Secret Town In Arizona Still Affordable - Camp Verde

Secret Town In Arizona Still Affordable - Today I went to this still affordable arizona town called Camp Verde!
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[@sergethepurge9425]

Give a THUMBS UP and SMALL COMMENT really helps the channel grow! Thank you so much!

[@mildbillhiccup844]

You should’ve talked to more actual locals. I don’t know who this guy is, but I don’t know a single person who lives here they would agree with anything he had to say about the affordability of this town. It is ridiculously expensive to live here, and the working-class people here are suffering because of it. Besides the historical facts, nothing this man told you is true.

[@virginiawolfe2581]

​@@mildbillhiccup844I was thinking, "He calls $200,000 cheap? I call $30,000 EXPENSIVE.

[@Mt.Everest.]

This guy is not a local! He is some transplant with too much time on his hands that went to the museums in the area. He is laughable. I am a native from Arizona and he is questionable at best

[@sergethepurge9425]

@@Mt.Everest. if you feel this way I’d do a vid with anyone who wants to “set the record straight” if you feel that way. Email [e-mail]

[@denise1176]

I’ve lived in Camp Verde and Rimrock for over 20 years and love it! I’ve always wondered what the Wingfield house looked like inside. I didn’t even know that rock with the petroglyphs existed. What road is it off of? I’d like to go see it. Camp Verde is a little too hot for me in the summer but the rest of the year it’s perfect. What’s really nice is the central location. You have Sedona, Prescott, Flagstaff, Strawberry/Pine all within an hour away. Unfortunately Camp Verde is no longer affordable. It seems home prices are up everywhere. Loved your video. Thank you.

[@RonOnTheRoad]

Thanks so much for watching! Glad you enjoyed it. CV is indeed an amazing place!

[@sergethepurge9425]

Thank you so much for watching and thank you for your comment!

[@verdedoodleduck]

Ron was great. Ha, you guys paddled right past me. We've had quite a few floods - hard to say what caused that jam. Thanks for the video!

[@RonOnTheRoad]

I’m always amazed at how floods change that river and the surrounding creeks from year to year. It’s such a cool place to live. I’ve been paddling that stretch for 40 years and am in awe every time. Thanks for watching!

[@verdedoodleduck]

@@RonOnTheRoad Yeah it's a pretty neat place to be. FYI that debris is a big danger to the houses along the river. Things get jammed up and the water level can get really high. I'm sure you've seen the banks it has carved and probably looked at some of the flood levels but the snags can cause a much higher rise (up to the irrigation ditches).

[@RonOnTheRoad]

@@verdedoodleduck I have. I’m surprised over the years that the city of CV hasn’t decided to clean up the rubble dam at the southern end of that pond. It’s just piles of broken concrete and old cars, logs and trash. It’s hazardous to travel at both high and low water, and a nasty debris catch. I think a concrete sluice in place of the rubble would go a long way to keeping properties safe on your stretch of the river. 👍🏼

[@sergethepurge9425]

Thank you for watching!

[@jonnymarr2x]

I'm a Simple man, when I see a new video from the SergeThePurge I click

[@sergethepurge9425]

@@jonnymarr2x that means a lot thank you!

[@heathers4x4]

I live in camp verde and love it! So many Indian ruins to explore and kayaking on the verde is a blast. But Ron, I heard you call the river a creek several times. You know better than that! Great expose’ overall. Fun fact: its where kingdom of the spiders was filmed

[@RonOnTheRoad]

Hi and thanks for watching! We were actually along Beaver Creek in the video until we got the kayaks out on the Verde River, just to clarify. And Kingdom of the Spiders is one of my favorites! One of the deleted scenes from the film was actually shot at the Wingfield House, as was a quick blink-and-you’ll-miss-it shot from the Sylvester Stallone movie Over the Top. Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@lostvisitor]

your obviously from some place else.

[@sergethepurge9425]

Thank you so much for watching!

[@mildbillhiccup844]

Take it from someone who actually lives here. Camp Verde is in no way shape or form affordable at all. My parents sold their house here and bought a house in the Prescott area with far less crime that is both bigger and newer for less. We do all of our shopping in either Cottonwood, which is 18 miles away or Prescott Valley , which is 40 miles away, even factoring in gas prices it is cheaper than shopping here by far. Crime is rampant in the area and the Marshals office is unwilling to anything about it, despite having someone on video driving my stolen truck they refused to press charges against him for lack of evidence. Do yourself a favor and avoid this town at all costs.

[@sergethepurge9425]

Well I appreciate the feedback. On paper and on a first impression it seems like a great and safe little town. I never felt unsafe while there, but if crime is rampant than I can imagine a local such as yourself being fed up with that. Ron is a local to the area as well and had a very positive view on it. I suppose I could also be a tale of two cities. I very much enjoyed camp verde, but none the less thank you for watching.

