El Monte -- how is it? (Los Angeles, East Los Angeles: college, area, community)

[VillageLife]

Like I say,there is a lot of beauty in this city,I lived there from 1989 to 2003.Nice people.I still go visit my friends down there.

[Rats]

Originally Posted by Fantasm

Shucks, I just signed a contract for a nice townhome... its in a community of like townhome's, hopefully everything will be alright.

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I'll make sure to be extra careful with my cars

the address on that is wrong (Google maps can't find it) so I can't tell you whether it's in a particularly good or bad part of El Monte. good luck though.

[VillageLife]

El Monte is part of East Los Angeles and also is within the San Gabriel Valley.
Look in the wikipedia,it will tell you eveything
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Los_Angeles_(region
There is a college in Monterey Park,it is called East L.A. College
You can probably call the college. There should be a student networking place where you want to ask all this question where the young people go.ask them anything.I suggest you go to the college and find out. good luck!

[Fantasm]

Originally Posted by Rats

the address on that is wrong (Google maps can't find it) so I can't tell you whether it's in a particularly good or bad part of El Monte. good luck though.

Its somewhat near to Longo Toyota, on the otherside of the freeway though

[vyvyanne]

i grew up in el monte and still live there. please always call it ghetto and think its incredibly unsafe but i think that's overly untrue. this is not the kind of town to be taking a night stroll or anything but i have never been harmed in broad daylight other than catcalls and verbal harassments. also i think the north el monte area is better than south.

[caligirl2000]

Originally Posted by DaisyLovIzzy

El Monte is part of East Los Angeles and also is within the San Gabriel Valley.
Look in the wikipedia,it will tell you eveything
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Los_Angeles_(region
There is a college in Monterey Park,it is called East L.A. College
You can probably call the college. There should be a student networking place where you want to ask all this question where the young people go.ask them anything.I suggest you go to the college and find out. good luck!

El Monte is no where near East Los Angeles. Where did you get your info from? E.L.A is more than 15 miles from El Monte and the College in the area is Rio Hondo.

[caligirl2000]

I lived in south El Monte since 1996 and I loved it! The crime can be a bit bad. It's a large hispanic and asian community made of three parts El Monte, North El Monte and South El Monte. North El Monte which is North of Longo Toyota is nice and also much more expensive. South El Monte is close to all major freeways, I loved it there. This leaves the El Monte area last, not to great. For a while El Monte was one of the safest cities, but lately crime has been going up. I left s. El Monte last year sold my house and made some good cash. Moved to Houston, Tx paid my house cash and its 3x's the size for a quarter of the price of a house in the San Gabriel Valley.

[Annieannalisa]

Originally Posted by sixfour235

If I were you, I not even consider it---Gang ridden, not all that safe, somewhat industrial. It is very diverse with a very high Mexican population.

There are many surrounding areas that are better.

okay listen,
El Monte is not bad at all i live here and sure its not perfect suberbia but its true every city has crime but i have never had a problem with parking my 60,000 dollar car on the street. and yea im mexican but there is more than one ethnic population. any i would just like to ask where you live??? i walk home every day and i have never been harassed or mugged. El Monte in a growing city and it is constantly getting nicer!

[glopez329]

There is an excellent book that you can get at the El Monte library! it is on Tyler st.. It cost $20, it is very interesting.. It has a lot of pictures and stuff that is not anywhere on the internet-get it, read it!

[glopez329]

I have lived in El Monte my whole life and let me tell you-Yes, there can be crime but this is not random crime. The crime you hear about is more like cops shooting at some bald guy and then trying to use his gang affilition as a reason to shoot or kill- the police there are just as thugs as the so called gang memebrs..El Monte is safe, I walk late at night and never have I been mugged, anything stolen, etc It just has a bad reputation but it is a good city to live in I especially like North El monte, The heart of El monte is a bit more rowdy! Over my whole life that I have lived here I personally have had no problems- You once in a great loong while hear of a shooting that a police shot someone! never drive byes, home invasions! so cut the crap people if you have never lived in El Monte than you know shyt! It is a very safe city!