Lake Merritt (Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose: crime rate, neighborhood, public schools)

[Yvetta]

Lake Merritt is beautiful.

Lake Merritt is a focal point, it stands as the jewel of Oakland, even crowned with lights. A unique fresh and salt-water lake, the largest such lake located within an urban area consisting of 3.4 miles around the circumference of the lake, covering 155 acres of land. The depth of Lake Merritt varies upon how much water is allowed to filter in from the Estuary and upon rain water intake.
With adjacent and nearby parks and amenities to enjoy such as Snow Park where you may play several rounds of golf, walk or jog up and down the Cleveland Cascades, play a set of tennis at the Athol Tennis Courts, rent a kayak at the Lake Merritt Boating Center, read a book from the Main or Lakeview Library, or bring your magical keys to enjoy a whole new world at Children's Fairyland ~ the fun begins here.
Lake Merritt



Also try visiting the Rose Garden. Thousands of various roses.

Morcom Rose Garden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[oaktowndiver]

the lake area is nice, but there are guns everywhere in Oakland, and thus bullets hitting your windows are possible.

[Yvetta]

Originally Posted by oaktowndiver

the lake area is nice, but there are guns everywhere in Oakland, and thus bullets hitting your windows are possible.

Where'd you get that information? I've lived in the lake area a while.
Do a crime search offered by the OPD and you will find little to no crime in that area. I've never heard a gun shot and people are out walking their dogs at 10:00 at night.
As for guns they are everywhere
Some other states even allow them to be displayed in public.
The crime in Oakalnd the media continually harps on is in the turf areas of East and sometimes west Oakland, so don't attempt to characterize the entire beautiful city by the bad apples who are unfortunate to live lives of crime and despair.

[WesternGulf]

I live east of Lake Meritt near the Parkway Theater and if my part of Lake Merritt is considered the seedier side of the lake, it says a lot about the general safeness of the Lake Merritt area in general. I can say there are a lot of hit or miss type places in my neighborhood as far as apartments, very diverse architecturally and sometimes that can be a bad thing, but in the few months I have lived in the neighborhood, noticeable changes have occured for the good. I grabbed my place for pretty cheap. $750 for a studio in a 1920's walk up building but I see rent has went up in some of the units still available since the property management changed. Anyway, I would consider looking in the Lakeside Apartment district. Never ending list of rentals in the area. Very structurally dense but mostly residential and lacks retail options in the area atleast in comfortable walking distance but still a beautiful neighborhood.

[City Boy]

Originally Posted by oaktowndiver

the lake area is nice, but there are guns everywhere in Oakland, and thus bullets hitting your windows are possible.

Troll

[BayDude]

Originally Posted by oaktowndiver

the lake area is nice, but there are guns everywhere in Oakland, and thus bullets hitting your windows are possible.

Hilarious! You just brightened my day.

Thanks.

(good logic BTW) Oakland + guns = broken windows. Thats a no brainer.

[Gentoo]

Wow! look at all the bullets flying! Don't know how me, being a photographer and carrying around money's worth of photo equipment ever got out of there with my gear let alone my life.

Then they shot at me again and I fired back


That'll show that thuggish fountain!

Visit Oakland and be fair when you do before you talk please.

[Yvetta]

Thank you, Gentoo. People need to get their facts straight.
Oakland is a beautiful city.
Did you know there were over 150 languages spoken here? And we are the 2nd most diverse city in the country.

According to the 2000 U.S. census, Oakland and Long Beach, California are the most ethnically diverse cities in the United States; more than 150 languages are spoken in Oakland.[5] Attractions include Jack London Square, the Oakland Zoo, the Oakland Museum of California, the Chabot Space and Science Center, Lake Merritt, the East Bay Regional Park District ridge line parks and preserves, and Chinatown.

Oakland, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[NorCal Dude]

Watch out for the heroin needles lying around in the park, I dang near pricked myself a few years back on a park bench.

Stay away from the lake after dark, lots of prostitutes conducting business and lots of people hanging out at the lake to get high.

[Ultrarunner]

Originally Posted by NorCal Dude

Watch out for the heroin needles lying around in the park, I dang near pricked myself a few years back on a park bench.

Stay away from the lake after dark, lots of prostitutes conducting business and lots of people hanging out at the lake to get high.

Care to give a location?