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What quality of life? - 4/19/2007 |
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| Living in Eureka was a five month nightmare. Seduced by the redwoods, my boyfriend and I moved up from Sacramento eager to live in a coastal climate, liberal environment and with low cost of living. What we found was dirty, depressing, drug ridden city and constant conflict between the loggers and the tree sitters. The house shortage is unreal, we lived in an apartment that was really awful and our landlords were nothing short of exploitive. The housing was almost as bad as the job market. The market is so competitive and there were so few jobs that people felt lucky just get minimum wage work working crazy hours. I finally found a job only to lose it one day later because the owner had already hired someone else when the manager hired me. Eureka is riddled with drug addicts, and not the kind you would associate normally with Humboldt. I would frequently find hypodermic needles in the gutters and city parks, also the white Supremicists like to hang out in Redwood Park. This is unfortunate because it is a beautiful place where people bring their children. The bottom line is, there isn't much that's good about Eureka. It is a very depressing and very economically depressed place. If you want to move to Humboldt County, choose Cutten, Arcata, Fortuna or one of the other lovely little cities along the coast (Ferndale is adorable). I still love Humboldt and its gorgeous redwood country, but Eureka was not good to us, and we moved back to Sacramento 5 months after we arrived.
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Ashley
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| re: What quality of life? - 4/19/2007 - 6/4/2008
I live in Eureka, and I don't like it much. I am planning on moving as soon as I can, but even I thought your review was unfair. Yes, there are parts of time where no one enjoys spending time because of drugs and other issues, but there are other really nice places too. Isn't it the same there in Sacramento? Also, I'd just like to point out that your list of places to live in Humboldt other than Eureka is a little hypocritical. Cutten, for instance, is a part of Eureka, not a town in itself, just a neighborhood. Also, the Redwood park, in which you say the white supremacists like to hang out, is in Arcata. Another one of the places on your list of where to live, which by the way, has a much bigger drug problem than Eureka does. I realize that you only lived here for five months, which isn't nearly enough time to really get to know a place, but please, if your going to write a review about reasons not to come here, please make it accurate.
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| Living in Eureka~ - 7/20/2007
Slum town, old town, fog, wind and city click. I grew up here. Lady lives downtown, one of the slums in Eureka since they put in the mall. So many changes have happened. Why homes are so high[read more...]
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| Nice Place, but housing is outrageous! - 5/8/2007
I lived in Eureka for 10 years. It's got a beautiful environment and nice people, but housing costs are insane. Another negative about that part of California in general is that there are many, many[read more...]
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| Eureka is a great place for artists & eccentrics, - 4/24/2007
Eureka was the first capitol of California & was built in 1850 from the profits of gold & lumber. After the gold & lumber resources were exhausted, Eureka was pretty much forgotten about by anyone[read more...]
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| What quality of life? - 4/19/2007
Living in Eureka was a five month nightmare. Seduced by the redwoods, my boyfriend and I moved up from Sacramento eager to live in a coastal climate, liberal environment and with low cost of living.[read more...]
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| Nothing to offer and high prices - 3/3/2007
Yes, Eureka has the ocean and the redwood trees. But that is it. It is located in the middle of Humboldt County, which is the pot capital of the world. It has a high welfare population. The drug meth[read more...]
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| Eureka Is Truly A Great Place To Live - 12/10/2006
I just want to say I totally disagree with the negative comments previously posted here. My husband and I moved to Eureka in 1998 from San Francisco, and it was the best thing we ever did.
We run[read more...]
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| Eureka, Nice Place to Visit, No Place to Live - 12/3/2006
After having relocated to Eureka from the Bay Area and living here for nearly two years, my entire family is very excited about our relocation plans to Colorado. The City of Eureka and Humboldt[read more...]
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| It's all in the eye of the beholder - 7/26/2006
Welcome to Eureka! a Beautiful place to live and raise a family. Of course I am a local politician, but don't hold that against me, it's only been for the last four years of my 59 years here on the[read more...]
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| Eureka!! Gold (in the form of humor) at last! - 7/12/2006
This is a comment on a comment:
AC, your report regarding Eureka, CA gave me the best laugh I've had in days!
If nothing else, at least wonderful wittiness, as demonstrated by your post, is[read more...]
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| Hippies' & Rednecks' Delight (old and young) - 6/4/2006
Ulysses S. Grant became an alcoholic and had a nervous breakdown here (Fort Humboldt). If you live in Eureka for a while, you start to understand why. Grant was probably driven to win the civil war[read more...]
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| Laid-back, expensive, not worth it, 60 degrees, bo - 1/9/2006
I've lived in Humboldt County my entire life (19 years). It's beautiful, there is no traffic, and the people have not yet discovered vanity. Jeans and a sweatshirt pretty much do it for the[read more...]
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| Eureka, Ca - 12/31/2005
I lived in Eureka for 25 years. I workrd at a local hospital for $6.40 an hour for around 3 years. I decided to make a break and go the the Sacramento area after my divorce where a Eureka court[read more...]
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| A troubled town - 12/27/2005
I have lived in Eureka, California for 5 years, and I can best describe it as a small town with a troubling amount of the problems facing urban area many times it size. The good? Breathtaking scenery[read more...]
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| Truth about Eureka and Humboldt County - 7/10/2005
I am saddened by the current state of my once beautiful hometown. Currently Eureka residents are stuck in an economic drought that has led to the closure of several timber related industries.[read more...]
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