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Old 05-14-2010, 10:25 AM
 
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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My wife and I are relocating from Boston to SAC in July 2010 and wondering wheres the best place to raise kids/good school? We were told these 2 cities are the best....and to stay north of SAC for cheaper home prices and good schools. Feedback? Location is not an issue. My wife works from home and will communte to SFO one day per week and I just commute in and out of SMF airport 4x/month. We are mainly looking for a "gated community style home" where theres a central clubhouse w/pool, weightroom etc. Anyone belong to a local gym thats clean and has fairly new equipment? We have an LA fitness in Boston thats great....$34/month membership. Open to other cities/towns closer to SFO as well. Thanks for any ideas.

-Shane.
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Old 05-14-2010, 12:15 PM
 
Location: Sacramento
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Hmm, I'd probably start with Whitney Oaks, in Rocklin:

Whitney Oaks Community Association Home Page
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Old 05-14-2010, 02:57 PM
 
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The only difference between roseville and rocklin is the meaningless municipal boundary. They are exactly the same place.
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Old 05-14-2010, 03:04 PM
 
Location: San Leandro
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Not really, roseville has a much larger older part of town. Which effects the socioeconomics of the area much more than rocklins smaller old town area. The high schools in rocklin fall at the top 20th percentile where as Rosevilles are top 30th. Roseville was the size of rockin in 1990. Roseville is much more developed and has a huge deal more of retail. Rocklin is much smaller, less congested, but I get your angle.

The cities very much do resemble each other as they both were small railroad towns and the same developers who paved over fields in roseville, did same thing in rocklin.
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Old 06-03-2010, 12:00 PM
 
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What's your budget?
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Old 06-04-2010, 01:11 AM
 
Location: San Diego (Unv Heights)
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If you're moving from Boston proper, you may feel uncomfortable with Roseville/Rocklin's very conservative politics as well as the rest of Placer County. That is, presuming your left leaning. There are basically two kinds of people that live there: hillbillies or hillbillies with money.
These communties are as bland and diverse as a piece of stale Wonder Bread.

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Old 06-04-2010, 10:59 AM
 
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Since they both border each other is really hard to tell the difference between the two. As far as gated community I think you might have a bigger selection in Roseville, just because of the size of Roseville. Whitney Ranch in Rocklin was mentioned and it is great, has a very nice club house and they are always doing activities for the community. Both areas have a great "family" feel, Rocklin has the slightly better school system, but Roseville's is also great. Roseville might have a better trail system too, so if you like walking or biking that might be a draw. Check out the Crocker Ranch area in Roseville.
These areas are conservative, however I don't think the people are "hillbillies with money" as cityx stated. These areas are prominently family's with educated parents. Best way is to just come out and see.
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Old 06-07-2010, 04:49 PM
 
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So conservatives are hillbillies now? How insightful... and meaningful to the OP. We're lucky to have you, cityx. Any chance you can entertain us with more of your wit and wisdom?
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Old 06-07-2010, 05:07 PM
 
Location: Sacramento, CA
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If you're moving from Boston proper, you may feel uncomfortable with Roseville/Rocklin's very conservative politics as well as the rest of Placer County. That is, presuming your left leaning. There are basically two kinds of people that live there: hillbillies or hillbillies with money.
These communties are as bland and diverse as a piece of stale Wonder Bread.
But compared to Orange County, they're a socialistic paradise.

There are lots of persons - like myself - that consider themselves conservative democrats if you put a label on us - liberal on most social issues (I'm pretty much OK with everything except legalize of drugs, including pot, and I want welfare ended), but we are really tired of our money being thrown away on far-left social engineering that doesn't work.

I'm certainly not a hillbilly. I grew up in the Midwest, have a BA in liberal arts and a MA in transportation planning. I prefer cities and I actually live down in Sacramento proper on the 'po side' of East Sacramento (Tahoe Park) in a fairly diverse neighborhood. But I am a conservative if your definition is someone who doesn't automatically punch the D when I vote... and the *only* reason I don't vote Republican more often is because of their insistence on forcing a version of God into people's lives and control over your body and your choices (i.e., banning abortion and stem cell research - two positions that are entirely run on emotion and not on fact).
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Old 06-08-2010, 12:36 PM
 
Location: Lake Havasu
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Can we say then, not all conservatives are hillbillies, but most hillbillies are conservative..
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