Is Rocklin a suburb of Roseville? (Sacramento, Orange: neighborhoods, good schools, live in)

[Majin]

If so, that means Rocklin is a suburb of a suburb.

[DontKnowIfImComingOrGoing]

Suburb. Boing

[cityx]

Rocklin is the suburb of the Celestial Kingdom.....at least that's what it's residents think.
I's also known as part of California's bible belt.

[CADRMNDANES]

No!

Rocklin is nice Some very nice neighborhoods & good schools.
Don't care for their water company that nickle & dimes you for everything.

[Oldschooler81]

I kinda know what the OP is saying, lol. I wasn't that familar with Rocklin, but it had a slightly different feeling, like it was out of the Sac metro area. I lived in Orangevale (in three different places), and that along with maybe Folsom seemed like the end of the immediate suburbs. Like Rocklin seemed more upscale and slightly rural.

[FlyCalifornia]

NO! Absolutely not!

Rocklin is its own town. Rocklin and Roseville, though they are vastly different in size, are regarded essentially as equals in this corner of the Sacramento Metro area. At least according to locals. Southwest Placer County is the "Roseville/Rocklin area," not just "the Roseville area."

It's hard to explain, but if you were from Rocklin, and met someone from Roseville, you never thought of them as someone from "the big city," like you would in a traditional suburb/city relationship. We're all suburbanites, and live and interact with each other.

Since both cities bleed together, it almost seems like we're just one big city. Many people drive between the two cities daily, for all reasons imagineable. The distinction "Rocklin" or "Roseville" only applies to one's mailing address.

[NewToCA]

Though not specifically the case here, you can have situations where outer ring suburbs actually do become sub-suburbs in large regional areas.

For example, if Roseville is successful in developing a huge jobs center in the Douglas Blvd corridor, I can see where much of the newer development in the general vicinity could be the result of folks working in that area. In effect, their daily reference point becomes the Roseville jobs center, and with all of the retail development already existing in Roseville, the new residents really see this as their central reference point.

It is pretty common back east. Many folks who live in metro Washington DC select their residential locations completely based upon areas such as Bethesda, MD or Reston, VA, which have massive job centers and have developed quasi downtown areas. Both are between 10-15 miles from Washington DC itself.

[Rocketir]

No its not. Many such areas exist. Yuba City/Marysville, Arden/Arcade....

[wburg]

Yuba City/Marysville are two cities that grew up in tandem adjacent to each other. Arden/Arcade doesn't really count because "Arden/Arcade" is the name for a single unincorporated area that tried to form a city but so far hasn't been able to--there isn't a city of Arden and a city of Arcade.

Roseville and Rocklin were both little railroad towns, Roseville more centered on the trains and Rocklin more on quarrying (thus the name.) They were physically separate until pretty recently, up until I think the 1990s there wasn't even a specific boundary between the two cities. Both are suburbs of Sacramento in that people from both cities almost certainly commute into Sacramento. But because job siting is less dependent on central locations in today's postmodern cities, the strict radial relationship of "suburb" to "urb" has become decoupled, resulting in a more complex interrelationship between urban city, suburbs, and exurban cities.

[sarahkate_m]

Originally Posted by NewToCA

Though not specifically the case here, you can have situations where outer ring suburbs actually do become sub-suburbs in large regional areas.

Is that what an x-urb is?

Kate