Best neighborhood to rent on a 100k salary

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Originally Posted by thelopez2

Is something wrong with living in Santa Monica?

Not at all

Originally Posted by jm1982

Yeah Santa Monica is nice area and you will be able to live there on the salary .

Just curious you said last time you moved to America you got stuck in the bad neighborhood was that in California too ?

I'm America generally the higher income areas are nicer and have less crime .

Cleaner , safer , more things to do restaurants etc .

It's probably this way everywhere

I lived in San Diego, Pacific Beach. Right between beachwood and banana bungalow (Oliver Place). It was close to the water, but all my neighbors where drug addicts and very strange to say it mildly.

[jm1982]

Oh ok , interesting since I was in San Diego recently in the pacific beach area .
I did notice that it seemed like it had more homeless and drug addicts than the other parts of San Diego I had been to.

It kind of reminded me a bit of a Venice Beach feel actually .

One good thing about Santa Monica is that it's a city separate from Los Angeles. So their services like police etc are different .
This is why Santa Monica , culver city , burbank look a lot nicer and cleaner overall versus a lot of la.

There are quite a few homeless because Santa Monica is very liberal but crime is quite low .

[LuvSouthOC]

Originally Posted by jm1982

Oh ok , interesting since I was in San Diego recently in the pacific beach area .
I did notice that it seemed like it had more homeless and drug addicts than the other parts of San Diego I had been to.

It kind of reminded me a bit of a Venice Beach feel actually .

One good thing about Santa Monica is that it's a city separate from Los Angeles. So their services like police etc are different .
This is why Santa Monica , culver city , burbank look a lot nicer and cleaner overall versus a lot of la.

There are quite a few homeless because Santa Monica is very liberal but crime is quite low .

I used to live in La Jolla and always found Pacific Beach to be trashy and filled with throngs of thongs. I used to go to the Trader Joes there, but really, the scene reminded me of Florida's Daytona Beach. I went to a couple bars there with some friends and found it blase. Ugh, not my thing. Ibiza it aint, that's for sure. I wonder how things are there now. It was so boring then; no counter culture or anything except the visible high rates of that gross meth, and the over-drinking that comes with collegiate types.

[OyCrumbler]

There are plenty of decent places in Santa Monica and the neighboring cities for that salary. Do you have any more details on what you're looking for and what you're interested in? Do you have a ceiling on how much you're wiling to spend and how big of a place you want? Do you have a preference for a lot of mass transit available? Do you have a ceiling on what your commute time is and how important that is to you?

[kasuga888]

Also cross reference Crime Mapping - Building Safer Communities! and use google streetview to check out the surrounding area.


After taxes, 2500 a month is still alot of money for a person making 100k to spend on an apartmet.

[YoungTraveler2011]

Originally Posted by kasuga888

After taxes, 2500 a month is still alot of money for a person making 100k to spend on an apartmet.

Agreed on this. Unless you have $0 car payments.

You want to spend less than 2k on rent + utilities.