City Terrace - The Last Affordable Area in LA With Hills and Views (Los Angeles: real estate, home)

[Cream1]

Originally Posted by anrev

Seirously, that's what I was thinking. I bought a home in NW Pasadena in 2003 waiting for that to gentrify.


I sold it in 2013. Did ok, but man the neighborhood was WORSE! No gentrification went on there.

Just curious, why did you think NW Pasadena would gentrify?

[anrev]

I didn't really. It was all I could afford. So I bought a place anyway, and hoped for the best!

house cost 215k. Ya can't beat that with a stick!

[silverkris]

Originally Posted by Nafster

What about Baldwin Hills? I could be wrong and granted, it's by the oil fields but isn't that area relatively affordable and a good neighborhood?

Baldwin Hills is an affluent, well-established majority African American neighborhood. Fair number of celebrities, professionals live there. It's not a "gentrifying" neighborhood because the money has long been there.

[SpaceMonkyPunks]

Originally Posted by socal88

2. Locked in by 4 freeways with some of the worst pollution in the city

This is actually the biggest red flag for me, not even the safety factor.

Even if it was the safest place in Los Angeles, living there long-term will have significant, negative impacts on your health. It would be a terrible place to raise children from infancy, making it extremely likely that they will develop asthma and/or other respiratory problems.

Originally Posted by Miss Pip

Yeah I'm hearing a lot of outdated information here and there's a lot of underlying racism going on too, which some may not even realise about themselves.!

"I was there a year ago" and "comparing it to Koreatown" is neither of those things.

I get that you like this area, it's well within your right, good for you. But discounting and lashing out at everyone who disagrees with you is super immature. (In fact, it just makes you look like you're desperately trying to convince yourself that the purchase will, in fact, pay off......just being honest, that's how you sound.)

[Taiko]

Originally Posted by silverkris

Baldwin Hills is an affluent, well-established majority African American neighborhood. Fair number of celebrities, professionals live there. It's not a "gentrifying" neighborhood because the money has long been there.

You see that a lot on this forum where gentrification seems to mean the white grandchildren of the folks who fled because Ray Charles moved in and opened his pool to the occasional party with the local white and black kids have started to buy back into the neighborhood.

[WizardOfRadical]

It is a crappy area. Just because it is on a hill does not mean it is nice. Nicer than the areas below the hill? Sure. But not a pleasant place to live by any means.

[LamarOdomsDealer]

I have a friend who bought a house near there a few years (I don't know the exact name of the neighborhood- it's a few miles from Pasadena and now I'm thinking I just lost my sense of LA direction). The area was getting gentrified. Small houses sort of up hill and were old but quaint. Her community was a mix of white Hipster types and Hispanic people who I assumed have lived there for years. It was a decent area but not for me.

[Nerdlord]

Originally Posted by Cream1

Just curious, why did you think NW Pasadena would gentrify?

Why wouldn't it?

Property values have doubled and tripled over the past 20 years. The people that are buying homes there today are significantly more wealthy than those that bought in the 60's and 70's.

Crime is down, areas are starting to look nicer, gang activity is down. The schools are still pretty bad, but that's usually the case in most gentrifying neighborhoods.

[r0x]

have been scouring this board and the discussions. am wondering if anyone has any updated opinions on the area?

a bit of background on myself that could inform your answers and what i'm looking for in terms of feedback.

i grew up in echo park when it was a truly frightening place and towards the end of my time there, people would always ask 'are you sure you want to live there?'. from the 70's until the early aughts it was a bit neglected (and worse) though always transitional feeling, with great economic and demographic diversity.

today, echo park has become pretty unrecognizable, and tbh, has become a rich person's playground. nice to have more things to do in the area, but the character and neighborhood feeling has become so much less friendly - from the perspective of a (white collar/creative field) brown person.

i've been looking into the area of city terrace, as it reminds me a bit of how echo park used to be, complete with roosters crowing from time to time. the only thing that seems to be missing is nightlife and interesting venues that are accessible on foot. (since i currently am staying on the western edge of ktown, i've grown accustomed to that accessibility. however the amount of crime and vagrancy in ktown and even near the mayoral residence has been fairly high and seems to be on the rise)

i'd love to hear some recent opinions/experiences of city terrace. crime rates/types? friendliness of the residents? activities/stores that are nearby. anything.

thanks!

[sean1the1]

Originally Posted by r0x

have been scouring this board and the discussions. am wondering if anyone has any updated opinions on the area?

a bit of background on myself that could inform your answers and what i'm looking for in terms of feedback.

i grew up in echo park when it was a truly frightening place and towards the end of my time there, people would always ask 'are you sure you want to live there?'. from the 70's until the early aughts it was a bit neglected (and worse) though always transitional feeling, with great economic and demographic diversity.

today, echo park has become pretty unrecognizable, and tbh, has become a rich person's playground. nice to have more things to do in the area, but the character and neighborhood feeling has become so much less friendly - from the perspective of a (white collar/creative field) brown person.

i've been looking into the area of city terrace, as it reminds me a bit of how echo park used to be, complete with roosters crowing from time to time. the only thing that seems to be missing is nightlife and interesting venues that are accessible on foot. (since i currently am staying on the western edge of ktown, i've grown accustomed to that accessibility. however the amount of crime and vagrancy in ktown and even near the mayoral residence has been fairly high and seems to be on the rise)

i'd love to hear some recent opinions/experiences of city terrace. crime rates/types? friendliness of the residents? activities/stores that are nearby. anything.

thanks!

Yeah, I've been to city Terrance many times it does have beautiful views, and roosters as you said. Lol there are a few Mexican clubs, but definitely not like K-town since you grew up in the dark times of echo Park, city Terrance is definitely an upgrade to that, but with the authenticity you're looking for. I'd go for it!