Prescott Az

[BeyGon]

Or as they say there, Prescut, we spent four days there looking around. I like the place, lots of mid westerners there and I was usually the thinnest guy in the restaurant. A lot like when we went to Oz a couple years ago, lots of really big people, get back to the SoCal beach towns for the skinny chicks. Cool town, nice people. BUT, and there always is, my wife heard all the talk of how cold it gets in the winter and now that isn't on her list of good spots. I saw places I would have bought and moved next month. It isn't going to happen.

[Moses]

I don't find "cold" to be a problem. "Cold and gray" is a problem. Prescott is a little like Colorado and the California Sierras. Cold, but you get 300+ sunny days/year.

I don't mind that at all.

[Moses]

Looks good to me.

[Rot 911]

+1 on what Moses said. It's cold, but low humidity and lots of sun. In the summer it is full of tourists.

[Moses]

Seattle vs. Prescott

[Evans, Marv]

I was there in the late '70s and thought it was a really nice, sort of quaint place. I also thought at the time it might be a place I might want to move sometime later on. I returned in the '90s to take another look thinking toward retirement. I was shocked. There were sprawling developments, shopping centers, and congestion. Wrote it off my list. It's like a disease that spreads everywhere.

[ckelly78z]

Originally Posted by Moses

I don't find "cold" to be a problem. "Cold and gray" is a problem. Prescott is a little like Colorado and the California Sierras. Cold, but you get 300+ sunny days/year.

My problem with NW Ohio is that it is not only "cold and gray", but it's also windy most of the Winter which makes the cold seem even colder ala wind chill. We have had 10 record lows this year in the -10 to -25 degree range....throw in a 20 mph breeze and alll of a sudden you have -25 to -40 degrees which is not comfortable.

I probably won't get the wife to move away from family, but I -TOLD- her that when retired, we WILL go somehwere warm during Jan and Feb.

[BeyGon]

I was in shorts and T shirts while we were in Prescott, evenings were a little chilly but still in shorts. The real estate guy started talking about temps in the 20s, I couldn't shut him up. It was all over. We got back here to Dana Point, its drizzling, colder than Prescott, I said, see, look at this. but, but,
We drove over to Sedona and Oak Creek Village, we had been there before but they have expanded in the last six years too.

[LeeH]

Any visit to Prescott should include Watson's Lake.



My wife and daughter are also visible in this photo... very hard to find them!

[Rick Lee]

Traffic in Prescott sucks and they have cameras. I go once or twice a year to the great gun store there and it's a perfect stopover when riding from Wickenburg to Jerome and Sedona. But I don't think I could handle the weekend traffic.

[KNS]

I lived in Prescott for seven years and currently work in Prescott Valley (which is nothing like Prescott to put it nicely...). It is a nice town with fresh air and mild winters, this winter has been pretty warm.

Unfortunately, Prescott was "discovered" back in the '90s as a retirement destination and its growth exploded. Traffic can suck at times and, outside of Sun City, it is a little "Del Boca Vista" of retirees. I remember going into the Post Office on various occasions and finding it packed and me being the only one under fifty.

No, I'm not knocking seniors looking for a place to retire - it is a nice place to retire... but the growth has changed the character of the place. For seniors thinking of heading there, finding a primary care physician can be very difficult as more and more offices are choosing not to deal with Medicare (or accepting new patients under Medicare).

[BeyGon]

I thought I saw three gun stores there, I am not worried about insurance, I have real insurance, plus I think there is a VA Hospital there, I haven't been to one but am eligible. The hotel on the top of the hill we stayed at had FoxNews on TV in the bar. I like the place. I didn't notice old people as much as fat people, anyway, my wife didn't like it so it doesn't matter. She walked into the house in Costa Rica one day and said, if you stay here any longer you will have to have a different wife, I said if I stay without you I won't need a wife. We moved to Dana Point and sold the place.

[BlueSkyJaunte]

If fat people are your biggest concern, Prescott is 2 hrs from the ASU campus in Tempe.

Just sayin'.