Talk:Joshua Tree, California
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Ask an expert rock climber and chances are he/she heard of Joshua Tree, Cal. The desert community has became an outdoor sports mecca for rock climbers, hikers and campers. Located near Joshua Tree National Park, the town has gotten used to tourists, new-age believers and nature lovers are morphing the Morongo Basin into a smaller version of "Beverly Hills" (a local told me that on the bus, about her town has attracted plenty of people from L.A. and Orange County in recent years). Joshua Tree boosts enough health food cafes, alternative medicine shops, artists' boutiques, and sporting goods stores to last a block long. Locals are concerned on home values shot upwards by three times fold in five years, and the impact of upper-classes moving next door to them, since a majority of residents are lower-middle class. Joshua Tree has a "natural" look the newcomers claim, but old-time residents associated it with the "wild west". The town is a site for a "culture war" when newcomers are usually "west coast" liberal, the oldtimers are "middle american" conservative. Joshua Tree is home to thousands of scientologists who hold meetings in a building next to a large evangelical christian church. Times are changing in a place known for "family values" and pick-up trucks play country music, now you'll find "hipness" of urban baby-boomer retirees and hear techno-soft rock play from a Starbucks outlet. + 207.200.116.5 15:03, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
