Where is a better place to live, Encino or Pasadena?
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Encino has a higher quality of general population. \nI don't care how much they cleaned up old town in Pasadena, you still have to watch your a@@ there to keep from getting mugged!
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Los Anglese is a better living city.\n\nPros: A giantic population in the city and in the surburbs so you meet new people, the beaches, the sunny weather, multicultrual communities.\n\nCons: High gas prices, smog, and Governor Arnold Scharzenegger.\n\nPortland\n\nPros: Fresh air and quiet.\n\nCons: Bad Sports Teams and it rains too much.\n\nBTW. Every freaking state has illegals everywhere. There's also illegal immigrants coming in from Canada.
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Irvine Ca - From $40 to $1090 a month.\n\nRegards
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Pasadena has the best neighborhood for lights!!  I live in the Inland Empire, but drive to this show every year!!  It is like 20 blocks of lights...way better than the one mile crap at Griffith Park..........\n\nUpper Hastings Ranch, Pasadena\nEach block of the area competes, creating displays with a common theme. Upper Hastings Ranch is bordered by Michillinda Avenue to the East, Sierra Madre Blvd. to the South and Riveria Drive to the West. From the 210 Freeway, take Michillinda Blvd. North to the lights. \n\nhttp://www.pasadenacal.com/holiday_2_2002.html\n\nYou'll be happy you went!!
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LA would be the best place if you're realy as good as you say you is then you wont have no problem. Good Luck.
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I lived at the beach in Los Angeles for twenty years.  Los Angeles is NOT better than the rest of the country, they just THINK so.  When you're living there you get all wrapped up in how fortunate you are to be there, and when you visit anywhere else you're often driven crazy by the slow pace of life, you miss the constant movement of LA.\n\nIt used to be, in my lifetime, that everybody wanted to move to California, envied the people who lived all year round in such nice weather and where movie stars are.\n\nBelieve me, it's not that way any longer.  I would recommend that Californians visiting other places in the USA not advertise where they are from, as predjudice runs high.\n\nMany towns and cities in our country, particularly in the western states, have had their economies and other things ruined by Californians.\n\nSay you sell your little bitty two bedroom house in California - maybe in Manhattan Beach, say - and you get half a million dollars for it because somebody wants to build a fancy place on your lot.  So you move to, say, Spokane Washington, where that half a million dollars will buy you a lot more house than it would in California.\n\nGreat.  You build it up on a hill because you've always figured rich people live on hills.  The cost of housing in that area goes way up because you built this big house, and people that have lived there for generations can no longer afford to live on their family's land.\n\nYou have never lived where it snows, and when winter comes you find that the scenic twisty little road you built to your new house doesn't allow you to travel it in winter.  You raise a fuss and county road crews have to either dig you out or clear the way for you to get home.  So county taxes go way up because they have to cover these costs.\n\nYou've told your friends back in California, how affordable everything is where you live now, so they all do the same thing.  Entertainment costs go up, food prices go up, property taxes go up, and when you all get involved in local politics, everything goes haywire and nobody is happy.  You've made the little paradise you found into just another clone of where you lived in LA.  Crime rises, gang members find their way there, too.  People have to lock their doors for the first time in their lives.  Life for the locals isn't better because you came, it sucks, and in the end you're no happier there than you were in California.\n\nNo.  Quality of life is much better ANY where else than in Los Angeles.  Don't be fooled.  And don't come to where I live, either.
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I have lived in The Bay Area for 2 1/2 years and I loved it the cost of living is high but its good living I would suggest that you live in one of the cities neighboring SF because the city is so congested it's great for partiers but I think if you have a family it will be to busy in SF after all it is the city of Sex and Drugs yeah its true. not to discourage you SF is Great it really has a piece of my heart I have meet my first true friend there. If you going to live there live outside SF like in Hayward or San Jose, Oakland, Palo Alto. Good luck in your travels
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I can't think of any different, but been living here all my life in the bay area in Silicon Valley, Tri-Valley and the  Central Valley.  I like the Central Valley the best, because you don't really feel the Earthquake here.  What really puzzle me the most is high cost housing is in the wrong area because they are on the Earthquake foundations and all other areas in the east of the Bay Area is lower and little effects on Earthquakes.  My point is the Eastern side should cost more than the Western side of California because more safer from Earthquakes.  Any lands that is far side safer from earthquake shall be consider the highest in the house Market!  Funny the House Market should go back to school!
