Anything positive about Yuma? (Flagstaff, Prescott: house prices, scorpions, casinos)

[elfyum]

Originally Posted by Haidawarrior

I will give you a tour MAB - stop trying make this town sound like a frigging paradise - this armpit and yes it is the armpit of Arizona - the education system is so bad and yes it is well documented - the low wage jobs - I mean come on - you pay someone here 6.75 as a starting wage and perhaps two years down the road you might be making 7.00 an hour -what about the gangs here MAB -what about the near kidnapping of the fifteen year old girl just last week -the kidnapping and murder of that woman last month!!! What world are you living in? Go outside and smell the pesticide in the air and tell me that this palce is so wondeful. Grow up!!!!

Wow - is Yuma the only city you've ever been to? A kidnapping? A murder? Lordy lordy - do you live in Mr Rogers Neighborhood or WHAAAAT??? Get real! Turn on the news in ANY big or not even so big metro - murder, rape, parents killing their kids - it goes ON & ON...ONE murder? Me thinks you should take your own advice - grow up! - pull your head outta the sand - or anywhere else you may have it... (And by the way, if you didn't think Yuma would be HOT based on it's location, you need to really wake up to the world around you. I assume you don't think Miami gets HOT in the summer either, right? )

[DestinationYuma]

Elfyum... preach on, my brother.

[Old Surrender]

As that song goes "I've been everywhere man ... "

Bay City, Killeen, Louisville, Leavenworth, Lawrence, Kansas City, Tampa, Aurora, Denver, Fargo, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Yuma ... by far the worst, even compared to a few ****holes on that list. Small-town mentality, big-city crime, low-paying jobs, and pathetic schools. (Got a college degree? You can be a teacher! Nevermind it's a useless degree and you have no teaching exp.) It's motto should be "Expect Less," expcept for stench, crappy service (which stems from the slave wages paid down there), snowbirds, criminals on the city council, shortages (vets and human docs), and overall uselessness ... unless you want some meth.
How 'bout them Scorpions?

Left about 4 months ago and couldn't be happier. Lived there 7-7-05 to 12-19-06 ... not that I was keeping track.

[jaada]

Originally Posted by Old Surrender

As that song goes "I've been everywhere man ... "

Bay City, Killeen, Louisville, Leavenworth, Lawrence, Kansas City, Tampa, Aurora, Denver, Fargo, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Yuma ... by far the worst, even compared to a few ****holes on that list. Small-town mentality, big-city crime, low-paying jobs, and pathetic schools. (Got a college degree? You can be a teacher! Nevermind it's a useless degree and you have no teaching exp.) It's motto should be "Expect Less," expcept for stench, crappy service (which stems from the slave wages paid down there), snowbirds, criminals on the city council, shortages (vets and human docs), and overall uselessness ... unless you want some meth.
How 'bout them Scorpions?

Left about 4 months ago and couldn't be happier. Lived there 7-7-05 to 12-19-06 ... not that I was keeping track.

hahahah!! totally agreed with you funny post!

[txbatri]

Yuma, is slowly over run my mexican and all doctor, lawyer, teacher and small business owner have move on. So good luck with your kids school and medical emergency or yeah forget tell you mexican gangs are serious problem there.

Also there alot of folks disappeared and their body end up in desert area

[azloafer]

"Also there are a lot of folks disappearing and their body ends up in the desert."

Hey, that could mean more houses for sale and better prices!

[lady babs]

My Mother was born in Yuma, and I was born in Yuma. My family has lived here for many years. I can help answer any questions you may have about Yuma and the vacinity.

[Leana76]

I just got back from Yuma, because my former boyfriend who lives there just broke up with me, because I found out that he already had a girlfriend.

So, I would have to say that Yuma sucks!!!! It's too damn hot, he lived too far away from town, and nothing much to do, but go to bars there. That place sucks. So, I'll never go there again...

[BlueStone]

...Yuma is only a few hours from the Pacific!

[sohnnenstrahl]

MAB, Sounds like you live in or near College Park. We just rented there for a year and a half while my husband was building our house. We lived on 26th Street. We had some really nice neighbors. We used to walk to the Tamarac grocery store and back, and sometimes to that park in Desert Ridge. We also had a fantastic landlord.

OTHERS: Another plus about Yuma: in over 15 years of living here, the very best family doctor M.D. we have found is Dr. Jorge Cochran, who, while he could work in Yuma if he chose, practices in Algodones, a hop, skip and a jump away, and can diagnose and treat either allopathic-style with the best of them, or holistically with the best of them, and even makes house calls across the border when needed. I don't work for him; this is not an ad. But if we move away from here, we will honestly have to pray for God to send someone as good as he to help us when we're in a pickle.

Another plus about Yuma: Midwife Marsha Keechler. If you want to give birth naturally, and do all the work, with a total medical pro at your side, or if you want a soothing voice while getting a c-section by an ob.gyn., or anything in between, there is one lady we will pay to fly to our next birth, should we move away by then. She currently works with Women's Health Specialists. And, no, we don't work for them, either. I'm just being real specific about some things we love about Yuma.

Come to think of it, almost every time we mention a plus about Yuma, it will probably be a person or particular group, since getting to know one another seems to be what makes a place for us. Oh, we do love getting to know the nature: Our children name the bugs (before they kill them, if they are biters), we learn what desert weeds we can eat or use in bouquets, we watch wild rabbits, enjoy the sunsets, etc. And we do love the Yumaesque things to do, like desert camping, the water-squirting animals at Friendship Park, the Territorial Museum and Main Street, etc. But what cranks up the value of the place for us is getting to know people and sharing what we have and know while benefitting from what they share. Actually, wherever we have lived, this is how it goes.