10 Most Expensive Cities to Live in Arizona

2. Cave Creek and Carefree

While being two separate communities, Cave Creek and Carefree border one another and exhibit similar high prices overall, so we’ll rate them together. Former is a community of some 5,000, while latter has around 3,000 inhabitants. Cave Creek Regional Park is just outside of the small town whose name it shares, but that’s not the only green piece of land around with Spur Cross Ranch Conservation just north of town. Carefree is a little bit closer to Scottsdale (they actually border one another), and it too offers plenty of outdoor activity venues to its citizens. Any of five nearby golf courses should testify to that statement, and it’s no wonder why Carefree and nearby Cave Creek feature such exorbitant housing prices. Together with expensive homes, however, come expensive shopping baskets and services which can easily be seen in respective pricing indexes for these categories.

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