"Sacramento is a scary place." (Long Beach, Fresno: rent, sex offenders)

[ebreezy]

sacramento is not a bad city at all and yes every major city had it's good and bad area....but i live in the del paso heights area off of rio linda and grand at first when i first move here a few months ago i was not really feeling the area.....but after getting settle into my apartment and meeting people for the area it's all but hype. just used common sense you'll be iight.

[pba]

Originally Posted by Shope

Man, some of you are painting Sacramento to be a really bad city/ area. lol at some of the comparisons in this thread. Sacramento can't even hold a candle to Stockton, East Palo Alto or Compton with regards to ****ty places to live. Sac has its hoods like an other city but overall it's a pretty tame place. Here is a quick ranking of the nicer to worst places to live in the Sacramento area, feel free to debate me on it:

Really Nice:
-El Dorado Hills
-Folsom
-Lincoln
-Rocklin
-Loomis

Nice:
-Roseville
-Pocket/ Greenhaven
-East Sacramento
-Davis

Average:
-College Greens
-Natomas
-Midtown
-Downtown
-Orangevale
-Fair Oaks
-Carmichael
-Elk Grove

Bad/ Some Parts are Nice:
-Rancho Cordova
-West Sacramento
-Tahoe Park/ "Med Center" Area
-Citrus Heights

Absolute Garbage:
-South Sac
-Oak Park
-Del Paso Heights/ North Highlands/ Rio Linda

20 years ago Citrus Heights would have been higher on the list but it's not very high on anyone's list of places to live anymore.

What's sad is you can also read this list as 'Really nice (white) areas' and 'Absolute garbage (minority areas)'. Now I don't think they are garbage areas because of the minority population but it's probably more of a reflection of a general economic situation, lower education, etc. Trust me, I fully believe that there are white trash people in those areas as well but just not in the same proportion.

[Shope]

Originally Posted by pba

20 years ago Citrus Heights would have been higher on the list but it's not very high on anyone's list of places to live anymore.

What's sad is you can also read this list as 'Really nice (white) areas' and 'Absolute garbage (minority areas)'. Now I don't think they are garbage areas because of the minority population but it's probably more of a reflection of a general economic situation, lower education, etc. Trust me, I fully believe that there are white trash people in those areas as well but just not in the same proportion.

I also forgot to put Granite Bay under really nice and Rosemont under Bad/ some parts are nice. You can take from it what you want, and yes it kind of reads in the way you describe. Rio Linda is a big white trash area that is garbage so there are exceptions. A lot of places used to be a lot nicer in Sacramento. I have even talked to a lot of older folks who tell me Oak Park was a really nice neihborhood in the 50's, It's hard for me to believe but it's probably true. Elk Grive would have been higher on the lists years ago but South Sac has been creeping into that area for a while now. When I think of a "real nice area" it also has to have a good amount of buffer between that area and a bad one. Some place in Sac you can actually get a piece of chalk and draw a line between decent areas and ****ty ones.

[calimikebitch]

ight well let me tell you i been livin in south sac my whole life **** is notta joke out here **** wut you herd thas jus kids talkin cuz they aint never been out here i stay in valley hi out here alls it is is gangs shootings robberies car jackings thas it but up north its jus as bad nd sum parts on the eastside letme name the areas to stay away from in sac valley hi, north highlands, meadowview, del paso heights, oak park, gardenland, fruitridge, florin, lincoln village, g-parkway, elder creek, colonial heights, basically nd then you got them weirdos downtown to watch out for but you best bet is to stay in the east or the west sacramento is the 4th worst city in northern california it goes oakland, richmond, stockton, sacremento, frisco, san jose nd on nd on

[edwardius]

Another reason parents want to send their children to private schools.

[LZKay1]

Originally Posted by Shope

Man, some of you are painting Sacramento to be a really bad city/ area. lol at some of the comparisons in this thread. Sacramento can't even hold a candle to Stockton, East Palo Alto or Compton with regards to ****ty places to live.

I've been to Sacramento multiple times and some parts of it could be compared to Stockton. The same kind of people, etc, especially in South Sac. Sacramento isn't that different than Stockton, it's like the nicer parts of Stockton.

[Shope]

Originally Posted by edwardius

Another reason parents want to send their children to private schools.

lulz

Originally Posted by LZKay1

I've been to Sacramento multiple times and some parts of it could be compared to Stockton. The same kind of people, etc, especially in South Sac.

Get outta here, come on now. What part of South Sac? It's not the nicest part of town but it is nowhere near as bad as Stockton and similar areas. In Stockton it is near impossible to get gas without being approached by someone.

[LZKay1]

Originally Posted by Shope

Get outta here, come on now. What part of South Sac? It's not the nicest part of town but it is nowhere near as bad as Stockton and similar areas. In Stockton it is near impossible to get gas without being approached by someone.

Trust me, I know what you mean, Stockton is proof the country is going down the toilet, but I'm familiar with Sacramento and it isn't really all that different compared to the nicer parts of Stockton. The only difference I could think of is Sacramento has more white people than Mexicans, but that is changing.

[jman650]

Originally Posted by DjRey

If you think Sacramento is scary.You would p*** your pants if you went to Brooklyn NY!LOL

Oh I know, Bensonhurst, Park Slope and Williamsburg are frightening! Brooklyn is terrifying!

[jman650]

Originally Posted by LZKay1

I've been to Sacramento multiple times and some parts of it could be compared to Stockton. The same kind of people, etc, especially in South Sac. Sacramento isn't that different than Stockton, it's like the nicer parts of Stockton.

I agree, although the sketchier parts of Stockton I think are worse than the sketchy parts of Sac. And Sac has way more nice parts than Stockton does. But otherwise the two cities are similar in a lot of ways.

Oh yeah, I think Sac smells better than Stockton too!