Why is everyone moving to Arizona? That's a really good question because a lot of people
are the Grand Canyon State has been one of the most moved to states in the U.S for decades
throughout the state's history Arizona has been a landing spot for people wanting a new
life since the 1870s census Arizona has gained double digits in population at least every time
the census people pull out their calculators or or abacuses depending on the decade obviously a
majority of the people moving to Arizona are finding Landing spots in the various suburbs
around the big cities in today's video we're looking at the 10 best suburbs in Arizona now
we got our ranking by looking at crime rate poverty rate Traffic schools and amenities
amenities means things like they got a lot of stores entertainment gas stations things
like that I'm also going to include some rankings from niche.com niche.com ranks it
like the best place to retire best place for families things like that and I'll include
that so you get an idea of who should move there got it get it good let's take a look
number 10 Carefree Arizona besides sounding like a great place to live it is a pretty nice place
to retire niche.com ranks them the ninth best place to retire in Arizona some of the other
rankings are about the city but overall in the state of Arizona this is one of the best place
to retire which is fitting because the town is called carefree and that just screams retire
here and golf Carefree has a population of almost 3 700 residents and it's on the north side of the
Phoenix Metro Area side note in case you don't understand what metro area is it's a city that's
normally a major city and the metro area includes that and all the surrounding communities that
share a border and different Industries with that major city I had someone email me and let me know
I didn't know what I was talking about because San Diego is not a metro area it's actually a
city which it is a city but it's also the San Diego metro area I know I shouldn't assume but
I assume that person was in the seventh grade or just wandered out of the Amazon after being
raised by an uncontacted tribe Carefree is a little expense and like most places that
show up on a positive list the cost of living is almost 50 percent higher than the national
average their crime rates about 80 percent below the national average which is outstanding and if
you want to buy some real estate here a decent home starts around 600 000 and goes all the way
up into the two and three million dollar area so it's a little pricey but it's a great place to
live you like to golf they have at least six golf courses surrounding the town and one in the town
number nine Paradise Valley Arizona Paradise Valley is in the Phoenix Metro area just north of
Downtown Phoenix the city has a motto that goes there's a reason we call this Valley Paradise
what is that reason is it the golf courses they have a couple in town and a bunch in the area
Paradise Valley is also home to eight full-service Resorts making it one of Arizona's best tourist
destinations Paradise Valley had a population of almost 13 000 in 2020 and right now it's probably
a little bit over thirteen thousand their crime rates 34 below the national average and they got
a cost of living that is about 127 percent above niche.com ranks them as the third best suburb to
raise a family in the Phoenix area so this one for I'd say about 99 of us is unrealistic when
it comes to home prices there's nothing below a million dollars here and I would say a majority of
them are over 2.5 million don't get me wrong these are beautiful homes I mean some of them are like
20 million dollars 16 million dollars I'm looking at and they are absolutely beautiful homes they're
just painfully expensive if you could find one for below 1.5 million dollars it's like a unicorn
number eight Gilbert Arizona staying in the Phoenix Arizona area we have the town of Gilbert
Gilbert is a good sized suburb southeast of Downtown Phoenix they have about 275
000 residents a little bit below that but they're getting close they might have passed
that already in 2021 they had 273 000. Gilbert is an outstanding place if you want to raise a
family actually niche.com ranks them as the best suburb to raise a family in the Phoenix
area Gilbert is on the affordable side they've got a cost of living that is only like five
percent above the national average which isn't bad and you can actually find homes here that
are decent livable for about 350 to 500 000 350 000 is kind of rare you're probably looking at
to buy a decent place somewhere over 400 000 to 600 000 that's probably the target area you're
looking for they don't have many that are over a million dollars but they do have some there that
you know they're getting up there they have great schools and a crime rate right that's
50 below the national average so those two things together make it a great place to raise a family
even though it is affordable place to live they got plenty of golf courses in and around
Gilbert and I would say about 75 percent of the homes have a swimming pool when you live in the
Phoenix Metro area or all of Nevada and Arizona you pretty much need a swimming pool unless I
don't know you're half camel or something like that you can probably get by without having one
number seven Oro Valley Arizona Oro Valley is where all the cool people live at least that's
what a friend told me he also told me the hills above Oro Valley is where the Lost Dutchman's Gold
is I was like I thought that was outside of Apache Junction and he said no that is where the mine
is the gold is hidden near Oro Valley now this was before Google so I trusted him and here's a
lesson never trust a man that drinks grain alcohol with his dinner he made the whole story up but Oro
Valley is very real and it's a great place to live niche.com ranks them as the second best suburb in
the Tucson area just so you know I have called this Oral Valley so many times while trying to
record this which if it was called Oral Valley it paints a completely different picture of the place
Oro Valley has a good mix of younger families and retirees their crime rate is about 46 percent
below the national average their schools get high marks and they have a cost of living that's 15
above the national average it's above but that's not terrible if you want to buy a home here a
decent one's going to start off around 375 5000 the nicer ones are around five hundred thousand on
up this is definitely not a bad suburb to live in they have plenty of golf and resorts in Oro Valley
number six Chandler Arizona Chandler Arizona is southeast of Downtown Phoenix and this suburb
Prides itself on its many parks including the Desert Breeze Park which has a vintage train
ride you can go on the desert breeze railroad it's called it's also not too far from the lost
Dutchman State Park which has nothing to do with the mine or the gold it's that's
just what it's called this is a really nice suburb in the Phoenix Metro area so much so
that niche.com has them at the number one spot when it comes to Great suburbs to live in in
the Phoenix Metro Area Chandler has a crime rate that is 12 percent lower than the national average
