Should Annie Schwartz leave

Cave Creek, Arizona?

5015 people live in Cave Creek

Cave Creek is in the desert, and the scenery

is quite spectacular

Climate

• Hot and dry in summer and still warm in

winter.

• In the summer there is the “monsoon”

when rain occurs in heavy downfalls.

Annie loves to go horseriding in

the desert

There are a lot of older people living in Cave

Creek. The median age is 51 years (Arizona

median is 37years).

Schools

• There are Elementary schools and High

Schools, so young people in Cave Creek

get a good education.

• EMPLOYMENT: the most common

occupation is some form of management,

then sales and construction.

• Cave Creek is growing rapidly – 34%

increase in population since 2000

It costs over 400,000$ to buy a

house in Cave Creek.

Annie has 3 uncles, 4 aunts, 3 grandparents and 7 cousins in Cave Creek. Annie loves family get togethers.

Annie has been to College and is a qualified business manager. Her boyfriend who she met at college lives elsewhere in Arizona.

Annie’s best friend – Beth – has got married and lives on a ranch quite a long way away in Colorado.

Annie works part time as a waitress in a diner. She cannot afford a car on her wages.

Annie is ambitious and does not want to waste her education. She has been offered a job as a trainee manager for a car leasing firm in Tucson, Arizona.

Should she stay or should she go?

Annie does love Cave Creek.