After reading a lot of threads, I've convinced myself not to move to Sac..

[bluevelo]

Originally Posted by trancey

Does anyone have a reason why I should?

In short, I was offered to live with some friends in South Sac. Not Elk Grove, but the real South Sac.. I really didn't know much about the area, now I'm scared of it.

I live in a nice part of North LA and South Sacramento seems almost like starting over in a rut.. Does anyone have any advice on how the neighborhood could get better or is it really one of the worst parts of town.

Sac is *fine*. South Sac is not, just like East LA. Every large metro area has good and bad parts. I don't think South Sac is as bad as the ghettos in LA, but if you've got a nice place and no real reason to move... don't. But I think Sac is a lot slower paced and safe than LA, SF, SD. Its what you want!

[Alicia64]

My husband lived in a neighborhood for 20 yrs. that directly backed up into Oak Park. He's 6 foot and big. The football coach at the high school asked him several times to play on the team he's so husky (not his thing though).

He had enough experiences and won't go near South Sac. I'm sure there are very generous, warm hearted people living in South Sac -- just as there are warm hearted, sweethearts living in Granite Bay and Folsom -- but you don't live this life looking for trouble.

Does anyone remember what happened to that Sacramento Bee photographer?? No? He was taking "happy" pictures of families in South Sac one morning and . . . oops, turned out it wasn't a happy family. . . they beat the photographer so badly that he never was the same again. I read the Bee daily and all I remember is that he was in the hospital for a long time and didn't regain his full abilities.

You can take the "just give people a chance thing" way, way too far. Common sense has to enter the picture at some point.

And it's reverse discrimination to talk badly about people because they live in a nice neighborhood. It's somehow okay to trash Folsom and Granite Bay people? Yes a certain group is attracted to those areas, but you'll find good people anywhere.

Alley

[CSG]

Is the Pocket Area/Greenhaven considered South Sac? We used to live there before we gave up on California altogether and always thought it was a nice area. We lived on Breakwater and then, temporarily, Bingham Circle while preparing to leave the state.

[sigep739]

Originally Posted by CSG

Is the Pocket Area/Greenhaven considered South Sac? We used to live there before we gave up on California altogether and always thought it was a nice area. We lived on Breakwater and then, temporarily, Bingham Circle while preparing to leave the state.

No... it is considered the Pocket Area ... Still pretty nice. Lots of robberies and burglaries though.

[CSG]

That's too bad. We saw that California was heading south back in the 80's and started preparing to leave but it took us until 1994 to get it altogether. Don't miss it and won't come back except for family visits.

[sigep739]

Originally Posted by CSG

That's too bad. We saw that California was heading south back in the 80's and started preparing to leave but it took us until 1994 to get it altogether. Don't miss it and won't come back except for family visits.

That's a pretty broad brush I mean, California definitely is going downhill.. our economy stinks, our taxes are high, and we are overregulated. But I personally like the area in which I live... it is peaceful, suburban.. nice community feel.

Of course, the unemployment rate is out of this world!