Possibly Moving to Sacramento...

bassguppy · #1 06-08-2008, 02:44 PM

Not a long move, just up the road 45 minutes from Fairfield. I'm minimally familiar with areas of Sac to live/avoid (I've lived in CA for 3+ years). The housing market is calling on me to buy now or really soon. Any input from those that live there? What are the roads to avoid during rush hour or is it not horribly bad? I'd like to be semi-accessible to the Amtrak/Capitol Corridor station at I Street and 5th as my wife works in the bay area and will take the train for commuting (for now).

fenderthrupeave · #2 06-09-2008, 09:21 PM

I just want to say sorry, although not as bad as stockton, bakersfield or modesto. Sac is up there on the places in CA I would never want to live.

MakiSupaStar · #3 06-09-2008, 10:20 PM

Hope you like summer swampass.

bassadicct · #4 06-09-2008, 10:21 PM

+2 to what they both said

bassguppy · #5 06-10-2008, 02:52 AM

thanks for the insight...

MakiSupaStar · #6 06-10-2008, 08:54 AM

If I had to move to that area, I would move up into the hills towards Truckee and Tahoe. However, I don't think that helps your situation much with the need for Amtrak.

jady · #7 06-10-2008, 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by fenderthrupeave

I just want to say sorry, although not as bad as stockton, bakersfield or modesto. Sac is up there on the places in CA I would never want to live.

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Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar

Hope you like summer swampass.

Yea, the summer blows out here. 110 at the hottest and dry......oh my God it's dry.

Snakeman1066 · #8 06-10-2008, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by bassguppy

Not a long move, just up the road 45 minutes from Fairfield. I'm minimally familiar with areas of Sac to live/avoid (I've lived in CA for 3+ years). The housing market is calling on me to buy now or really soon. Any input from those that live there? What are the roads to avoid during rush hour or is it not horribly bad? I'd like to be semi-accessible to the Amtrak/Capitol Corridor station at I Street and 5th as my wife works in the bay area and will take the train for commuting (for now).

She can get to the bay area via the San Joaquin line as well....You really want to avoid being downtown....while the shopping is great (K street Mall old sacramento) there i sure would not want to live there.....

It has been a few years, but We used to live in the Valley Hi/ Elk Grove area which is on south side headed towards stockton....we used to catch the train there all the time to go to San Fran, or L.A....There are busses the run in conjunction with the station and their schedules....it shouldn't be too hard to catch the train from this area. The area and all of it's bedroom communities are growing like mad. used to be you could tell the difference when leaving on area for the other, not any more. If it were me i would get as far away from downtown as possible, but thats just me.....

Good luck dude

bassguppy · #9 06-15-2008, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by jady

Yea, the summer blows out here. 110 at the hottest and dry......oh my God it's dry.

I lived in Las Cruces, New Mexico for almost 4 years so I'm familiar with dry heat although I think Sac gets a little hotter. LC was usually 95-105 from early May until late October. Just avoid being out side for more than a few minutes in the heat & do everything early in the AM.

Can anyone comment on the Florin, Parkway, or Arcade areas? I'm already saving real estate info for Elk Grove, Natomas, West Sac, Carmichael, and the Land Park/Pocket areas?

Hella · #10 06-15-2008, 08:04 PM

Hey.. it's not too bad here.

Florin and Parkway are the only places I wouldn't really want to live. I used to live in Elk Grove and it was a good place to live (for a family, at least).

winston · #11 06-15-2008, 08:53 PM

I lived in Davis for 10 years and gigged/hung out in Sac a lot. FWIW Natomas is in a major floodplain and given the state of the levees be sure to get flood insurance. Elk Grove is just far enough on the other side of Sac to make the Bay Area commute noticeably longer. Arcade area is pretty commercialized. Not quite sure where all the Light Rail stations are in Sacto, but downtown they let off close to the train station.

I'd most prefer the Land Park area out of the neighborhoods you mentioned. Area around Sac State's OK, but close to Broadway & Midtown are the only places you'll find anything resembling culture. West Sac seems up & coming but I always heard of problems with gangs & rogue cops.

It's weird, after having lived in Chicago for 6 years Sacramento feels very Midwestern/Middle American to me. I can handle the dry heat up to about 100, then I wilt. Usually cools down at night due to Delta breezes, but the air quality sucks when it hasn't rained in a couple months.

BassManPatsFan · #12 06-15-2008, 10:33 PM

I lived in Sacramento for ten years. If you want my honest opinion, I would say don't move there at all. California's an alright state and has some cool places to live, but Sacramento would probably be at the bottom of list of places to live in CA if I had to make one. It's ugly, polluted up the wazzoo, hot and dry as hell, and worst of all completely lacking culturally. This last one might not be something you'd notice or care about, but the other three are as close to proven facts as possible. That said, if Satan had a gun to my head and told me to move back there, I'd choose the Land Park neighborhood. IMO it's the only neighborhood there that actually resembles a neighborhood last time I checked and it's got some nice houses and parks and such. Still, Sacramento makes me sick going near it or thinking about it. If it weren't for my friends there, I would without a doubt never go back.