[@JonJon-ey8ns]

You are so right! High crime and very corrupt town government that refuses to enforce the codes! You can have a nice home, then the white trash next to you refuses to mow their grass all summer and bring in junk cars on their property, code enforcement does not exist except to collect money on building permits! Horrible place! Stay away!

[@aries5433]

A quick internet search shows that Camp Verde’s housing expenses are 44% higher than the national average and a crime rate higher than 70% of any town or city in AZ of any size.

[@neisei55]

Please stop with the "wow" - very hard to listen to 😊

[@sergethepurge9425]

@@neisei55 that’s just how I talk 😂 but okay. Thank you for your comment

[@sopsili]

What an absolutely beautiful hidden nugget in our state! AZ continues to give me more and more reasons to love it!

[@sergethepurge9425]

Thank you!

[@RonOnTheRoad]

Thanks for having me on Serge! Looking forward to our next adventure!

[@sergethepurge9425]

Thank you Ron! Likewise! 😄

[@mildbillhiccup844]

It’s too bad you basically lied about this town the entire time. Crime is rampant, and it is almost impossible to afford living in this town for work class people.

[@kyjowi]

Love seeing historical Arizona content like this, well done!

[@RonOnTheRoad]

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@sergethepurge9425]

Thank you so much!

[@deseree-gh6xk]

great video Serge!

[@sergethepurge9425]

@@deseree-gh6xk thank you!

[@upcloseimage]

It was nice to get a more local perspective on Camp Verde. Have you kayaked before? That little trek due to low waters looked like a good workout. Calm waters looked very peaceful.

[@sergethepurge9425]

Definitely! Yeah I love kayaking! Thank you for watching

[@mildbillhiccup844]

As a local, I can tell you besides the historical facts absolutely everything this guy said is pretty much a lie.

[@pantsarmstrong863]

Really great video

[@sergethepurge9425]

@@pantsarmstrong863 thank you so much! Really means a lot

[@janicefoehner3988]

Dude how would you even get up there? Yes, this was the original stair stepper model, right out of the Sears catalog. Love it. Namaste

[@billermanthegreat]

Like all of your content exploring AZ.

[@sergethepurge9425]

Thank you I really appreciate that!

[@kathyzahnow8253]

I would think that you weigh an egg because you get more for the egg when you go to the general store to sell your eggs.

[@sergethepurge9425]

That makes sense actually. Thank you for your insight!

[@RonOnTheRoad]

That’s a likely explanation! Thanks for contributing. 😊

[@desertwaters_808]

The water table gets deeper once you get up away from the river.

[@sergethepurge9425]

Next time we’ll explore that river further thank you so much for watching

[@lostvisitor]

Can't drink the water until you get real deep then need to worry about arsenic.

[@smartysmarty1714]

"I've never seen a beaver". Why am I not surprised by that ??

[@sergethepurge9425]

I think beavers are somewhat rare in Arizona

[@sparkyatlarge]

Did some electrical work on that house! (I'm an electrician...)

[@millenials_best]

I would hope so

[@lostvisitor]

but the toilet was broken.

[@millenials_best]

@@lostvisitor he said he was an electrician, not a plumber

[@lostvisitor]

@@millenials_best guess that is why the toilet is still broken.

[@millenials_best]

@@lostvisitor what's wrong with it specifically? I'm a plumbers daughter. I'll talk you through it

[@doraschabel8399]

Great and fun video Sergei! Love the area!

[@sergethepurge9425]

Thank you!

[@cdlund2840]

Too hot for me down there in Camp Verde. I would be living indoors with the AC cranked up 8 months of the year.

[@sergethepurge9425]

Lol yeah that’s most of Arizona for you.

[@rutheiermann3476]

Beautiful area but unaffordable to most. Probably because he's lived there and the prices weren't bad back then. Would love to get out of Phoenix. Can't afford any other part of Arizona because prices have skyrocketed.

[@mildbillhiccup844]

Camp Verde is an extremely expensive town to live in. Housing prices are absolutely astronomical, and it is cheaper to drive the 40 miles to Prescott to do grocery shopping than it is to do it locally. I don’t know who this guy is that he had in his video, but he is an absolute liar.

[@sergethepurge9425]

I understand! While I definitely don’t think is 300-400k is “affordable” in the grand picture with inflation that price seems to be “not bad” to me for what you’re paying for. But yes I understand what you mean. Phoenix has definitely become unaffordable, I grew up there and don’t even recognize it anymore

[@lostvisitor]

@@sergethepurge9425 it got so unaffordable because rich people from some place else drove the prices up.

