Yuma is a very strategically located city in the Southwest. 3 hours to San Diego, 3 hours to Phoenix, 5 hours to LA and Vegas, it's located on the most important river in the southwest, it's right next to the California and Mexican border, close to Rocky Point/San Felipe beach towns, cheap medical/dental services nearby, the population isn't too small and the winters are perfect. It's definitely not for everyone, but it has a lot going for it so it will continue to grow much larger.
You’re a slow driver. I get to San Diego city limits in 2 hours. Phoenix in 2.5. Los Angeles in 4 and Vegas about the same. I don’t really “haul ass” either. 🫤 I agree about it being almost perfectly located. Just wish that I could go outside without melting from June-September. 🤦🏾♂️
Yuma, AZ to Big Bear, CA 4 hours. Yuma AZ to Flagstaff AZ, 4 hours. Yuma AZ to Alpine CA, 2 hours 😊. Definitely correct about it's perfect placement. Thought I'd add some snow into the equation, that is when it's around. ❤🎉
@@jerb9254I have never had a ticket, so there's that part. 😂 Today is only 108 but feels like 115. 😢 Beats last week's 120. I can definitely agree with you on the melting part. To hot to do anything outside between 7am to 9pm. Even 7 am is pushing it. At least that's what my body says and I've been in it almost my whole life. Drive safe and stay cool. 🎉
I started researching Yuma/Fortuna Foothills before Covid. I just moved here in March, loaded up my motorhome, bought a home in Fortuna Foothills, I absolutely love it. It's between 110 and 120 degrees right now. Get your outside activities done by 1030 a.m Thanks for featuring Yuma!
Yes, when you live in the desert, especially in summer, you have to become just like all the other desert animals. Stay cool in the daytime and become active at sundown, or shortly after sunrise. Just like our rattle snakes and lizards. And, yes, after a few years living here, you will also develop some "reptilian skin"!! LOL. So, be aware of that, it's part of the deal, and no amounts of creams and moisturizers will help you!! And, just like a snake, you will occasionally shed some skin, if you get too much sun!! Heck folks, we've had "global warming" down here for the past 10,000 years; so, we desert critters are pretty used to it by now!! LOL ;D
Yes, it's "impossible" if you live in a tin house with a swamp cooler in a trailer park, but if in a 5 million buck "mansion" it's no problemo!! We are in neither of those but have a very good a/c system, and we pay for it in summer an average of 4 to 5 hundred per month from June through September! ;D@@vectorvictor5699
We are thinking of a spot in The Foothills too - this is after 3 way too cold winters in our RV in The South (GA, FL & AL etc). Our friend lives there and we have spent two Christmas holidays there - definitely warmer than the panhandle of Florida.
I've said it before and I'll say it again...I really appreciate you giving us the grand tour of Arizona. I live in AZ, but I don't know if I'll ever be able to visit these places, so I really love that you take us there. Thanks!!
I love Yuma. I live in the foothills outside the city. Lots of people love the weather. I love it. I have A/C and a pool. My pool water was 92° today. It's not for everyone .
key words there, "not for everyone"; that's why it's still nice!!! Best "friend" we have here in AZ is that the summer weather, it keeps most of the riff raff out of our state, to overpopulate it more than it already is, and totally f' it up like Cali, and most of the north and eastern states, ....except for the illegals of course!! ;D
I live in Yuma, yes the summers are brutal but I figure that’s the price we pay for year round good weather along with mild winters. We don’t get crazy weather like in the Midwest or the East Coast. Btw our airport isn’t anything special with the exception of Brewers Restaurant and Sports Bar located inside.
I enjoyed your video. But was surprised you didn’t mention crossing into Mexico to take advantage of the low dental costs and drug prices. Thousands of people cross the border each day to take advantage of this opportunity.
Don't forget to stop at Dateland for a shake. Yuma is beautiful and diverse. The drive down to San Luis is beautiful as you go through the citrus groves. Also tour Yuma Territorial Prison.
This was a great little video. My ex’s family lives out in Yuma and their relatives live across the border in Mexico. Thanks for taking your time to do this one.
@12:08 you are on the end of my street. Very great and accurate video. You touched on all the points of the trek from 602 to 928. I spent about 20 years in PHX, Scottsdale, Tempe, Maricopa, Florence etc.. And then i moved to Yuma about 10 years ago. I love it. Yeah it's hot, but its the same hot as Phoenix. When it's 116 in PHX, and 120 degrees in Yuma its not exactly fun to play outside. But every state has a pluses and minuses. I always say i would rather burn than freeze. I spent 24 years in Wisconsin and after migrating to AZ i never looked back. When a prisoner escapes Alcatraz, it's rare they would ever purposely return
I just this week made my first ever road trip from Phoenix to Yuma following almost this exact route and your video is a perfect video postcard to share with my friends! This is exactly it as it was. Thank you!
