Posted: 1/25/2010 12:18:00 AM EDT
| Hey gentlemen, we are thinking of moveing to payson, mainly to get out of the city tell me the good the bad the ugly on liveing in payson. |
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Inlaws have a cabin there, I really like it..... beats the big city plus your close enough to go to phoenix for shopping or what have you..... I thinks its a little more expensive there for housing... I have noticed it gets busy in the summer.. especially on holiday week ends.... Quoted:
Hey gentlemen, we are thinking of moveing to payson, mainly to get out of the city tell me the good the bad the ugly on liveing in payson. |
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retire or?? kids in school?? I know I live in a small town now and there is drugs, small amount of crime. same type stuff as a big city but FAR less.... Alot of local small town politics......... There is less for kids to do in a small town but I would rather raise them in the small town... Im sure the ecomony has hit payson as well, I do see alot of houses for sale, I dont know how much of a hit they took, I would think it would be the time to buy.... Quoted:
thanks! we were looking at buying a house / or renting a home but might start of w/ an apartment we'll see we bolth want to get the "ef" out of the city. and live up there in peace ya know!! any more advise on payson would be appriciated.  |
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The highway through Payson gets very busy on most Fridays and Sundays as it's one of the main arteries that leads to Pinetop-Lakeside, Show Low, etc. I wouldn't let that deter ya though. I've never lived there, but I have driven through Payson a LOT to get to aforementioned towns. Seems like a nice medium sized town to live in, and since it's only an hour's drive to the valley, running down to get better shopping is always an option. |
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Ahhhh, Payson.
Left there after high school in 86. Very rarely go back. It was a great place to grow up back then. It sure has grown up a lot. It has to be a better place to raise kids than in the valley. Can you make a living up there? What kind of work do you do? |
| We have about two years to go then the wife and I are headed North. She came to the valley at 18 from Mass (yeah, she was a liberal, now a gun-toting conservative - get em young boys an train em right!) and really misses the seasonal changes and the chance for some snow. Ok, so she has put up with me for 20 years now, including two jaunts to the sandbox, so its time I pay her back.and Payson is on the short list. We finally had a chance to go to Chama NM, which makes Payson look huge, and my east coast city gal fell in love with trees, open spaces, clean air, small town hospitality and the sights and sounds of a coal burning steam train on rock cut canyon walls (my grandparents were raised there, narrow guage railroads are in my blood). However, being disabled means that I cant do all the things I used to do and living in deep snow country is probably not a good idea for us. So, North East Arzona is the wise choice, just shy of the snow line. Now, if I can only win the lottery to afford enough land for a huge run for my dogs and a 10 station shooting range, Id be in hog heaven. |
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Payson's a great town - I used to live there - gf at the time was a dispatcher for the PD.
Welcome to Mayberry. Seriously tho - I have some very good friends on the police force up there. I've even got to play bad guy for the SWAT team. It's a good time. I liked living there. It's small town enough that you get to know everyone, or at least it seems like it. It's big enough that there's enough trouble to get in to. There's a walmart there, bashas and safeway. I'd like to live there again someday. You betcha. If nothing else, I like playing bad guy. (they never did let me go force on force with them tho - how sad) |
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well thier is dispatch jobs thier and me and my huney were interested in that we bolth have yrs of dipatch experiance so that was an option for us, and we are planning on haveing kids in about a year or too. Sounds like I would go for it. A good job would be all it would take for me to haul ass out of the valley. |
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I forgot Choad used to live there.
My oldest bro lives there with his wife. I like to go visit them in the summer. It really is a nice little town with just enough modern-day convenience. The main drawbacks are, as someone else mentioned, the rough weekend traffic on the Beeline (especiallly during the big rodeos they have) and everything seems to close early there. I'm a nightcrawler so that would get to me. But even so, the only thing that would really keep me from living there is the utter lack of desire to be near snow. |
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thanks alot gentlemen, we realy appriciate the feedback, if anyone can tell us more on the dispatching jobs that would be great also, were are the best places to camp and go shooting up there, as me and my huney get trigger happy! There is a pretty nice private range up there that's open to the public Saturdays. My bro used to RO at the range periodically. I see they have a website here It's been a few years since I've been up to visit, but it's a very friendly, enjoyable range. Definitely nothing fancy though; I'd say it's somewhat similar to PRG but on a smaller scale. |
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I live in Pine, 13 miles NorthWest of Payson. Payson is where we go to shop. I think the dispatching job your mentioned is with the Gila County Sheriff's Office. It is a high turnover job due to the pay scale, which really challenges one as to what that salary can afford in Payson as far as a home. As the real estate market is depressed one would think that this would be the time to buy. However it seems most who are trying to sell their 2nd getway homes are trying to sell them for what they paid for them, so as you might imagine the asking prices are unrealistically on the high side. They bought high when the economy was screaming along and they had a lot of discretionary income, now they're bailing since the eonomy tanked and they think they can get for their property what they paid for it. Couldn't be more wrong. The only real "industry" up here is Real Estate. Everyone knows someone in real estate. They will be the first to tell you that sales have been in the tank for a couple of years now, and in a normal time that would indicate a buyers market. Doesn't seem to be working out that way. As always, with real estate sales, the price is negotialble. Depends on how bad they want to cut their losses. One point of interest. The Gila County Tax Asseror did not change the property assessments based upon the market depression. They remain at unreasonably high assessment and one would be really challenged to get for their property what the assessor has it appraised at. They then tax you on that assessment.
