Moving from Berkeley to Sacramento Area for School...I'm scared! (Davis: apartment complex, gated)

[clongirl]

Originally Posted by absurd_planet

Clongirl wrote, speaking of Sacramento:

''It's actually more culturally diverse than the Bay Area in terms of different nationalities.''

According to the U.S. census, Oakland and Long Beach, California are the most ethnically diverse cities in the United States.

Well, I certainly didn't think that calling Sac "diverse" would cause such a stir! I can't be too far off either way.. Welcome to America's Most Diverse City - TIME

I'm going away now folks 'cause I'm growing weary of all the "right sayers" that have to argue and over analyze every tidbit of info/opinion/experience that I've had living there.

Good luck to the OP..you'll be fine!

[WillMak]

Originally Posted by nmnita

why did you choose Sac State if you were so worried about whether you would like it or not?

I do wonder what is really going on here? You are leaving for college, school is about to start and you don't have a place to live yet plus you wonder if you should live in Davis and go to Sac State? I think there is something not quite fitting into this picture? Did you decide to go to school in Sacramento without visiting? I would think you would know what was around the school had you seen the campus.

Nita

Wow lots of people answered my post while I was away! nmnita I'm actually not attending Sac State but a different uni in sac. I already got my Undergrad from UC Berkeley and I am applying to Masters Programs for Nurse Practitioning. There are very few programs that offer direct entry MSN RN to Family Nurse Practitioner programs so I applied to a bunch of different schools to increase my chances of getting in. For example, the school I got in accepts only 21 students per graduating class.

It's one of the schools I got in but I haven't finished applications for other schools in the fall so a part of my dillema is to live in Sac and go to school there or not accept my admission and try to get into a program closer in the bay area. Of course, if I don't get into one in the bay...I will waste a lot of time. :-( Accept a sure thing in sac or reject it and risk not getting in anywhere else...sigh I don't know what to do!

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by WillMak

Wow lots of people answered my post while I was away! nmnita I'm actually not attending Sac State but a different uni in sac. I already got my Undergrad from UC Berkeley and I am applying to Masters Programs for Nurse Practitioning. There are very few programs that offer direct entry MSN RN to Family Nurse Practitioner programs so I applied to a bunch of different schools to increase my chances of getting in. For example, the school I got in accepts only 21 students per graduating class.

It's one of the schools I got in but I haven't finished applications for other schools in the fall so a part of my dillema is to live in Sac and go to school there or not accept my admission and try to get into a program closer in the bay area. Of course, if I don't get into one in the bay...I will waste a lot of time. :-( Accept a sure thing in sac or reject it and risk not getting in anywhere else...sigh I don't know what to do!

ok, that explains it, so you are not starting school in a couple of weeks. Our granddaughter in OK just did a similar program at OU.

Good luck, I happen to really like Sacramento and Davis as well. As for the Sac weather, as has been mentioned it is only really warm a few months out of the year. The rest of the time it is very nice.

NIta

[wburg]

I assume you will also be looking for work while at school, and another argument in favor of Sacramento is that there are a lot of hospitals and medical offices in Sacramento's central city. UC Davis' medical center and teaching hospital, for example, is located in Sacramento, along with several other large hospital complexes.

If you've got a sure thing, go for it. Sacramento isn't that far from the Bay Area--a lot of folks I know drive or take the train to the Bay Area for day trips if they want to see some band whose tour doesn't hit Sacramento, or they just want a break from the heat in August. But, as several folks have pointed out, there is plenty here to keep you busy when you're not in school--and plenty of places to study.

[manda777]

Originally Posted by WillMak

Oh thats good to hear. How much is Rent usually? I'm use to paying 800 or so for rent in Berkeley. Where would be good places to live? My school is off the west el camino exit on the 80.

$800 for the whole apartment or sharing with someone in Berkeley?
It sound slike you're a UOP student. Commute will eb not to far form downtown and midtown or Natomas. I'll someone else answer the rent in downtown/midtown. In Natomas, South Natomas will be cheaper than north Natomas and closer to your shool.

Originally Posted by WillMak

Oh I see you guys reccomended me to live in midtown sac. How much is rent there usually?

[manda777]

Originally Posted by Majin

Ok then, explain it to me. After visiting Berkeley many times in the past (had some friends that went to school there). Staying there a few weeks over the summer (but never living there). I found the people in Berkeley pretty much the same as Sac and my friends that went to Berkeley never told me about any kind "culture shock" moving from Sac to Berkeley.

I don't understand and neither do the people I know who have made the move. Please explain.

If you are a furringer like me, i.e. grew up abroad and have been ;living in US, life is pretty more or less the same unless, it's comparison beteene different states.

[Shope]

Originally Posted by manda777

$800 for the whole apartment or sharing with someone in Berkeley?
It sound slike you're a UOP student. Commute will eb not to far form downtown and midtown or Natomas. I'll someone else answer the rent in downtown/midtown. In Natomas, South Natomas will be cheaper than north Natomas and closer to your shool.

There's no way she has a comparable 1 bedroom apartment in Berkeley for $800, that is definitley splitting rent with at least 1 other person.

[Mr. Ozo]

You can rent a decent one-bedroom apartment in Midtown for 650, if you want to pay more you get a nice flat for 1000.

[Majin]

Originally Posted by Mr. Ozo

You can rent a decent one-bedroom apartment in Midtown for 650, if you want to pay more you get a nice flat for 1000.

I find that hard to believe. Back in 2002 I paid $700 for a studio.

[wburg]

Rents in the central city have dropped, and a lot depends on the neighborhood--people use "midtown" to describe anything in the grid, but a brand new condo-turned-apartment in Poverty Ridge will rent for considerably more than a janky basement apartment in Alkali Flat.