How's Yuba City? (Redding, Roseville, Monterey: rent, crime, houses)

[tiger2352]

i currently live in sacramento and have visited yuba city only a couple times (my second time was yesterday). What i liked is how friendly the people are, i mean they seem to want to have a conversation and are helpful in giving you directions. Do people in yuba city really are more friendly and social, than let's say sacramento?

I was looking for somewhere to move where people are friendly, crime is low, houses are cheap and with places to visit and things to do. Should i look more into moving there?

[edwardius]

The unemployment situation there is really bad.

Yuba City and Redding Have Two Of The Highest Unemployment Rates In The Country - CBS 12 Action News

Some people were commuting into Sac or Roseville. But if gas prices go back up again, you might regret that decision.

The place is really cheap. But when its that cheap and their are that many people unemployed, you end up with lots of social problems.

[dhmunoz]

I was born and raised in Yuba City, and lived there for 30+ years. Crime is NOT low there and the gang situation is getting out of control. There are lots of drugs and other social problems, and I'm talking a LOT for the size of the city. It's not cheap, either. A 3-bedroom house in a decent area is still going to run $1200-$1400 a month. We live in Nebraska now, in a nice city roughly the same size and I could rent the same house in a similar neigborhood here for about $600. No bullets whizzing by us, and no one asking my kids if they are down with Norteno or Sureno, either.

[Curmudgeon]

There's a city in Yuba? Imagine that!

[Majin]

Originally Posted by dhmunoz

I was born and raised in Yuba City, and lived there for 30+ years. Crime is NOT low there and the gang situation is getting out of control. There are lots of drugs and other social problems, and I'm talking a LOT for the size of the city. It's not cheap, either. A 3-bedroom house in a decent area is still going to run $1200-$1400 a month. We live in Nebraska now

I stopped reading there.

[dhmunoz]

LOL....you can stop reading all you like, but it doesn't change the fact that the Yuba City/Marysville area is a craphole!

If I ever move back to California, it would be to the Monterey area. Everything inland is too ghetto nowadays, and far more expensive than it's worth. I don't mind paying for quality but I have to find it first!

[Majin]

Originally Posted by dhmunoz

but it doesn't change the fact that the Yuba City/Marysville area is a craphole!

You'll get no argument from me.

Originally Posted by dhmunoz

Everything inland is too ghetto nowadays

Yeah, really ghetto

Enjoy Nebraska, I'll be out boating on the river with topless hot chicks on the river

[handiquack]

Well, in his defense, not everything is ghetto but there are quite a few unfavorable parts of the area. I'd say YC and Marysville are pretty craptacular - I'd personally never live there.

I think I'd just be bored in Nebraska. Talk about flat.

[dhmunoz]

We moved from Yuba City because we personally thought it was no longer tolerable. Sure, it's nice to be within a couple hours from everything...but on a day-to-day basis that means living in a place that sucks. I think I'm qualified to judge considering I was born there, and lived there most of my life.

Nebraska being flat is a popular misconception. It's only flat in the Platte river valley, where Interstate 80 is. Since that's all that most people see when driving through, that's what they assume the entire state is like. It's nice though and there's no shortage of things to do. There are more lakes here than there are in California.

[ThatOneDude]

Plumas Lake!