The weather is truly 4 season stuff. Spring and Fall are to die for. Winter and summer have their typical challenges, especially if one has never lived in a moderately heavy snow climate. There are some water issues currently, but the town of Payson may get that resolved with SRP in light of the Cragen Reservior (formerly Blue Ridge) water becoming available to some of the communities up here. Great place for kids, IF they can find their own things to do in the forests surrounding the area. Not too much entertainment for the kids in light of the fact that Payson is primarily a retirement oriented community. I think the over 60 group out numbers the rest by 4 to 1. Old retired folks and young people often don't blend well as their interests are dipolar, but one certainly is dependant upon the other so they have to kind of get along and make concessions to each other. It's a "small" town with all the political trappings that are inherent in that , ie. small town politics. Very partisan and very vocal. Primarily still western conservative/religious ethic dominates but more and more liberal types are coming in under the radar and trying to change generations of hunting and fishing activity. Always just tell them when they get all upset with the elk and deer hunting, that we still go grocery shopping the old fashion way, and if it upsets their PETA mentality, they are free to take the same road out that brought them in. Guns? I don't know that many who DO NOT carry on their person or in their vehicles. See opencarry often up here. Like I said, still a lot of the western ethic up here. Plenty af areas to shoot . As was mentiojned in an earlier post, there is the Jim Jones Range south of Payson that is home to the Tonto Rim Sports Club, that manages the place. Membership is $75.00 a year, or else it is open to the public on Saturdays for $5.00 entry fee. 100,200,small/limited 300 yard covered ranges.plus restrooms. They have an archery course with targets on the property as well. You may want to take the step of spending a weekend up here in one of the motels and driving around the area to feel it out. Talk to some of the "locals" in any one of the older established cafes and they can give you a feel for place. has a lot of history and has a lot to offer, IF you are the outdoors type. Wish you the best if you decide to make the transition. |
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Every now and then I see that little paper from Globe and them Dispatcher/jail and deputy jobs are constantly in there....... Quoted:
I live in Pine, 13 miles NorthWest of Payson. Payson is where we go to shop. I think the dispatching job your mentioned is with the Gila County Sheriff's Office. It is a high turnover job due to the pay scale, which really challenges one as to what that salary can afford in Payson as far as a home. As the real estate market is depressed one would think that this would be the time to buy. However it seems most who are trying to sell their 2nd getway homes are trying to sell them for what they paid for them, so as you might imagine the asking prices are unrealistically on the high side. They bought high when the economy was screaming along and they had a lot of discretionary income, now they're bailing since the eonomy tanked and they think they can get for their property what they paid for it. Couldn't be more wrong. The only real "industry" up here is Real Estate. Everyone knows someone in real estate. They will be the first to tell you that sales have been in the tank for a couple of years now, and in a normal time that would indicate a buyers market. Doesn't seem to be working out that way. As always, with real estate sales, the price is negotialble. Depends on how bad they want to cut their losses. One point of interest. The Gila County Tax Asseror did not change the property assessments based upon the market depression. They remain at unreasonably high assessment and one would be really challenged to get for their property what the assessor has it appraised at. They then tax you on that assessment. The weather is truly 4 season stuff. Spring and Fall are to die for. Winter and summer have their typical challenges, especially if one has never lived in a moderately heavy snow climate. There are some water issues currently, but the town of Payson may get that resolved with SRP in light of the Cragen Reservior (formerly Blue Ridge) water becoming available to some of the communities up here. Great place for kids, IF they can find their own things to do in the forests surrounding the area. Not too much entertainment for the kids in light of the fact that Payson is primarily a retirement oriented community. I think the over 60 group out numbers the rest by 4 to 1. Old retired folks and young people often don't blend well as their interests are dipolar, but one certainly is dependant upon the other so they have to kind of get along and make concessions to each other. It's a "small" town with all the political trappings that are inherent in that , ie. small town politics. Very partisan and very vocal. Primarily still western conservative/religious ethic dominates but more and more liberal types are coming in under the radar and trying to change generations of hunting and fishing activity. Always just tell them when they get all upset with the elk and deer hunting, that we still go grocery shopping the old fashion way, and if it upsets their PETA mentality, they are free to take the same road out that brought them in. Guns? I don't know that many who DO NOT carry on their person or in their vehicles. See opencarry often up here. Like I said, still a lot of the western ethic up here. Plenty af areas to shoot . As was mentiojned in an earlier post, there is the Jim Jones Range south of Payson that is home to the Tonto Rim Sports Club, that manages the place. Membership is $75.00 a year, or else it is open to the public on Saturdays for $5.00 entry fee. 100,200,small/limited 300 yard covered ranges.plus restrooms. They have an archery course with targets on the property as well. You may want to take the step of spending a weekend up here in one of the motels and driving around the area to feel it out. Talk to some of the "locals" in any one of the older established cafes and they can give you a feel for place. has a lot of history and has a lot to offer, IF you are the outdoors type. Wish you the best if you decide to make the transition. |