A UK travel writer’s impressions of Arizona.
but look for a downtown, an East Village, a Vieux Carré, a shopping centre or boho neighbourhood, in vain. All the shops, the bars, the street life have been, as it were, delegated to Scottsdale, 12 miles north-east.
Keep that in mind when you are shopping for a vacation home.
January 12, 2008 by Realtor John Wake
John Wake
Born in Phoenix, trained as an economist and now a licensed Realtor, John uses hard data from the real estate market to help his clients -- buyers and sellers of residential real estate -- uncover their best choices for finding the right home or finding a buyer for their current home.
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