Very very informative, enjoy your channel. I'm 67, Native Californian,, and yes, unfortunately, I'm being priced out of my home state. Have always liked Az tho, and live in Lake Havasu for a short while in the 90's. Have seen more of Az than Calif. On vacations. You provide valuable information for those of who Need to move due to prices. Thank you .
Jeff, good one to show the diverse nature of this state we love, from the north to the south in particular. From hot dry moonscape in Yuma to the Flagstaff area where it snows "like a banshee" in winter, and you can fly fish in the summer!! Yes, Yuma is not for everyone but if you like sun it's your place, I imagined Scandinavians from Minnesota love it and find their way to those trailer parks everywhere to get out of the blizzards and floods and other stuff the far north has to offer. Notice one other glaring thing there folks, no homeless, and mostly clean neat streets. Why, cuz it's too hot here that's why so if you are in the East, or Cali, and tired of the vibe there, a place like this may be your cup of tea. But if young maybe not for the reasons Jeff mentioned, no jobs and nothing to do, unless you like the outdoors all year long. Note, even in Phoenix and Tucson the homeless are everywhere, cuz the "do-Gooders" are protecting them, helping them, feeding them, even providing drugs too, and now they are sooo f'ing worried about the poor homeless getting heat stroke this summer, well it's the desert folks, isn't it? LOL. :D
OK I moved to Yuma but I’m not here all year round. I came from Huntington Beach California talk about two extremes Huntington Beach California is probably one of the coolest areas in America never gets too hot always beach weather to the extreme heat of Arizona. However, it’s really only in tolerable from June to the end of August, I live in a mobile home park and there’s night and day as far as people in the winter the park swells up from a few hundred2000s and they all come or 80% of them come from Canada and it’s like a playground for the older Canadians there’s all kinds of stuff to do golfing pickle ball swimming of course Nice recreational area lots to do so other than the four months of extreme heat it’s actually pretty nice but I can’t stay there in the middle of summer. I go back to the beach and then come back in end of September October, but the place is growing and it’s not a terribly bad place to live. People are pretty nice OK that’s my take.
Most of the land you see "squatters" on is probably run by the Bureau of Land Management which, for the most part, allows free camping for 14 days until you must move 25 miles away ... for another 14 days, and the cycle repeats. I typically bounce between 3 BLM areas along the California, Arizona border and use Yuma as my base for supplies of food, water, gas, propane and sewage/garbage disposal. Fortuna Foothills is a nice subdivision with services available closer to Interstate 8.
Yes, an "extremely rare" instance of the U.S. government spending our tax dollars wisely (and not trying to buy student democrat votes with college loan forgiveness, for just one of many examples now), by providing nice camping grounds on public lands all over the country, particularly in the west with the BLM, as mentioned here.
I wouldn't call the winter residents/nomads "squatters". When I lived and worked in the Yuma (foothills) area for a number of years, I realized that the economy of the area was enriched by the winter visitors. Some people live in the Long Term Visitors areas but many of the folks/friends I met, do as you do, moving between a few areas. I'm glad that you found the Yuma area comfortable.
@@shelleywalker6225 yes, "squatters" have a different connotation, from legal camping, Jeff, it's called illegal trespass into another's resident. Some guy in Texas got shot dead when discovered by the legal resident recently, for squatting; so it's a pretty dangerous activity too!! LOL ;D
really not that bad try being in New Jersey in the summer when it's 92° in 100% humidity and then the winter you freeze your ass off Arizona's pretty nice
It's a "dry heat" and so is your oven at 350 degrees!! The beauty of our beloved AZ is just expressed by you, so please you all, just stay away from us, year round!! ;D
Litchfield Park was named because a Goodyear tire company use to buy cotton for the Bias Ply Tires. This was way before steel belted radicals. A Big wig who had the last name Litchfield founded Litchfield field Park. Just down the road from Litch field park is a city called GOODYEAR. It had GOODYEAR AEROSPACE there. One of the Goodyear Blimps was stored here too.
