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Thinking of moving to California...
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Sunny Hills and Troy High School have good scores. Troy is a magnet school with IB and Tech programs. Sunny Hills is known for their SAT scores. It's an area you can raise kids in.
Visually, it's kind of a dirty city compared to South OC. Eh, it's ok. There is probably cheaper housing on the border with the Anaheim/Orange areas.
Visually, it's kind of a dirty city compared to South OC. Eh, it's ok. There is probably cheaper housing on the border with the Anaheim/Orange areas.
Ninja Scooter
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and for the most part, the women down here clean their vaginas regularly, which is always a plus.
ShadowRed said:
www.craigslist.org
Also, call the L.A. chamber of commerce. Places like that usually keep a file of at least some apartment buildings that cater to people moving into the city from out of state. Hell, ask for a whole relocation package if they've got it. The one I got from San Francisco came with a whole bunch of useful stuff.
ToyMachine228
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I'm still going to school, but I plan on moving to the San Fran area when I'm done...I plan on writing for a big gaming magazine out there. Hopefully everything pans out.
Rorschach said:
Beh, it's nothing like Manhattan here, cheap apartments are much easier to find (though my definition of cheap is probably slightly different than most), and this is just in my limited experience of finding a place to stay in LA for the summer, on craigslist if you're lucky (but the shit goes pretty fast there, so you have to be quick), but sometimes it's better to just go out and look. I don't know shit about Fullerton though.
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I moved to Orange, which is near Fullerton, last August from Washington DC to get my masters in film production. Let me give you the lowdown on Orange County.
If you're coming from a big city you're going to be terribly dissapointed. Fullerton at least has a street with a bunch of bars that a lot of young people hang out at. But other than that, OC is one HUGE suburb. So be ready to drive A LOT in TRAFFIC everywhere you go.
THe beach area is kinda cool with Newport Beach and Huntington Beach but personally I find the bar areas there are subpar to what I'm used to in DC.
I'm looking at this from a young guy's perspective who liked to go out all the time with friends. So, if you dont like to go out to bars and clubs ignore this post.
I personally like going to LA a lot. I'm going to try to move there in my third year of school when I only got one class. It's a different kind of city in that, again, you have to drive everywhere and I hear the subway is ghetto and you can get killed pretty easily (I've never been though so this is all hearsay).
Sunset Blvd is a lot of fun because there are a lot of classy bars and restaurants. Hollywood is also fun but a lot more ghetto than I expected.
In terms of rent, keep hitting up Craigslist.org, there are always posts up there. Or start calling a crapload of apartment buildings in the area. Apartments will probably range from 600 all the way to 1500, depending on what you're looking for.
Anyways, if you have any more questions let me know.
Good Luck!
If you're coming from a big city you're going to be terribly dissapointed. Fullerton at least has a street with a bunch of bars that a lot of young people hang out at. But other than that, OC is one HUGE suburb. So be ready to drive A LOT in TRAFFIC everywhere you go.
THe beach area is kinda cool with Newport Beach and Huntington Beach but personally I find the bar areas there are subpar to what I'm used to in DC.
I'm looking at this from a young guy's perspective who liked to go out all the time with friends. So, if you dont like to go out to bars and clubs ignore this post.
I personally like going to LA a lot. I'm going to try to move there in my third year of school when I only got one class. It's a different kind of city in that, again, you have to drive everywhere and I hear the subway is ghetto and you can get killed pretty easily (I've never been though so this is all hearsay).
Sunset Blvd is a lot of fun because there are a lot of classy bars and restaurants. Hollywood is also fun but a lot more ghetto than I expected.
In terms of rent, keep hitting up Craigslist.org, there are always posts up there. Or start calling a crapload of apartment buildings in the area. Apartments will probably range from 600 all the way to 1500, depending on what you're looking for.
Anyways, if you have any more questions let me know.
Good Luck!
LOL! This should be a movie tag: "LA, a city where the subway is ghetto, and you can get killed pretty easily"
LA is no different than any other big city in the US, if you go looking for trouble you'll find plenty of it. I've been here 4 years, and have not had a single incident, not even a verbal confrontation; AND I'M BLACK!
tyguy20204
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Spent my days with a woman unkind,
Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine.
