Springdale, Arkansas--Best Place to Raise a Family

Thanks for your comment Bob. The weird thing is that there's a kind of snobbery among people from Fayetteville toward Springdale. But if you talk to someone from Springdale, especially those who work for the Springdale schools, the reverse is true. I guess it's all a matter of point of view. In any case, Springdale homes are much more affordable than those in Fayetteville.

As a real estate agent, you should know that homes in Springdale are "much more afforfable" than those in Fayetteville because they are worth much less in the market. The market, which shops carefully if not intelligently, doesn't give the same value to living in Springdale that it does to living in Fayetteville; as this is mostly the perception of newcomers to NW Arkansas, you can't really blame it on snobbishness on the part of Fayetteville residents. This is not to say that Springdale should want increases in value based on hype. The hype-induced influx of interlopers has nearly ruined Fayetteville-- and would have finished the job but for the recession. It should take ten years to populate the failed subdivisions now in some stage of development in Fayetteville, but we'll see.