[@stephenenders2066]

thank you for explaining what sinagua meant. always wondered that. the hopi also talk about aliens coming down and teaching them like my lebanese ancestors do btw, some of the same names and symbols too. humans are kinda pets and don't understand this. lol cool video ,, and great host for camp verde.

[@RonOnTheRoad]

Thanks for watching!

[@jenniferread3811]

Ron's the dude in the know!

[@sergethepurge9425]

Definitely!

[@RonOnTheRoad]

Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@RonOnTheRoad]

Thanks for watching! More videos coming soon!

[@daytonlayton]

Awesome video! Camp Verde looks amazing!

[@sergethepurge9425]

@@daytonlayton thank you so much!

[@mildbillhiccup844]

Take it from a resident. This video is pretty much all lies.

[@JonJon-ey8ns]

It’s NOT! Horrible town to live in! Worst place I’ve ever lived, deeply regret moving my family here!

[@lostvisitor]

It only looks that way on first impression.

[@alissamicheleanderson]

I lived here when I was on a Medical Assisting contract in Cottonwood for the Verde Valley Medical Center (clinics) most affordable, yes bc I stayed in a casita…watch out for the wolf spiders though 🥴😅

[@Guest_YT_1]

I live next to the verde river rn

[@sergethepurge9425]

Very cool!

[@saltlight4005]

Are you considering selling? I’m looking for a property to buy there.

[@ahummerich2751]

Hope you like mosquitoes and humidity as well as the same temperatures as Phoenix.

[@saltlight4005]

Humidity?? I wish.

[@dennisrio]

Let's not tell people about it... Thankssss :D

[@sergethepurge9425]

@@dennisrio hahaha I understand. Thank for watching

[@rebeccarobinson1575]

Great video. I would love to visit camp Verde. You make really good videos.

[@sergethepurge9425]

Thank you so much I really appreciate that!

[@lostvisitor]

No you don't. restaurants sucks and people are not welcoming.

[@joncox9719]

Yes, if you live on Millionaire Rd, it’s nice, but the normal residential areas are trashy as it gets! Like a border town! You can’t have anything nice, the people are low class and trash their yards with broken down vehicles! The town government does not enforce the codes and are the most backwards and corrupt people I have ever seen! Moving here was he biggest mistake of my life! Try to have a nice home and yard, the trashy neighbors never mow their grass and code enforcement is non existent! Stay away, if you are not from here, you are not welcomed!

[@lostvisitor]

@@joncox9719 If you want code enforcement and non trashy yards move to California. I like freedom over government control.

[@ThePurgeNewsMedia]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@millenials_best]

Camp Verde. Looks like you've never heard of Prescott.

[@sergethepurge9425]

@@millenials_best I have an entire video on Prescott with Ron as well if you check my “Documentaries” playlist you’ll find it

[@millenials_best]

@@sergethepurge9425 I will have to do that! Thank you!

[@markblackmore521]

Verde Valley has always been an awesome outdoor recreational region. Great memories from the 70s & 80s. Sadly in the last 20 or 30 years it has morphed into an enclave of conservative extremism. In addition property crime has soared to record levels probably due to a meth epidemic in the valley.

[@sergethepurge9425]

Thank you for watching and thank you for sharing

[@timebot000]

Billionaires are looking to settle in areas where they haven't spent a year actually living in. They don't care how it is locally cuz they want to just build on top of it. There Are smart sensitive wealthy people who can help change things in a good way, but there are those just looking at $$$, and who do outrageous purchases of old infrastructures, but thier plans do not happen because of local 'issues' that they totally ignore, but that nix out thier big plans. Bisbee Az has examples of that . I lived around camp Verde in the 70s, ❤❤❤❤

[@LoneWolf-qv8lx]

Taxes will kill you! Aside from the heat.

[@sergethepurge9425]

@@LoneWolf-qv8lx well fair enough. Being from Phoenix though I will say the rest of AZ is never as hot as Phoenix typically

[@theresekirkpatrick3337]

Can I come buy some pecans? Im over the hill in chino valley 🤔❤

[@RonOnTheRoad]

Honestly you can just walk along Pecan Lane/Montezuma Castle Highway outside the fence with a bag and pick them up! You wouldn’t be the first. 😊

[@chapsteronetime2000]

Home prices in AZ are extremely hi!! I moved to pv in 2002 and you could buy a rambler 1400-1800sq ft for $30-$35k yah no shit crazy huh and I’ve watched it boom boom boom all the Californians driving the cost of everything sky high! I moved to the base of Mingus 15yrs ago and what I paid for my entire house plus acreage would only get you raw 2 acres of dirt out here today!! Inflation does t help either but craps outta control

[@e7p037a]

Prescott is where it’s at why don’t you make a video there. Doc holiday and Wyatt Earp used to play poker on whiskey row. The lake is gorgeous and there are all the amenities of a big city with a small town feel. Camp verde is not affordable it’s extremely expensive. There are no jobs except the casino. It is a food desert and the only store is twice as much as Walmart an hours drive round trip.

