Best place to live?
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Best place to live?
Nice suburbia w/ access to retail establishments, high speed internet and other up-to-date tech conveniences. Good economy, low taxes, low crime, good schools, affordable housing... Where is this paradise?
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Naperville, IL is western burb of Chicago. It's quite nice out there.
Naperville, IL is western burb of Chicago. It's quite nice out there.
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From: Arizona
Population: 226,000
Typical single-family home: $500,000
Est. property taxes: $2,200
Pros: Vibrant community with ample opportunities for work and play
Cons: Brutal summers
Forget its reputation as a winter retreat for well-off, golf-obsessed retirees. Scottsdale offers year-round residents a wealth of job opportunities, great schools and recreation that doesn't end at the 18th hole. There's running along the Arizona Canal or through the Greenbelt, a 13-mile network of paths and parks that doubles as the city's floodplain on those rare days that rain falls. If you can't stand the heat, you won't like Scottsdale in the summer. But locals learn how to handle 100°-plus temps.
One thing about scottsdale, the 14-16 yr olds, look 21 :noes: Not that I would know....
Typical single-family home: $500,000
Est. property taxes: $2,200
Pros: Vibrant community with ample opportunities for work and play
Cons: Brutal summers
Forget its reputation as a winter retreat for well-off, golf-obsessed retirees. Scottsdale offers year-round residents a wealth of job opportunities, great schools and recreation that doesn't end at the 18th hole. There's running along the Arizona Canal or through the Greenbelt, a 13-mile network of paths and parks that doubles as the city's floodplain on those rare days that rain falls. If you can't stand the heat, you won't like Scottsdale in the summer. But locals learn how to handle 100°-plus temps.
One thing about scottsdale, the 14-16 yr olds, look 21 :noes: Not that I would know....
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From: Mesa, AZ
Population: 226,000
Typical single-family home: $500,000
Est. property taxes: $2,200
Pros: Vibrant community with ample opportunities for work and play
Cons: Brutal summers
Forget its reputation as a winter retreat for well-off, golf-obsessed retirees. Scottsdale offers year-round residents a wealth of job opportunities, great schools and recreation that doesn't end at the 18th hole. There's running along the Arizona Canal or through the Greenbelt, a 13-mile network of paths and parks that doubles as the city's floodplain on those rare days that rain falls. If you can't stand the heat, you won't like Scottsdale in the summer. But locals learn how to handle 100°-plus temps.
One thing about scottsdale, the 14-16 yr olds, look 21 :noes: Not that I would know....
Typical single-family home: $500,000
Est. property taxes: $2,200
Pros: Vibrant community with ample opportunities for work and play
Cons: Brutal summers
Forget its reputation as a winter retreat for well-off, golf-obsessed retirees. Scottsdale offers year-round residents a wealth of job opportunities, great schools and recreation that doesn't end at the 18th hole. There's running along the Arizona Canal or through the Greenbelt, a 13-mile network of paths and parks that doubles as the city's floodplain on those rare days that rain falls. If you can't stand the heat, you won't like Scottsdale in the summer. But locals learn how to handle 100°-plus temps.
One thing about scottsdale, the 14-16 yr olds, look 21 :noes: Not that I would know....
Scottsdale is a little on the expensive side but you can still find something with in reason there. Tempe, and Mesa are pretty nice areas as well as North Phoenix. People always bitch about the heat, its really not that bad when you've got misters so you can chill outside, or you've go the A/C cranking. You allowed to put limo tint on your car because the heat.
Do I need to mention that there are so many hot chicks out here it's really unbelieveable. You won't know what I'm talking about unless you actually go out to Tempe, or Scottsdale and experence it for yourself.
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From: Arizona
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/money...006/index.html
Naperville, IL is western burb of Chicago. It's quite nice out there.
Naperville, IL is western burb of Chicago. It's quite nice out there.
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Just not So Cal if you want to buy and you're in the lower-middle working class. Be prepared to pay nearly $1mil for what you'd pay <$500K for in the midwest or most anywhere other than Southern CA. Rent SUCKS here too unless you have a kick ass job and phenomenal credit.