Best Place to Raise a Family in California (Sacramento, Santa Clara: fit in, apartment)

[Chimérique]

Best Place to Raise a Family in California

According to this list:

https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst...ifornia/15993/

FOLSOM, CA it's a city in Sacramento County next to Folsom Lake and the American River, where the Sacramento Valley meets the Sierra Nevada Foothills.

Intel's Research & Development calls it home and infamous Folsom Prison.

It about 20 mins from downtown Sac and within 1/2 hour of the the high country of the Sierra Nevada.

[NoMoreSnowForMe]

Folsom has great schools, but it's very snobby, in my opinion. It's also not very diverse. And expensive.

So, if you can afford it, and you don't care about diversity (as in being around people who aren't white), it's a decent place to live.

It was way too beige for me. And by that, I mean literally. It's like there is some local ordinance that all housing developments must have beige colored houses, in lots of housing developments where all the houses look the same, other than the downtown area.

Give me the diversity and colorfulness of the SF Bay Area - or Sacramento - any day of the week over Folsom.

[pacific2]

If I'm reading this correctly, this is not the absolute wealthiest ranking, but the "Best Bang for Your Buck" category where there is, relatively, a little bit of moola. If so, I agree with #5, Aliso Viejo.

https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst...ifornia/15993/

Highest Median Family Income
(Adjusted for Cost of Living)

1. El Dorado Hills, CA
2. Folsom, CA
3. Danville, CA
4. San Ramon, CA
5. Aliso Viejo, CA

[aslowdodge]

Originally Posted by NoMoreSnowForMe

Folsom has great schools, but it's very snobby, in my opinion. It's also not very diverse. And expensive.

So, if you can afford it, and you don't care about diversity (as in being around people who aren't white), it's a decent place to live.

It was way too beige for me. And by that, I mean literally. It's like there is some local ordinance that all housing developments must have beige colored houses, in lots of housing developments where all the houses look the same, other than the downtown area.

Give me the diversity and colorfulness of the SF Bay Area - or Sacramento - any day of the week over Folsom.

I'm going to assume you yourself have lived there and experienced this snobbishness you speak of. Did you yourself or your kids experience this?

[ryanst530]

These lists are about as useful as me telling you the best place to take your vacation, or the best food to eat, or the best way to spend your saturdays.

It's all highly subjective. The truth is, these lists are created for click-bait ad revenue.

[capoeira]

Originally Posted by NoMoreSnowForMe

Folsom has great schools, but it's very snobby, in my opinion. It's also not very diverse. And expensive.

So, if you can afford it, and you don't care about diversity (as in being around people who aren't white), it's a decent place to live.

Folsom is diverse. For example Folsom High is only about 60% white and 40% other races.

https://school-ratings.com/school_de...303433216.html

Also Folsom has a 31,000 sq. ft. 99 Ranch market. Its the premier Sacramento area destination for Asian groceries!

https://www.yelp.com/biz/99-ranch-market-folsom-folsom

Folsom is also low priced compared to the Bay area. One can get a small livable house for just over 500k.

Compare to almost 1.2 million for an apartment sized house in Santa Clara.

The only problem with Folsom is the summer heat!

[nightlysparrow]

Originally Posted by Chimérique

Best Place to Raise a Family in California

FOLSOM, CA it's a city in Sacramento County next to Folsom Lake and the American River, where the Sacramento Valley meets the Sierra Nevada Foothills..

And Folsom sits right below the 70-year old Folsom Dam!

[BeauCharles]

Originally Posted by NoMoreSnowForMe

It's also not very diverse.

Folsom is 30% non-white. Sacramento County (where its located) is 50% non-white. How much more "diverse" do you need? Do whites need to be a minority? If that's the case you've made some really strange relocation choices during the time I've noticed you in the forums.

[NoMoreSnowForMe]

Originally Posted by aslowdodge

I'm going to assume you yourself have lived there and experienced this snobbishness you speak of. Did you yourself or your kids experience this?

Yes, I lived there for about a year and was glad to move. The person I lived with had a kid in high school there and the high school was beyond awesome. The city had just finished the state of the art performance theater on the high school campus the previous year. It's a very wealthy, well-funded school district. So, a great place to get your kid into - assuming you're okay with it being very white. I'm not sure the experience would be so great if you weren't white - as far as the kids go.

My friend's kid was extremely tall for his age, and the kids were really unkind to him - even though he was also white. So, I'm not sure it would be a welcoming place for kids who weren't rich and white.

I just know, that as a woman who was well-educated, but not from an ivy-league college, and not working at a high salary job, it was really uncomfortable for me as far as trying to fit in with the people in Folsom who were very much into their designer clothes and expensive haircuts and dye jobs and plastic surgery, etc.

Folsom is kind of like the L.A/Hollywood of northern CA, from my experience, as far as wealthy people who are shallow as far as needing to be beautiful and appear to be wealthy and dress in the clothing that is the popular style, etc.

The man I was involved with at the time worked for Apple, had filed for bankruptcy, was living on a shoestring - but was putting on airs that he was much more well-off then he really was. I found this to be the culture in Folsom. I didn't like it at all. I found most people to be very fake and all about appearances.

I would also expect the schools to be the same way, as far as how kids treat each other. I know my friend's kid really suffered from being different, and the only thing that was different about him was his unusual height.

[NoMoreSnowForMe]

Originally Posted by capoeira

Folsom is diverse. For example Folsom High is only about 60% white and 40% other races.

https://school-ratings.com/school_de...303433216.html

Also Folsom has a 31,000 sq. ft. 99 Ranch market. Its the premier Sacramento area destination for Asian groceries!

https://www.yelp.com/biz/99-ranch-market-folsom-folsom

Folsom is also low priced compared to the Bay area. One can get a small livable house for just over 500k.

Compare to almost 1.2 million for an apartment sized house in Santa Clara.

The only problem with Folsom is the summer heat!

"Only" 60% white. Look at the breakdown. 3% black. To me, this is a real indicator of real diversity.

That means that in a classroom of 30 kids, less than 1 kid (.9) is black. So, kids in Folsom probably don't have even 1 black kid in most of their classes.

There's 15% Asian kids. So, there might be 4 Asian kids in a classroom.

There might be 3 Hispanic kids at about 13% Hispanic.

This is not diverse. 60% white is not diverse.