinos, there are no less than 5 Indian casinos within a maxium 30 minute driving time from Palm Desert.
Palm Desert residents also can pariticpate in the Valley wide Sun Bird public bus system, which provides assistance to seniors who no longer drive.