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    What can you tell me about living in California? Right now I'm not talking about the best strip clubs, or the best place to make money, but the best place to LIVE. Where you can find great apartments, lots of stuff to do, what the city is like, what's less expensive, ect.

    I'd like to live somewhere kind of close to L.A. or Santa Monica. Just talk to me in general about living in California. Even just little things, because I'm a Minnesota native, and don't know much of anything about it.

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    Be prepared to pay at least $2,500 for a halfway decent apartment.$1,500 for a really sh*tty one.It's a given that places closer to the coast are going to be more expensive.San Diego is slightly more afforable than LA.Like I said,slightly.The weather can't be beat,though.
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    working well for me

    hate the food, love the weather
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    Yeah,the food is bland.
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    The best place to live depends on how much you can afford and what type of area you want. The rents I am giving are for rent for a 1 bed 1 bath apartment with ac, heat, dishwasher . here's a map it will make more sense of what I'm talking about city wise http://www.losangelesalmanac.com/LA/lamap2.htm

    near Santa Monica (not near the beach)/West LA is around 1000 a month. Near the beach Santa Monica/Marina Del Rey/Pacific Palisades/Venice at least walking distance of a couple blocks to over looking 1700 and up depending on square feet.
    Brentwood, Malibu, Bel Air, Beverly Crest, Westwood, Beverly Hills are just plainly too expensive. Studio apartments there start at 2000 and up.
    West Hollywood where all the known night clubs are is pricey too probably in the same range as Santa Monica. To live here is a little pricey from the local grocery stores, restaurants, stores etc.
    Hollywood if you get a little closer to the Faifax district or W. Hollywood is okay but the prices are steep and the space is little. Now you have to be very careful with looking in Hollywood especially the more east you go the more the area gets shady.
    Silverlake area is nice but again its one of those places you cross 2 blocks and you are in Echo Park. Rent is not too bad but alot of rental places say it's Sliverlake to get the amount of rent they are looking for but it's really Echo Park.
    Downtown LA/ Central City there's nothing going on. I know they are trying to sell/rent a bunch of Lofts there now starting at 1300 a month. Then some areas get shady too.
    Stay out of most of south and southeast Los angeles, Korea Town, Pico Union, Westlake, ChinaTown, Boyle Heights, E. LA, Lincoln Heights, Lennox, Watts.
    Now Los Angeles Metro area is huge so going more inland/south bay is going to result in cheaper rent, 800 a month or so, but not so nice surrounding area. This is for areas like Bellflower, Norwalk, Bell, Torrance, Gardena, Long Beach, Huntington Park, Gardena.

    There's the San Fernando Valley too. All the base hill communities Tarzana, Woodland Hills, Encino, Sherman Oaks,Studio City (on the border of the Beverly Crest, Brentwood, Bel air) are nice but again pricey from 1200 and up.
    Burbank is nice it is an unicorportated area of Los Angeles so they have their own police vs. having the LAPD. Again rent there is anywhere 900 and up.
    There are iffy places in the valley that you can find good areas but there's shady part but it's not terrible like parts of North Hollywood, Arleta, Canoga Park, Winnetka, Chatsworth, Reseda, Northridge, Mission Hills, North Hills. Rent comes anywhere from 800 and up. The parts of the Valley to pretty much avoid are Pacoima, Sun Valley, Sylmar, Northern part of Van Nuys. Rent is cheaper but really not worth it.

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    food is bland?? I live near a lot of resturants so maybe I don't get this. I have lived in San Diego and hated it. I lived in Ocean Beach and Carlsbad.

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    Trying living in New Orleans and then going back to Cali and taste the food there.The food there is bland.
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    I went to Boston for a couple of weeks and couldn't stand eating at any place around my area they really can do it up there in bean town.

