If you can afford the housing and can find work (the two biggest issues with Flagstaff), it’s a really great place to live. The quality of life is excellent. I haven’t lived there but many of my close friends do and I visit often.

It’s a very young town so you’ll feel at home age wise.

I live in Flagstaff. I moved here from Chicago and the price of living s pretty much the same.

You have to have a career to move here—the job market is really terrible and pay is quite low. Even the qualitifed jobs often don’t pay nearly as well as other parts of the country.

However, that said, I am in my twenties as well and Flagstaff is awesome. It is beautiful and has great hiking and trail biking, bouldering, and rock climbing. In the winter the mountain has plenty of skiing and boarding. It is close to a lot of very beautiful locations, and if you get the winter blues, you can always head south for a day trip (though I wouldn’t recommend PHX, I think it is a horrible place.). It is really nice to live in a place where I can bike whereever I want.

There is only one mall and not much of a nightlife. Also, you have to get used to the sound of trains. The tracks cut right through the middle of town, so you will have to get accustomed to them if you are a light sleeper.