Pulte Parkside is part of a master planned community. The other part of it is Sun City at Anthem, which is a 55+ community. Both Pulte Parkside and Sun City have their own community centers respectively. Each community center includes pools, gyms, tennis courts, basketball courts and on and on. The Parkside community center has an indoor climbing rock wall and a separate outside swimming area for children, including a water volleyball court, and extensive waterpark style pool slides. There are multiple soccer fields, dog parks, softball fields, walking and biking trails, an elementary school within the community and even a small church. Frequent activities such as Wine and Dine events, Murder Mystery nights and pot lucks are held in the community center, and we often have Arts in the Park events and concerts. There is a full 18 course golf course with a golf clubhouse that serves food (which needs some work) and has a full bar. There are multiple home plans available, with prices running from the high 100's to the mid 200's. New neighborhoods are currently under construction and plenty of spec homes are available if you don't want to wait to have one built. I have lived here since 2016 and honestly I am surprised at how well the homes have maintained and even grown in resale value during that time. There is a bit of turnover, which I suspect is due to people buying out here and then deciding it's not for them. There are also few drawbacks to living out here. Namely, as I just mentioned, living out here. This place is about 20 miles from Mesa, and rush hour can be a pain. With all the growth up along Hunt highway and Ellsworth and up into Queen Creek I don't see the traffic situation improving anytime in the near future. The positives however include Cox high speed internet being available, as well as a nearby Safeway, McDonalds, Subway and a decent hospital within a 5 minute drive. So we are not entirely uncivilized. The main thing is that all of these amenities are just a sampling of what this place offers, and most importantly of all, the houses out here are well built and Pulte does an amazing job with them, but because they bought the land cheap years ago the houses are also cheap to buy. My house would have cost me about 100K more than I paid for it in Phoenix and it wouldn't have come with any of the surrounding amenities. I paid around 230K for a 2,500 square foot home, with four bedrooms, a three car garage and a ton of upgrades. You just won't get that in Phoenix. Fortunately the wife and I work from home, and we don't mind living out here. If you can swing it, this is the place for you. If you are a night life person who enjoys hanging out in Tempe with your friends on a Friday night than maybe not so much. For the first three weeks we lived out here the wife and I sat on the patio every night and every night she just said over and over, "I can't believe how quiet it is." It was 3 months before I heard my first siren. I used to live in Glendale, and I couldn't go three hours without hearing one there, so this is a huge difference and we couldn't be happier with our decision! read more

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