Rancho Cucamonga or surrounding area??? (Riverside, Pomona: apartment, to rent, job transfer)

[eeyore3305]

My husband is considering a job transfer that will be located in the Fontana/Rancho Cucamonga area so we are looking for information before deciding if we are interested in making the move. Are there specific parts of the city or area that we should avoid? We are hoping he will not have to make a long commute so is there any family oriented communities within a 30-40 minute radius? We do have two young children so would love to have good schools/parks nearby if possible. Any recommendations would be wonderful since we have never been to the area and live out of state so it is hard to tell just by looking online......every cities homepage makes them sound great.....

[Bruin1996]

Originally Posted by eeyore3305

My husband is considering a job transfer that will be located in the Fontana/Rancho Cucamonga area so we are looking for information before deciding if we are interested in making the move. Are there specific parts of the city or area that we should avoid? We are hoping he will not have to make a long commute so is there any family oriented communities within a 30-40 minute radius? We do have two young children so would love to have good schools/parks nearby if possible. Any recommendations would be wonderful since we have never been to the area and live out of state so it is hard to tell just by looking online......every cities homepage makes them sound great.....

I am moving to a job in Fontana and I went with a relocation specialist on a tour of Rancho Cucamonga and I have to say it is quite a nice town if you like a masterplanned community with shops and residential area. There are also excellent schools in Rancho Cucamonga. The relocation specialist described Rancho Cucamonga as being the new, Inland Empire version of Irvine, CA. (Irvine is a really nice town in Orange County if you weren't familiar with it) North Fontana I hear is also quite nice. There are also some other nice, family-oriented communities nearby (within 45 minute commute) such as Upland, Claremont, Pomona, Chino Hills, Diamond Bar, Walnut, south Corona that you might want to take a look at. There are also some nice, less crowded communities to the east of Fontana/RC. There is another thread on areas to avoid in the IE that you might want to take a look at as well. Probably best to rent an apartment for a year while you look around for the best community to settle down in. I would've rented an apartment in RC except my wife got a job in Riverside so we headed south a bit to Eastvale as a nice midpoint between our jobs. Good luck with your decision!

[eeyore3305]

Thanks so much for the info! Sounds like there are more "good" choices than I was aware of. Being such a large/populated area I was afraid of my husband getting stuck with a horrible commute.....ugh!

[Bruin1996]

Originally Posted by eeyore3305

Thanks so much for the info! Sounds like there are more "good" choices than I was aware of. Being such a large/populated area I was afraid of my husband getting stuck with a horrible commute.....ugh!

Not that I live there yet (so please take my words with a grain of salt) but in general you want to live to the west of Fontana to avoid the west bound traffic flowing towards LA in the morning and the east bound traffic flowing out of LA in the evening. Anyone else living/working in the Fontana area have any thoughts on this?

[jtsigma]

You don't want to live in Fontana anyway. Try to live in Rancho Cucamonga or Upland and life will be fine. Rancho Cucamonga a 'masterplanned' community? That's news to me and I doubt that.