Looks like AZCentral.com ran a story today on DirtyScottsdale.com.
That site is great - who doesn't love making fun of those fake, debt-ridden losers? However, the site creates some false impressions, like the myth that Scottsdale is full of beautiful women. It's not. While living there I saw a lot of cute girls, but only saw a true "10" maybe once a month ... compared to almost daily here in Newport Beach. Supposedly "hot" Scottsdale girls would never even get a date here, and would be waiting tables at a Denny's in the ghetto of Santa Ana somewhere.
It does do a great job of making Scottsdale "men" look like the total idiot losers they are, so nice job on that!
The site also creates the impression that Scottsdale nightlife is really happening, when in reality it's all but died. That's why 944 had me do a story on the subject for their May issue. Now that the housing ATM is over, credit is tightening and the free ride has ended, none of the Scottsdale posers have any money left to spend. My friends who still live in AZ even tell me that you can walk into any high-end Scottsdale restaurant on a Saturday night and get seated immediately without a reservation, something I've never seen once in seven years of living there.
Scottsdale is over ... dead ... finished. The end of the housing ATM means no more spending money for the Scottsdale dolts, whose mortgage payments are tripling on loans they couldn't afford in the first place.
Scottsdale's only 5-star restaurant has closed its doors. Two restaurants at Desert Ridge have gone bankrupt and closed in the past month. Mastro's Steakhouse was wisely sold off by its owners.
Scottsdale's #1 tourist attraction, Barrett-Jackson, is bailing out. All that's left is the weak FBR Open which is attended by broke frat boys and middle-age alcoholics, neither of whom contribute anything to the scene.
If you're in Scottsdale and reading this, get out, NOW. Sell your house at a loss, because if you don't sell now, you'll really be screwed in 1-2 years when your property value is 40% less than it is today.
And let's not even get started on the corrupt city government and police department....
Uh-oh ... my mistake ... I accidentally deleted all the comments left on this thread, when I meant to approve them! In any case, my responses to a couple of them:
Keith - Yes, Channel 3 does seem to promote the myth of Scottsdale being "hot" (though other than the weather, it's ice cold). However, in all fairness, it was Channel 3 who put me on television to promote this site which resulted in over 3,000 visitors a day for several weeks after (and still close to 1,000 a day now), which makes me happy because my mission on this site is to expose the truth about Scottsdale. What I found surprsing was when 944 asked me to write, and subsequently published, an article exposing the truth of the Scottsdale "wealth" phonies. From looking through 944, it would appear that they're also trying to paint a picture of Scottsdale as being "hot" but I guess NOT!
The other thing to remember is that normal people are not newsworthy. There's no shock value in going to a normal bar with normal, real, down-to-earth people, so instead they put the Scottsdale freakshow on TV to keep things interesting. (My guess anyway.)
John - I point out the Desert Ridge restaurant closings because it's 5 minutes from the most pretentious and phony area of North Scottsdale, so it's largely supported by those phonies. The same will be true of City North even though it's in the Phoenix city limits.
To the guy who can't understand why I operate this site even though I've left:
Because my mission here is to help others avoid the mistake of moving to Scottsdale. Most people with money are told to move to North Scottsdale because it's "THE" place to be, and within a year or two they get fed up with the assholes and move down to P.V. or Arcadia. A friend who is a high-end car dealer let me in on this secret and how nearly all of his very wealthy clients have left Scottsdale because it's a bunch of fake assholes.
If I can save just one person from making the mistake of moving there, my time on this site has been well spent.
Posted by: Frank Rumbauskas | May 31, 2007 at 02:19 AM