First of all, the temps in Phoenix right now are higher than Yuma(this Sunday, Phoenix will be about 9 degrees higher than Yuma). I’m sorry but I get tired of everyone saying that Yuma is so much hotter. Your comment that Yuma is typically 120 degrees in July and August is false. Also, you should learn how to pronounce Proving Grounds. It rhymes with Moving! I’m pretty sure there aren’t many more indigenous trees in Phoenix as opposed to southwest Arizona. Phoenix metro has planted trees. Also, you comment about people in RV parks being “squatters”. Come on. They are paying for their space. And a lot of Quartzsite camping is LTVA which you pay for a permit. At least these people are not living in tents on the street like Phoenix. You really should spend more time in an area before making all these assumptions. But honestly I didn’t expect anymore from a video with Yuma in it. We Yumans love it!
omg you hit it right on the nail, temp can reach around 120 in the summer, i was BORN in Yuma so this brings back memories for me, im sorry but i got emotional. miss Yuma very much. we left in 1996,
if you have not been to the federal prison you should check it out, also during the dust bowl the people from oklahoma would cross into california thru yuma. alot were not allowed to inth calif. so they settled in yuma, small part of the older area of town so it got the name okey town.
I don't think it gets quite that hot. Probably an exaggerated reading, or a reading under direct sun. I've seen 115 in the shade for the high but 110-112 was most common during midsummer days.
My Godmother was from Yuma, Arizona. She loved it as a kid. She would tell me stories. I have been there and all I remember it just being HOT! during the summer. We would travel through there when I was a kid on our way to El Paso, Texas where my grandmother lived.
I was in Cabo Mexico a few days ago and barely survived even though it was below 90. I cannot imagine how people survive in a 120 degree temperature like this place lol.
@@shirlzitting647 Yes, we had our first monsoon rain yesterday, very cool in many ways, hailed a bit and got temps way down to about 70, for a few moments. Today it's about 99 in Oro Valley at 11 am, 7-18!! LOL
Space Age and Palms Inn in Gila Bend are mint and totally recommend--been staying there for 25 years. Also, Little Italy italian food in Gila Bend is a 10, try the gourmet pizza. Owners are from Sicily and are great people! Edit: Little Italy
Little Italy in Gila Bend is worth a stop!! Wellton - you missed half the town - the half south of the interstate. Coyote Wash is a golf course community of a couple hundred new homes. As a matter of fact, Wellton has two golf courses.
I remember Gila Bend back in they day. Yuma ain't no joke dogg. of course you got Jack in the Krack. San Luis gets a little sketchy on the south side.but after a couple of Modelos, its starts to look like paradise. i can dig it though.i'm diggin' it.
i grew up in Yuma. i was just there in September. The opportunity for young people just isn't there. my brothers and i all moved to different parts of the country. and the cost of living is sky high. thanks for the video.
There are not too distant lakes upstream on the Colorado and nearby sand dunes for off-roading activities which is a very popular sport for the locals. You make it seem like there's nothing to do here, Jeff. Many hate the heat in Yuma, but really, it's only a couple degrees warmer on average than Phoenix because of the lower elevation. Also Yuma doesn't get much sand storms like Phoenix does or the brunt of the monsoonal floods like in Tucson. It's also closer to the Pacific ocean and Gulf of California than Phoenix for those wishing to visit various beaches.
Yes. Havasu and Parker nearby. Plus the Dunes and sea of Cortez Mexico towns. Plus close to San Diego. As far as things to do daily in Yuma. I would say go to brewery, possibly play golf, shop at Walmart, walk around downtown at night, but if I miss some things please let me know. This is all I know at this point about Yuma.
@@LivinginArizona They’re referring to Martinez and Mitry Lake. Two large lakes, and both only about 15 minutes north of Yuma (along the Colorado River)
I made a comment on one of your videos about 3 or 4 months ago. I was mentioning the area's that are on this list. That video was about places to not live and dangerous areas in AZ. My parent's moved us to the middle of no where. The town is now a ghost town called Hyder. We would have to be bussed to Sentinel Elem. I was in the 5th grade in the 70's. When I was in the 7th or 8th grade, we went to school in Dateland. I could never understand why my parents would move to a place like Hyder. My dad worked as a mechanic for farm equipment. When we lived in Hyder, my parents would have to go to Phx or Yuma if we needed anything. I think I'm going to finish watching this video in a while since I need to get off the computer. I'm going to copy and paste the comment on here since I commented about some of the hidden places in some of those areas.
@@LivinginArizona I would love that. Even though my parents moved us to the middle of nowhere, I have very fond memories of Hyder and going to Sentinel Elementary. The little gas station by Sentinel I use to really like one of the owners son Ruben Conde. When we would go to swim at a groups compound we met Elect Joel and the women.