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    CA is a basically a nice place to live but you have to be willing to put up w/ some poo; such as, high rent, crazy laws, and traffic ALOTTA traffic. Otherwise that its nice and there isnt any extreme weather except for mini earthquakes sometimes.
    I live in Sacramento (norcal) and now Im in SD. Sac is mostly a small home town feel ...about under a million people all spread out. I had an apartment in Antelope just outside of Sacramento limits for about $740/month ...really nice till it got broken into (but those were other factors).
    Here in SD and apt is like $750-$2000+!! $750 will get u a shack in the shotty part of town or in the middle BFN. The $2000+ will get you a small townhome like setting but not much for sqaure footage. The sqr footage here is alot smaller than any other state IMO besides NY.
    My advice is make sure you have alot of money when you come here no matter where you live in the southern part of CA you will need it. You know the deal deposit 1st and last months rent. Gas is higher here. The flow of money seems different than compared to northern CA. Make alot of time to get places.....back home took me 15min to get anywhere there...here takes me 20-40min to go somewhere.
    My question is ...are you going to just pack it up and start driving or are you going to visit here 1st?
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    i would definetly say visit here first before you move.

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    They have some mexican food here is nice...much better than yer ol Taco Smchells. Thats out it...some nice sushi places..although I dont eat sushi cuz I cant. Im talking to fast food type mexican food. Some nice asian food places. But, I guess you have to taste food in other places to know what youre missing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Muyaha
    i would definetly say visit here first before you move.
    I agree 100%.Making it in Cali is hard.
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    Down off the strip of my area... there has to be more than 20 sushi places. A lot of Thai. Alot of baja style mexican places. Armenian restuarants, Indian, Italian, Chinese, Tibetian (never tried it), Argentine, Colombian, Cuban, Salvadoreno, Russian, Creole, Greek, French,. I guess I live in area with a gang of restuarants so blandness never effected me. But I can see SD being some what bland. I went to a South American restaurant there near SDSU and it was bland it literally had no flavor.
    Oh about the road rage... There is a new thing going on since the end of February in LA/OC area people are getting shot while driving on the freeways. Then they literally shut down the freeway for hours after this happens. I think there's been more than 6 or 7 shooting like this.

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    I miss driving up to Marina Del Rey on the weekends.

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    ^ what did you do there? I hate going anywhere near the beach on the weekends (except in winter) because of traffic.

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    I went up there to go eat at this awesome soul food place.Did some shopping also.
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    If you are going to shoot at people from your car, make sure you have a shell catcher attached to your weapon so the cops can't pick up your brass and trace you.
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    Quote Originally Posted by onlythebest
    I agree 100%.Making it in Cali is hard.
    Of course it is. But when your relocating anywhere, it's going to be hard.


    Thanks for all of the info, everyone. I really appreciate it. Especially Muyaha! Wow, thanks so much. You've been really helpful. It's great to know what places I should be avoiding.

    I'm either moving in November, or Febuary. Chances are I'll make a trip out there first.

    I'm hoping to move out there with roughly $10,000.

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    I need to get out more...Marina Del Rey? How far is that? I loove LLLLOOOOVVVVVEEEE to shop and be nice to me.

    I would love to live in the OC(Orange County for Lovespell)..I think it would be nicer than SD.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sh0t
    If you are going to shoot at people from your car, make sure you have a shell catcher attached to your weapon so the cops can't pick up your brass and trace you.
    Hey, thanks for the tip. What time did you say you leave for work?

    Besides, why would anyone be stupid enough to shoot people on the freeway? Christ.

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    I like the beaches in OC especially Newport. But I'm not too keen on OC people.

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    I like Seal Beach in OC.
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    California sucks. I know what I speak of, as I have lived from Philadelphia to San Francisco.

    California ain't what it use to be.

    Come live in Texas. Austin is the California before the current California.

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    Funny you should say that, Deogol. That's what I've been telling people- this California is not the place I grew up in.

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    Thanks everyone. I've been checking out apartments online. Some really nice ones in Brentwood for not too much. What do you think of that area? It seems okay, but I could be totally wrong.

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