"Sacramento is a scary place."

[North1]

I'm originally from the Midwest and didn't find Sacramento that scary. We lived there for two years before moving for work. I would actually jog solo there and didn't feel threatened. It's like any big city - some areas just aren't that great.
I actually live in Shreveport, LA now and am actually scared here. I don't feel safe in my own home even though we live in a nice subdivision.

[Tiger Beer]

Originally Posted by North1

I'm originally from the Midwest and didn't find Sacramento that scary. We lived there for two years before moving for work. I would actually jog solo there and didn't feel threatened. It's like any big city - some areas just aren't that great.
I actually live in Shreveport, LA now and am actually scared here. I don't feel safe in my own home even though we live in a nice subdivision.

That's the toughest thing about a thread like this - it is so relative.

Being from the Midwest myself and having lived on both the East Coast and West Coast. I just find EVERYWHERE on the West Coast to be very very safe and agreeable.

With most of these threads, I've come to the conclusion that it is people from nice West Coast 'wealthier areas', who visit a city like Sacramento, and see it isn't as nice as whatever coastal California city they came from, etc., and consider it 'scary' or whatever.

[City Boy]

Originally Posted by NorCal Dude

All of Oakland is not the flat lands but most of it is. The only joke is you (city boy) coming in here and trying to pretend its not. If Oakland was safe and nice it would not be the 10th most dangerous city in the country. Sf is nice, La is nice, SD is nice, New York is nice, these places have lower crime rates and a higher quality of life.

To the question at hand yea, parts of sacramento are shady. But just as many neighborhoods are nice as are shady, but by and large the majority are what people call "hit or miss". One block could be one of 20 year long home owners with well maintained lawns and pride of ownership. The next, rentals that are becoming dilapidated with little thugs walking around.

Not as bad as Oakland but not as safe as san jose.

You're the resident troll and idiot of the Bay Area forum, anything you say is not worth much anyways. You're scared of your own shadow and you're soft, if you think all of New York is Safe then it shows you've never been there, because most of the Bronx, over half of Queens, Brooklyn, and even uptown and Staten Island, Yes Staten Island, have area's worse than anywhere in Oakland, but you're a coward and would never leave times square to know that.

[NorCal Dude]

Originally Posted by City Boy

You're the resident troll and idiot of the Bay Area forum, anything you say is not worth much anyways. You're scared of your own shadow and you're soft, if you think all of New York is Safe then it shows you've never been there, because most of the Bronx, over half of Queens, Brooklyn, and even uptown and Staten Island, Yes Staten Island, have area's worse than anywhere in Oakland, but you're a coward and would never leave times square to know that.

Will you let the grown ups talk for once? I mean seriously. Resident troll? I've been here less than a year and I have one third of the reputation points that you have accumulated in 3 years, and youre on here every day. Get real.

Of course I have been to new york, I have family in Manhattan. New york city has less murders than Chicago and is 3 times the size. Youre on CITY DATA, anyone with a brain can see that its crime rate is lower than the national average and the city has more cops per 1000 people than the national average. New york is on a whole is very safe. But you are just a child and let your silly emotions obscure factual data.

The only thing I am scared of is children such as yourself, who perpetuate the stereotype people already have of people from Oakland. How sad. Get a clue already.

[hydro]

San Jose is safe? Not some of the areas I've been in. BY ENLARGE Sacramento is just a bunch of suburb sprawl, and full of car break ins. There is a lot of murders within the gang ridden areas. There are a lot of outerlying thug areas too- so if you are scared of thugs then Sacramento has a lot of scary areas. Mostly these thugs are posers, though. It is certainly scarier than Portland or Denver. It is less scary than Pittsburg, CA.

[hydro]

Maybe less scary than Pittsburgh, PA too, come to think of it!

[oakland2nashville]

Get out of here!!!

[Yvetta]

There is nothing scary about Sac or Oakland. As with any town in the USA it depends on where you live. There are good neighborhoods everywhere..and some that are not.
Everyone is not financially blessed to live in the upscale neighborhoods, but don't rank an entire city negatively because of your situation.