[@RonOnTheRoad]

We did a video on Prescott a few months ago. Thanks for watching. 😊

[@rayvinnyte4245]

I live in Yarnell Az

[@sergethepurge9425]

Very cool!

[@howardrobinson4938]

Are you, like, serious bruh? Like, woooah, dude! Like, wow! That is amazing. Wow. Wooah, dude. Wow. Seriously? Like, that is, like amazing. Whooah.

[@krystawitt]

Being a hateful ass to a total stranger on the internet? Is that how you live a fulfilling life? Sad...

[@howardrobinson4938]

@@krystawitt You didn't get the joke.

[@krystawitt]

@@howardrobinson4938 No. I guess I didn't...and still don't. What is the joke?

[@howardrobinson4938]

@@krystawitt The joke was straight up from the interviewer talking the way he did to the Energizer bunny. It was freakin' hilarious! And the guy was clueless! Man, he was runnin' a program on automatic pilot like a fifteen year old talking to her therapist. So...does that help? Actually, don't reply cause I'm now done.

[@sethmoniz915]

The idea this is affordable is cracked out. So many stories about how terrible this town is and how overpriced.

[@j.daniel6516]

Housing prices kust went up 50%.

[@sergethepurge9425]

Fair enough

[@sergethepurge9425]

Thanks for watching

[@nlabanok]

Lol @ getting excited about the Verde River.... it's only unique or notable in any way because it's wettish and in Arizona. Otherwise, by any other river standard in almost every other part of the country, it's a murky, stagnant mosquito breeding slimepool in which I'm told the water moves through. Same for the so called oasis....are there trees? Yes. Is there a possibility of agriculture there? Yes....but like the Verde River, it is only notable for its vegetation because of the stark contrast vs the charred and barren hellscape of the environment for virtually all points south and except for Sedona and Flagstaff to the north, all other points north. Definitely not a reason to move out west....if you're coming from the east, almost everywhere there is better in terms of water and vegetation than Camp Verde although it does afford you the advantage of being within driveable distance to SW Colorado, Utah, and a few isolated but certainly amazing landmarks in the SW like the Grand Canyon.

[@rebeccaswilling1771]

I don’t see how $300-$400 thousand is affordable

[@sergethepurge9425]

In our inflation economy it seemed to me that 300-400 is actually not bad compared to what I could be. I would think normally lake houses would cost around 1 million

[@lostvisitor]

The guy is rich and does not understand the lives of the rest of us.

[@Mt.Everest.]

Nothing about this is any great mystery to anyone. People have been visiting theses areas since the 70's come on now!!

[@ashleybullmore]

Lmao camp Verde is not still affordable

[@SAM_R97]

Call it camp green if you can’t pronounce it correctly

[@bryanprehoda]

Dream until it floods lol around a bunch of meth heads

[@zacharymoore6816]

Lmao Ariz9na is affordable all over... and camp verde is over priced sitting next to Sedona and flagstaff along the 17.. what kind of joke video is this?!

[@lostvisitor]

I see you love to make videos lying about the place you visit. Nice to be rich and not respect the people that live in these towns.

[@sergethepurge9425]

@@lostvisitor bro you think I’m rich of these vids 😂😂😂😂 quit lying to yourself. I loose money trying to make quality videos for everyone on the internet. I do this because I thoroughly enjoy it and have passion for seeing new things. Of course I’d love to make my money back on these vids eventually, but I’m no where close to rich. Piece of advice for you, if you hate your town this much that you feel the need to make assumptions about me and are angry, LEAVE your town and make your life better. I’m sorry that you hate it so much. My first impressions of the place were fantastic and this was MY perspective, your town it seemed like a fantastic place to me. If it’s so awful make your own video about it.

[@lostvisitor]

@@sergethepurge9425 your not taking into account what happens to small towns when some video a stranger makes goes viral. Your trying to make a dime at the expense of what makes a small town great.

[@sergethepurge9425]

@@lostvisitor okay

[@PeggiFulgham]

I think it’s great to see new places. Sorry that haters gotta hate.😢

[@lostvisitor]

@@PeggiFulgham I think your back yard will be a great new place to see. and I will do what all these visitors are doing to my back yard to yours.