If your interests are big city ambience, this is not for you. Or, if you hate hot weather or stark landsacpes, you won’t like this either. However, it used to be a high-tech town 1 1/2 hours from L.A. So, you can get to the glitz of a city, but this is a small town and it used to be that you could make big city salaries and get experience too. That’s what we did. However, this IS the desert, it’s 120 in the summer. It is an hour (or more) to get into a city. But we loved it. If my husband wasn’t allergic to all the native plants, we would be planning to retire there.