Made up my mind to make a new start,
Going to california with an aching in my heart.
Someone told me theres a girl out there
With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.
Took my chances on a big jet plane,
Never let them tell you that theyre all the same.
The sea was red and the sky was grey,
Wondered how tomorrow could ever follow today.
The mountains and the canyons started to tremble and shake
As the children of the sun began to awake.
Seems that the wrath of the gods
Got a punch on the nose and it started to flow;
I think I might be sinking.
Throw me a line if I reach it in time
Ill meet you up there where the path
Runs straight and high.
To find a queen without a king;
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings.
La la la la
Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn
Tryin to find a woman whos never, never, never been born.
Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams,
Telling myself its not as hard, hard, hard as it seems.
Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine.
Made up my mind to make a new start,
Going to california with an aching in my heart.
Someone told me theres a girl out there
With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.
Took my chances on a big jet plane,
Never let them tell you that theyre all the same.
The sea was red and the sky was grey,
Wondered how tomorrow could ever follow today.
The mountains and the canyons started to tremble and shake
As the children of the sun began to awake.
Seems that the wrath of the gods
Got a punch on the nose and it started to flow;
I think I might be sinking.
Throw me a line if I reach it in time
Ill meet you up there where the path
Runs straight and high.
To find a queen without a king;
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings.
La la la la
Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn
Tryin to find a woman whos never, never, never been born.
Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams,
Telling myself its not as hard, hard, hard as it seems.
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XMonkey said:
University High School > Troy > Sunny Hills
In 2003, Uni owned. What happened?!?
BTW, why are so many people moving to LA? It's dirty and scary compared to the suburbs....
Alcibiades
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I saw LA last week in real life and man it's freaking awesome I'd love to live there, too bad I'm afraid of the Earthquakes...
if the predicting is really better though I may change my mind, seems like a great place, and my other city I'd dream of living in, NYC, is pretty cold when I'm used to super-hot wheather...
if the predicting is really better though I may change my mind, seems like a great place, and my other city I'd dream of living in, NYC, is pretty cold when I'm used to super-hot wheather...
Pussies :lol
With that said, LA is more than South Central, Watts and East LA. There are areas like Glendale, Burbank, Sherman Oaks, etc, etc, that are suburban havens yet are still considered "LA". If a 21 year old woman can move here and make it on her own, i don't see why any man would be afraid to do so....
With that said, LA is more than South Central, Watts and East LA. There are areas like Glendale, Burbank, Sherman Oaks, etc, etc, that are suburban havens yet are still considered "LA". If a 21 year old woman can move here and make it on her own, i don't see why any man would be afraid to do so....
I live in Manhattan, but I'm working in LA for the summer so I'm here right now. Lived in Phoenix before Manhattan. Based on those places I've lived in my adult life, I'd describe LA as 66% Phoenix, 33% NY. It's sprawled out as hell (Phoenix), got great weather (Phoenix for 7.5 months, but not much beats LA's weather), people drive fucking everywhere (line through an entire parking lot and out onto a side street for In 'n Out drive thru when there's maybe one person in line inside just to give you an example of the mindset) and most places there isn't a fucking soul on the street (Phoenix) other than maybe a bum or two (NY). But it's definitely an exciting place to live almost no matter what you're into (NY, though nothing beats NY) though most parts of the city are pretty dirty (NY) and some just look old and grungy like they were frozen in the 70s (NY, without the charm), there are tons of nice little cities to live in all over the damn place (Phoenix). Oh, and the ocean. I kinda chose it b/c it's sort of halfway between these two cities I like, but wouldn't want to settle down (NY and Phoenix). I'll see how I feel about it in a few months as basically all three options are still open, but so far so good.
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XMonkey said:
Yup.
If you're in CA and not in Santa Barbara...you're in a sub par barely maintained
& dare I say *generic(ly) (crappy)* city
So there.
*Im of course excluding the big cities such as SF, LA and Sac.
Edit: never mind, Im including La and Sac.
So there.
*Im of course excluding the big cities such as SF, LA and Sac.
Edit: never mind, Im including La and Sac.
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