isyasad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I grew up near Phoenix but I don’t know anything about those Kentucky cities. Cursory glance at Richmond makes me think of Prescott. Similar population, has a university.
AZ also has Florence, if you’re interested in Versailles for its European name 🤷♀️
What is it about those KY cities that you like?
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I like Kentucky because of the beautiful rural scenery, not to mention how scenic it is, especially in the Central Kentucky area (Lexington, Versailles, Frankfort, Lawrenceburg and Richmond). I’m looking for a city in Arizona that’s like those; rural, scenic, has horses, fuses suburbs with rural living and is close to the capital or largest city (in Arizona’s case Phoenix).
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
You’re not going to find too many horse farms in the Phoenix area. Most animal based farms in the area are for cattle.
And as for a combination of rural and suburban, the divide is a lot firmer in Arizona since farmland tends to get developed in large chunks as suburban communities. The farms don’t have any relationship with the suburbs except as a place to drive through until the land gets developed.
And it is not going to be close to downtown Phoenix. Unlike Lexington, there was never a growth boundary chosen for the Phoenix area. Development has sprawled pretty far, only really limited by mountain parks and Indian reservations.
isyasad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I don’t know anything about horses, but definitely take a look at Prescott. Just to name a few other places you might be interested in: Cottonwood, Sedona, maybe Queen Creek. Maybe Casa Grande, Coolidge, Florence.