which is outstanding and their cost of living is only eight percent above the national average so
you know really not a bad place to live if you want to get a house here they start around 400
000 maybe a little bit less maybe a little bit higher those are the decent ones and
they go up if you really want a good house you're probably looking about 450 to 500
000 we'll get you in something really nice but they start around four hundred thousand
number five Scottsdale Arizona if you haven't heard about Scottsdale Arizona you're not in
Arizona or you aren't anywhere near the retirement age Scottsdale is northeast
of Downtown Phoenix and it overflows with the retirees this has been a hot spot for
the Over the Hill Gang for decades in 2022 niche.com raided Scottsdale as the best
place to retire in the United States not just Arizona but the entire country Scottsdale has
plenty of condos apartments and places for retirees they also have a crime rate that's
12 percent lower than the national average and the cost of living that's 22 percent
above when it comes to real estate you might be able to find something around 550
000 maybe 600 000 but a majority of the homes are going to be like 750 000 on up into the Millions
number four Litchfield Park Arizona Litchfield Park is on the other side of the Aquafina River
from Downtown Phoenix now if you've ever seen the Aquafina River you would understand using
the word River they're being very generous every time I've seen this place it is dry as a bone
Litchfield Park is just south of Luke Air Force Base and it has a population of just around 7
000 residents it was six thousand nine hundred and twenty twenty one so I'm sure they're over
it by now because it's a popular place to live how could it not be they got some golf courses
they got a dry stretch of land posing as a river to be fair I'm sure during the rainy
season some water runs through there but honestly every time I've been by there the
amount of water that's going through that thing uh you probably jump over without even running
starts like a glorified Creek but it's big enough to keep a river there it just doesn't
have one that's Arizona for you Litchfield Park has some really good stats their crime rate 60
percent below the national average and their cost living is only 15 percent above the Nash
average when you look at the real estate you could find something pretty easy here for four hundred
thousand dollars and it's not a bad place to live there's several of them like that that's kind of
odd even have some other ones that might need a little work that are going for 350 so it's not
horrible the stats seem like a place where it'd be much more expensive but it's not and that's
why niche.com ranks them number three for the best suburb to buy a home in the Phoenix area
number three Queen Creek Arizona Queen Creek Arizona sounds like it should be called Queens
Creek and to be perfectly honest I'm reading it right now it says Queen Creek but I gotta
tell you I've been struggling not to call it Queens Creek this is a strange place they have
good stats and reasonable real estate but they also have a ton of homes for sale like way more
than almost any place in Arizona when you see that there's usually something wrong with the
neighborhood I don't see what's wrong with the neighborhood I mean they have a new stretch
of road Meridian Road now goes to German Road maybe that's chasing everyone out gonna bring
a bad element in who knows they did have one of those signs I thought was a little ridiculous of
a bunch of office workers and maybe politicians I don't know who they were but they're holding
up signs on the road says teamwork gets things done like they should get an award for this it's
like you people go back to your air conditioning you don't get to celebrate this the people that
celebrate it are the guys that poured that Asphalt in 120 degree weather in Queen Creek
Arizona Queen Creek has a crime rate that is 27 percent below the national average and their cost
of living is only 30 13 above the national average they have Great Schools housing low
unemployment everything's good here I'm not sure why everyone's selling their homes but I will tell
you niche.com does rank them as number four in the best suburb to buy a home in the Phoenix area
number two Anthem Arizona Anthem Arizona is North of Downtown Phoenix and it's pretty much the last
good-sized city that you'd get to before you reach out into the desert of Arizona they're ranked as
the sixth best suburb to buy a home in the Phoenix area now number six doesn't sound that high but
they're also the seventh best place to raise a family in the Phoenix Metro area and they're
the 10th best suburb in the Phoenix Metro area one thing that makes this place so appealing is
it's not right there in the middle of everything it's kind of outside the metro area I mean it's
at the edge it's not outside the metro area but it's pretty close to it you can still gather kind
of that small town vibe from a place like this they have great schools and they got about 22
000 people that enjoy a crime rate that's 50 percent lower than the national average their cost
living isn't terrible it's only 17 percent above not bad at all employment numbers are good next to
no poverty all in all it's a great place to live and they're number two all right before we get to
number one uh I'm not gonna pump my other channel or anything like that I just want to stop and tell
everyone thank you for watching my videos and my channels I really appreciate it it means the world
to me I hope you all learn a little something and are entertained all right on to number one
and number one Catalina Foothills Arizona Catalina Foothills is a suburb but it's also
an unincorporated Community North of Tucson in Prima County it is surrounded by Foothills Golf
Courses and the Tucson mall so since this is on the edge of the town and it has the
Foothills right behind it it sort of has this rural desert feel to it all the properties are
I should say most the properties have a little space between them too they're not right on top
of each other a lot of the areas in Arizona especially around the cities they grade the
land down and they put up these grids of new housing projects or new housing areas these
places they kind of follow the land so it it's just kind of it's different well I shouldn't
say different it's just kind of nice it's a break from what most of Arizona's got going
on in the populated areas Catalina Foothills have a cost living that's about 27 above the
national average and their crime rates 47 below the national average so that's pretty good their
schools their schools are great at a plus which is outstanding very low in employment housing's
a little up there it's not crazy but it's up there I mean most homes here start off around 550 to 600
000 and they get up into the millions but they're usually good-sized house on a good sized lot so
you're getting a little something for that extra money niche.com says they are the absolute best
suburb to live in in Arizona not just the Tucson area they're number one in the state that is great
all right that's today's video hope you guys enjoyed it hope you got some
information out of it now go out have a great day and be nice to each other