Looking for opinions on the Fayetteville, Rogers, Bentonville area

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NWA is beautiful. Will say the traffic situation in Little Rock is a nightmare.

Benton County is wealthier, has better parks and biking amenities, more chains, better shopping, dining, etc. It is also more suburban feeling and more corporate.

Washington County has Springdale, which is the blue-collar city/Latino of the big four, and Fayetteville, the catch-all for college kids and left-wingers.

The hilliest areas are Fayetteville and Bella Vista.

The richest areas are downtown Bentonville, SW Rogers/Cave Springs.

The money side of Fayetteville is the east side. Including Goshen.

The money side of Springdale is the west side, including HarBer and Elm Springs.

Farmington/Prairie Grove are the best "small town" burbs in Washington County with "good schools" and "safe Neighborhoods".

Pea Ridge and Gravette are the best small-town burbs in Benton County. Ditto.

Siloam Springs is kind of its own thing, out on the Oklahoma line. Cool downtown, small college, noticeably more windy, and just across the state line from the big casino and more lax weed laws.

West Fork and Winslow are still pretty country and hillbilly, but in some of the prettiest nature around, south of Fayetteville.

The Ozarks, Beaver Lake, and Buffalo River are to the east/south.

All Big Four cities have unique downtown neighborhoods, with Fayetteville having the best overall mixture of stuff to do, bars, etc. Bentonville is coming on very strongly and will surpass it soon, but they don't have the history or the old neighborhoods, or the University. They do have a billion dollar art museum, ridiculously good mountain biking, and tons of money flying around, hip food scene, and lots of business-travelers and Type-A people.

That's all pretty accurate.

I'd say downtown Fayetteville, Wilson Park, Washington-Willow, the historic districts are big money areas, too. Some recent sales in downtown Fayetteville along West Avenue (new "Ramble" park adjacent) have been in the $500 per square foot range.

Nuts.

As a metro, NWA is the most-competitive apartment market in the country for what is considered "small-market" according to what I've read. Average time on the market for an apartment in the metro is two weeks, and every vacancy has, on average, 22 renters competing for it.



I like Cave Springs a lot. It isn't much but big houses in sub-dvisions, but there is some very pretty countryside out there (for now) and Bentonville schools....

Downtown Springdale is going to be great in a few years, and property values there haven't really even begun to climb to what they will be. There's nearly a half a billion dollars worth of projects underway or announced along Emma Ave between Thompson and Parsons Stadium.

Walmart manager?

Lots of crime. Nothing to do. No where to eat. No where to hike or ride your bike. Almost no trees or hills of any kind. It's basically Detroit. Stay far far away.

A lived there for a year. Helped build a few bridges in Fayetteville. I honestly really liked it. Great outdoors area. I've lived in the Appalachians, Rockies, and Ozarks. And while not as much cool stuff numbers wise, the cool stuff around there is as nice as anything I've seen. My favorite camping trips have been overnight paddles on the Buffalo.

I've camped directly underneath Big Bluff, which is on on postcards of the area. Not many places left where you can do that.