Anyone else pick up a weird vibe in Sac? (San Francisco: cul-de-sac, apartment complex)

[wburg]

I didn't like Citrus Heights much...so I moved to Sacramento! All better now.

[matzoman]

That feeling has a name 'soul suck' intuitive people usually feel it in depressed working class commutervilles with lots of banal big box stores.

[DMenscha]

Time to replace the aluminum foil beanie.

[Malloric]

It's your ghetto-dar going off.

[cb73]

I have to agree with the OP. I was born and raised in Sacramento, (Arden Manor), have lived elsewhere, and have been in Carmichael for many years now.

I would love to support the businesses in the Arden area but there's just something about the area I don't like anymore. Yes, the people are increasingly sketchy, but that goes for other areas that don't bother me in the least.

In my opinion, things really started to change during the recession and we started all this us-against-them stuff. First it was evil state employees, then evil rich people, now, what? Evil cops? There's no sense of community like there used to be.

Nowadays I tend to head east and do most of my shopping in Citrus Heights and Orangevale. I really like the community feeling in Orangevale. Just today while getting groceries there was a bake sale going on for a school group and a food drive for the Orangevale Food Closet.

When's the last time you saw any community function going on in Arden-Arcade?

[Tulemutt]

Now wait just a minute here. There's a Whole Foods in Arden. How could there be "negative energy" in proximity to Whole Foods?

[2sleepy]

I think the for the most part the characters in the parking lot of the Walmart on El Camino are sort of interesting. One day I saw a very heavy woman with a huge bow in her hair carrying around a big jar of lollipops, she would approach passerby's and ask them if they would buy one but it was hard to understand her because she was always talking with a lollipop in her mouth. I guess I'm not easily disturbed - or maybe growing up in Richmond and working in Vallejo for over 20 years gave me some degree of immunity to 'dark energy'

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by matzoman

That feeling has a name 'soul suck' intuitive people usually feel it in depressed working class commutervilles with lots of banal big box stores.

Don't know 'bout that but here in the Ozarks we have a place named Toad Suck.

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

Now wait just a minute here. There's a Whole Foods in Arden. How could there be "negative energy" in proximity to Whole Foods?

Haunts reachin' fer yur wallet!

[WizardOfRadical]

Arden Arcade has some very wealthy areas.

A house by the American River just recently broke the local record for selling for 4.75 million and another was listed for over 6 million.

This was in Sierra Oaks Vista.
Sacramento-area home could set record with $6.5 million listing | The Sacramento Bee

That is the thing about most of the Sacramento area. Really nice areas are in proximity to low income areas, until you get get to the outer suburbs.