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Any suggestions on where to live in Fullerton? We just need a safe and quiet neighborhood that's not too far from the train station. I have a 2 year old and another kid on the way. So, family friendly areas are a must. We are also open to cities around this area.
BTW - I'm an east coast transplant and would like a few of the conveniences of home (a downtown, parks, sidewalks and good pizza).
I have lived in Fullerton since 1975. Stay away from the area south of the train station as the crime rate is higher. The neighborhoods north of the Harbor/Brea Blvd intersection and south of Harbor/Imperial Hwy are very safe although quite expensive. Avoid the city of La Habra, which my hispanic friend affectionately calls Guada La Habra.
Overall the price of real estate will give some indication. If it's ridiculously expensive then that is the nice part of Fullerton safe to raise kids. If the house is a reasonable price then double check to make sure it's not in gang territory. So many people have moved here in the past 10 years that people have already found the hidden deals, now they're starting to bid up the prices in the less desireable neighborhoods.
As for the other cities, Yorba Linda, Anaheim Hills are nice, and there are some nice pockets in neighboring Brea.
The 92835 area code is one of the best hidden secrets of Fullerton. It is a very safe neighborhood, the houses all have personality - no cookie cutters here. Many of the houses have large yards, 1 acre is common. This is where many people had horses to ride on the nearby trails (this was popular up until the 1990s). St Jude Medical Center is a 5 minute drive up Harbor Blvd. A lot of physicians also live in this neighborhood. The elementary school, Hermosa Elementary, is outstanding.
The 92835 area code is one of the best hidden secrets of Fullerton. It is a very safe neighborhood, the houses all have personality - no cookie cutters here. Many of the houses have large yards, 1 acre is common. This is where many people had horses to ride on the nearby trails (this was popular up until the 1990s). St Jude Medical Center is a 5 minute drive up Harbor Blvd. A lot of physicians also live in this neighborhood. The elementary school, Hermosa Elementary, is outstanding.
I would agree about 92835. although I now live in Chicago. I would advise you also to look at the people in the neighborhood and the signage in the neighborhood, (Korean, Spanish) such as for sale signs. I just went back to visit after 5 years of being away, and I was shocked that my old neighborhood in Sunny Hills (92833) is now all Korean., and very foreign to me. Nice homes when they were built, and still expensive (800-900 k) but I could never move back there because of all the change. Fullerton was a beautiful place in the 1970's when I was a kid, but something has changed, and not for the better. My choice now would be Yorba Linda, although I think it is more expensive and I do not know the proximity to the train line.
The problem isn't the ethnicity, it is the attitude and atmosphere of the place. The main hispanic areas of Fullerton are rundown and there is gang activity. Who in their right minds would want to live there?
I love having Asians moving into my neighborhood. Good people whose kids will try to make something of themselves, they respect their neighbors and they work their butts off. Hispanics are great, too, as long as they aren't illegals who will blast rancheras until four in the morning and crowd the schools to the point it hurts the education of U.S. citizens.
Just because we don't want to live in a bad neighborhood with crime, gang activity and loud parties doesn't make people racist.
[quote=Justabystander;1033455]I would agree about 92835. although I now live in Chicago. I would advise you also to look at the people in the neighborhood and the signage in the neighborhood, (Korean, Spanish) such as for sale signs. I just went back to visit after 5 years of being away, and I was shocked that my old neighborhood in Sunny Hills (92833) is now all Korean., and very foreign to me. Nice homes when they were built, and still expensive (800-900 k) but I could never move back there because of all the change.
Wow- careful, your "issues" are showing.
There's a thread somewhere on the OC board talking about racism in Orange County. A lot of people are saying that's not true. Your above statement is good evidence that it is still alive and well. Fortunately for the rest of us, you have taken your special brand of ethnicphobia to Chicago.
I attended Cal State Fullerton in the 1990's The nicest area in Fullerton Sunny Hills area in North Fullerton, nice tree lined streets above Downtown. Sunny Hills High School is one most prestigious schools in the Country. Major tests scores, number of students who go on college and graduate from college are very high.
On the East side adjacent to Cal Sate Fullerton and Troy HS is my second choice Troy is very good like Sunny Hills but good in its own way. Nice area Close to 91 and 57 Fwys Close to Brea Mall, Placentia Town Center.
Amerige Heights is Master Planned Community on the Far West Side. The community was built in the last 7 years on the former Rockwell Aerospace plant. Amerige Heights all of the amenities that comes with that type of development Houses,Condos, Town homes, Row houses, offices parks, and
Retail (Albertsons, Target, Barnes and Nobel et al.) give you convinces that you need.
North East Fullerton is built around Coyote Hills Golf Course and Gilman Regional Park again nice neighborhood. Coyote Hills is West of the Orange Freeway57 and Gilman Regional Park is east of the freeway. This area is very close to Brea Mall and Brea Golf Course.
NW Fullerton will be West Coyote Hills within the next few years(activists hope they can blocked the area from development (Chevron owns the property they also developed Vista Del Verde at Black Gold Golf Club
in nearby Yorba Linda with luxury homes on Golf Course.) The activist want open space or park) only time and the courts will tell if this is built. I hope this helps.
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I would agree about 92835. although I now live in Chicago. I would advise you also to look at the people in the neighborhood and the signage in the neighborhood, (Korean, Spanish) such as for sale signs. I just went back to visit after 5 years of being away, and I was shocked that my old neighborhood in Sunny Hills (92833) is now all Korean., and very foreign to me. Nice homes when they were built, and still expensive (800-900 k) but I could never move back there because of all the change. Fullerton was a beautiful place in the 1970's when I was a kid, but something has changed, and not for the better. My choice now would be Yorba Linda, although I think it is more expensive and I do not know the proximity to the train line.
I was going to describe Justabystander's comments as anachronistic because they refer to the 70s until I went back and read that this person seems to have moved out of Fullerton recently. I guess they more aptly fall under xenophobic which by the way does not mean racist. He or she just finds other people's culture by way of race foreign and not up to the white, Midwestern standard of "normal."
I find it interesting that this person was shocked to see "Koreans" as if they were recent immigrants who just showed up yesterday. There has been a sizable Korean and Hispanic population in the OC and more so in Fullerton for over twenty years. Fullerton's outstanding schools attracted ambitious, forward thinking families (many of whom were Korean) and their kids have been a reason for all the Ivy league bound graduates from Fullerton's high schools.
I'd say there are more Koreans now because they as a nation recently fell in love with (became fanatical about) golf and Fullerton has several nice courses, public and private. Moreover, professionals and business owners have been radiating out of LA's Koreatown as they have become more integrated in the mainstream.
Btw I admire Midwestern values but the whole xenophobe aspect just ruins it. Culture and values aren't dictated solely by race.
In the late 1970s I remember a lot of cars had the bumper sticker "Orange County Native." I haven't seen those stickers since that time.
I wonder what place in the country most resembles the golden-days of Fullerton in the 1970s. Maybe somewhere in Idaho or Wyoming?
Fullerton is such a completely different place these days I don't even recognize it, although I've lived here for ages.
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Not racist, xenophobic...
