Beaumont California (Rancho Cucamonga, Highland, Palm Springs: relocating, apartments, income)

[California Bound]

I have been reading comments about Beaumont. I have just purchased a new home in Beaumont on a golf course. My husband was recently relocated from Michigan. He took out a year lease on an apartment in Rancho Cucamonga thinking it would take a years to sell the house because of our economy here - no jobs - companies moving out - auto industry failing. It was listed for 2 weeks and sold. We were shocked. I ran out to california and found a nice home in Beaumont. Everything was so rushed. The new high school looked nice. We come from Northville, MI - the schools are terrific - ours are ranked in top 4 in Detroit metro area. Now when I look at rankings in California - Beaumont did not do well - plus we have now been warned that there are gangs there. My heart sank. We have a son entering high school. why are they ranked so low? Northville schools rank an 8. Beaumont schools rank a 3 out of 10.

[charriiee]

Maybe they are ranked 3 but how long ago ? There is only 1 high school in Beaumont now there might be 2. This is a small town of friendly people, most of the homes here are new single family homes with young families. There are no gangs, nobody is even on the streets past 8:00pm during the summer and winter 7:00pm. We have a lighting ordinance that does not allow a bunch of street lights and bright spot lights that obstruct the view at nite of the stars. I think they were referring to Banning Ca which is our neighboor. There is alot of color there and low income, however there is not any gang activity that Im aware of and one night coming home from a Halloween party I was pretty drunk and I decided I could walk home. here I was at 2:30 in the am walking down 6 th Street. Nobody bothered me and I ended up asking these people for a ride from the gas station. No problems. Anyway Beaumont is good... great place to raise a family.

[ObsidianGT]

Beaumont is certainly not the best place but it is getting better. Lots of new home construction going on during the last few years. Stay away from Banning, that place is pretty bad. The 8-10 block area that's north of the I-10 freeway that neighbors Banning (from Highland Springs Ave and west just past Beaumont Ave) is pretty bad. But again, I think that's because of the Banning influence.

The northern areas past those first 8-10 blocks are decent, but south of I-10 is looking very nice, and just west of Beaumont Ave is also very nice.

South of I-10 has a new Home Depot, Super Wal-Mart, Chili's, and lots of other smaller and larger business that I can't remember right now.

I heard Beaumont is getting a Best Buy in that area soon. That's sweet! I'll be driving up from San Jacinto all the time now.

I don't know about the High School situation, but it's certainly more of a "small town" place than the neighboring cities. Although, there's a pretty bad meth problem in the bad areas (that seems to be the case in most of SoCal nowadays).

Teach your kid about drugs (DON'T MAKE IT A TABOO SUBJECT). Let them know that people RESPECT intelligence and meth just kills your brain cells.

[Sambazon]

Did you happen to buy your house at that Tournament Hills golf course? My parents bought a house there too (with hopes of people renting it out), but to me, it seemed like a waste of money seeing as how activities are pretty limited around that area.

Someone please prove me wrong and tell me my parents didn't just buy that house for nothing...?

[ElizaAngel]

Charlie you walk around town drunk and have to get rides from strangers at 2:30 in the morning to go home??? And you say it's a great town to raise a family? People like YOU are the reason it is so horrible. Beaumont is full of mostly welfare families, drug addicts and alcoholics. I grew up there and moved out right after high school because I wanted a better life. I lived there most of my life and don't know one single person in that town that went to college except for the new out of towners that are now buying up all the new homes. Charlie, did you go to high school in Beaumont? Because I did and there certainly are gangs. They arent typical gangs per se, but there are a couple of large families who pretty much run the town. If you cross them, they will shoot you. They rob homes, deal drugs, and they do what they want and take what they want and the police don't do much about it.Everyone that has lived there any amount of time knows them and that's close enough to a gang for me. I moved to Palm Springs when I had children because I did not want them going to school and being raised in a town that is 80% white trailer trash and 20% violent drug addicts!

[donnalamb]

I am just trying to find out some information about Beaumont I just read some of the comments and now it got me thinking should I move there are not. I am relocating from Walls, Mississippi but the apartments that I seleted to stay in are the Tuscany Villa apartment. Can you tell me a little bit about that part of town.

Donna Lambert