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Really depends on what you want to study. Once you determine that go with the better school for that subject. Also you should visit both schools and get a feel for the community, people, area, ect. When I was visiting schools it was very clear from the moment I walked on campus whether I would like it or not. It might be the same way for you. I have seen both schools campuses and I think that Cornell is in a great location, with an excellent repuation. USC is also a great school. But who wants to live in south central L.A.? I sure wouldn't. Good luck in your search.
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Sherman Oaks or Studio City.  Both really nice areas with lots to do.  Shops, restaurants, bars, etc.  Just a very nice place to be and it's also easy to get to Burbank.  No freeways are needed.  I used to do that commute myself.
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Well, East L.A. is identical, the houses might be made of something different, but I have seen goats in the backyards, graffiti, trash, gang affiliation, vendors, mexican flags, spanish as the primary language, women with 5 or 6 kids and one on the way whom can't even afford the clothes on their backs.  I See this stuff every time I go to an area over in that direction.  BUt don't just focus on that area.  People have moved out of east L.A. to other parts, Inviting all their familty from back home to come live with them.  Before you know it  Every house on the block is owned by Mexicans supporting their families illegally.  This is spreading rapidly and it's scary.  Can you believe it's this way in Orange County, CA?  Of all places.  I was just told I was over qualified to rent an apartment in Anaheim.  A majority of the residents were of hispanic origin, even the office staff was all of hispanic origin, and then it dawned on me.  Is that discrimination towards me?  Overqualified to rent a place?  How is that possible?
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Nothing in L.A. trust me, your probaly thinking of the O.C., hunnington beach, balboa island, laguna beach, new port beach.\nSan Clemente and Dana Point are super nice as well.\n\nThen San Diego, Pacific Beach, Mission Beach, Ocean Beach, Bird Rock, La Jolla, Blacks beach(nude), Del Mar, Solana Beach, Cardif, Encinitas, and Moon Light. Oh yeah, Fiesta Island.\nJust don't come to Del Mar, thats where i crash and its way to crowed already. But it and Solana are definently the most family friendly.\nP.B. and O.B. got a lot of bars.
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to live:\nbest to avoid northwest and old southwest to live (crime).\nsoutheast is alright.... and i just mean that.... it's alright.\nnortheast is nice.\nsouthwest city & county is nice.\nsalem has some nice areas to it too....\n\nto work:\nit's decent.  depends what you want to do.
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Santa Clarita,Burbank,Pasadena,Glendale,Alhambra although the metropolitan area is changing I think, within a few more years the metro is going to be the hottest area to live in.
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Arcadia, CA\nPasadena, CA\nand Long Beach, CA\n\nCheck out the link included below for specifics...
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It makes sense to at least research the possibility of relocating to higher ground.  Like the middle of the continent!  I can definitely see the advantage, if you do get any kind of settlement on the value of your home and its contents.  But do think about where you want to go.\n\nWhat sort of job would you be looking for?  Are there things you could research on line about the job market in various locations that look good to you?  What are the major economic indicators -- cost of living, density of population, major industries -- that matter most to you?  And what are the quality of life aspects that matter most to you?\n\nFor example, I live in Santa Cruz County, California.  It is a lovely county, and you might be very tempted.  But do, please, have a look at everything you can about it before you are lured here (or any other example).  Because while it is undeniably one of the nicest places in the world to live, it is equally undeniable that it is one of the most expensive, as well.  Yes, Hawaii is even more expensive; but in the 48 contiguous states, central California is about as close to heaven as you can get; and I'm high up in the Santa Cruz Mountains, closer yet to heaven.  And the people around me who drive those lovely new BMWs and Porsches start out driving over the hill to Silicon Valley long about 4:00 a.m.\n\nNice, but you hardly ever get to see the place in daylight when you're working over the hill.  And that's where the money is.  Silicon Valley.  We have a little mini-Silicon Valley on this side of the hill, though.  It's called Scotts Valley.  If you are interested in high tech, look up what you can about that up-and-at-em little high tech haven in the Santa Cruz Mountains.\n\nSee, it all depends on what's important to you.  And that's why we have an Internet where we can research before we leap!  Indeed, you can also go a long way in job search before you leap.
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The San Francisco bay area. You could get a good job in S.F. and live a little cheaper in a near by city/suburb. Of you could get a job in a number of other cities, from oakland to san jose. There is always work in the bay area and it's a great place to live. Lots of different people and lots of things to do. You can learn so much there.