I should mention that if you go to Aqua Caliente which is on the road to Hyder and I think it's also a ghost town now too. If you go there, go in the day time. That's because I know first hand that some crazy things goes on where the cemetery is. Which is on the beginning part of the road you turn on. There was some heebee jeebee things that went on. People would rob the graves and they were taking silver and turquoise out of the headstones. We never noticed anything during the daytime, but at night, crazy things happened. But, it is pretty cool to see.
Yuma is hotter than Phoenix in the summer as it is now. There is a large military presence there as the Army has the Yuma Proving Grounds which is a place where someone me soldiers went there to accumulate themselves to hot weather in Iraq 🇮🇶 before they were sent there. Both the Army and Marine Corps do use Yuma Proving Grounds, there is also an Air Force there but it must be on the other side of Yuma. There is a Wal-Mart now in Parker, Arizona, Lake Havasu City, and Yuma too. When I lived out there with my family in Big River, California across from Parker and we would get TV stations out of Yuma and it also served the Imperial Valley and Imperial County too. It certainly does fill up in the Fall/Winter months as the snowbirds as they do come there to enjoy the nice weather and escape the cold winters where they are from. Yuma is huge on agriculture especially in the winter time when the winter lettuce crop comes into season and is ready to be picked and sent to grocery stores.
My uncle lved in Yuma. Ok, he is dead now but with my story here why I make my comment is that, he was the only one in Yuma, who had an indoor fullsize swimmingpool 😅 and a Finnish hot sauna 😂 People there told him that you are crazy for having a indoor swimmingpool and also a sauna. Ok, after those people like his neighbors could not swim in their pools being so hot, they wanted to swim in his pool. He was from Finland where they do have indoor swimmingpools so he got the idea from that. Maybe someone, who reads tis and know about that private house with that pool so now you know the story why this man was he only one having a fullize swimmingpool in his house. I did visit him 2 times and wow, it was great to swim in that pool being inside where the temp. Was perfect ❤😊
I have a question I'm moving to Arizona and I fell in love with bisbee, and I was going to buy a small house and it fell through but I seen a beautiful house in Ajo that I really love. Is there anything there or should I just stay in Bisbee?
Ajo is a tiny town, far away from any of the major cities. I would suggest Cornville or Cottonwood. Close to Sedona and Flagstaff, not far from Phoenix.
Bisbee has better and cooler weather year-round, being at 5,000 feet, but it is really out in the middle of freaking nowhere, closest big Walmart or Costco is in Tucson, about 2 hours away!! But small shopping markets nearby by for essentials, and lots of bars, where all the old hippies and Hells Angels bikers hang out!! LOL
@@ronschlorff7089 it does, but I was just seeing if it's worth it because I can get a really beautiful house in Ajo that would be a half $1 million in bisbee, but it's 140,000 or I could live in Bisbee in a smaller OK house I have never even been to Idaho. I just saw the house and fell in love with it.
I’m not quite sure why anyone would live in San Luis or Somerton. Not great places. So Ag is the main economy here, followed by MCAS and the Yuma Proving Grounds. Big military presence between the two. I’ve been in Yuma proper for the last 10 years. It has grown for the better. Anyways….thanks for sharing.
Question - how do you protect your paint on cars? Do they make a coating or some protectant from the sun. What I see often are cars that have paint jobs completely destroyed by the sun. I have a second home in phoneix and thinking of relocating and this thing keeps entering my mind.
We don't. Any clear coating slowly gets worn off and looks awful. It's better if you can garage your car but many homes don't have garages, only carports, and most parking lots aren't covered.
Wash/wax often, have dark tinted windows, sunshade, but a carport/garage is the best option. If leaving your car outside long term, use a fabric cover.
@@tlfreek Yes, that's about your only option. Get it detailed often as the dry heat makes everything crack. You'll also want some kind of dashboard cover.
@@johnnyh3653 Yes, and a once beautiful clean city, that's now fu*ked up after years of democrat gov't rule! Just like most of Cali and Portland are now!
enfoca las paredes y pintar las casas de blanco con cal viva como los pueblos blanco ANDALUSE que son el origen es la misma arquitecturas y los mismo vaqueros la raza de vacas y raza de caballo
For a completely honest perspective, you should have mentioned the crime rate in Yuma as well as the massive issues with illegals which has caused a major issue with the healthcare system.
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Also, did you say "proving grounds" but pronounced it "proWving grounds"? What planet ARE you from? Proving rhymes with moving. Why does EVERYONE know this, but you???
