SperlingViews - Riverside, California

HOUSING PRICES START TO PICKUP[read more...]

Pretty hot and dry in the summertime. Some weeks over 100 for 5 days in a row. No rain to speak of from May until October. Just right in winter..not too cold. Maybe down to only lower 40 degrees. No snow. Rain in December, January, February and March but not in great amounts.[read more...]

La escuela es la mejor. espero y siga asi.[read more...]

Most of Riverside is mostly low income due to lack of jobs and because it's old. Mainly because of traffic getting to work(making an unbalanced economy). Most people have jobs in Orange County, California causing traffic on the 91 freeway. Riverside is improving by attracting businesses.[read more...]

Living in Riverside for the last 8 years I can honestly say that its just not worth it. With one bedroom apartments reaching rent of close to $1300/month we could be living in a far nicer place. [read more...]

lots of smog[read more...]

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Walking up Mt. Rubidoux in the morning or in the evening is a wonderful way to enjoy the city and sites.[read more...]

I've lived in Riverside for almost five years now and I've relied on the Riverside Transit Authority (RTA) and the Metrolink trains to get me to work every morning without fail. I can always count on public transportation to get me to work on time. I don't have to risk a co-worker calling in sick, arrange alternative rides when my carpool goes on vacations or none of that. In the five years that I've been on public transportation, I've had less than half a dozen issues due to the bus or train being late. The added advantage of public transportation in my opinion is that I don't have to sit in traffic and if I didn't get enough sleep the night before, I can catch a little shut eye while commuting.[read more...]

riverside is 300000 people. beautiful winter weather, like palm springs. summers are too hot and smoggy. diverse people, good and bad areas.[read more...]

great place, open spaces[read more...]

Riverside, CA is an amazing city. With over 280,000 residents, the city manages a true vibrance. Nice parks, festivals & community activities in addition to the constant revitalization projects this is a nice city with responsible leaders.[read more...]

I have lived here since I was 3, but for the last few years, I've started liking Riverside less and less. It's scorching hot here over the summer time. We also have so many illegal immigrants taking over the city. You'll find tons of them hanging around Home Depot on Indiana ave. The schools are overcrowded due to the budget cuts in RUSD and Riverside is ranked as having one of the highest foreclosure rates in the nation. A long time ago, Riverside had a good reputation for growing oranges and other citrus fruit. Now many of them are being cut down for land development, which is causing overpopulation, more traffic, and more foreclosed homes. Why do people move here? Because it's cheap. Homes that you can find in L.A. or Orange County for $1 million can be worth $700K in Riverside. It's also a longer commute to the larger areas where most of the residents work. In my honest opinion, Riverside is becoming a more undesirable place to live in. Once I graduate from high school, I'm out of here![read more...]

Weather here seems to get dryer and dryer. Although this summer was probably the coolest in years, it continues to rain less. If i were to continue living here, i would only live in a house with a pool.[read more...]

Our climate in Riverside California is pretty sporadic depending on the time of year. The temperature can be as low as 29 degrees in the winter months and as high as 106 degrees in the summer months. Our temperature is pretty good most of the time. We have very low humidity compared to the east coast and during the summer we usually get dry heat. We do get high winds a couple times a year. Overall though, Riverside California is good weather![read more...]

Riverside has just ranked 12 in terms of stressful living, and 2nd in unemployment according to Forbes. We have the 3rd worst air pollution in America. The schools and medical system are perfect for the illegal immigrants its proudly and generously serves. Riverside used to have an interesting racial mix, but now the city is deluged with illegals who are sucking off the system and creating crime. Not that we don't have enough home grown crime. We had a long tradition of violent drug gangs for close to a century. The Zodiac killer got his start in Riverside along with several other not so famous outside of Calif mass killers. Along with several Los Angeles gangs like the Crips and the Bloods moving in, and a few bike gangs, Riverside is a lovely place to stay barricaded in one's home with Gun in hand. The weather is hot and nasty in the summer. It routinely is over a 100 degrees in the summer and in the winter it is biting cold for a southern california city. The air is so polluted it blocks out the sky with a lethal brown haze.It hurts to breathe here. Seriously. Things to do. NOTHING. Unless you like going to church, eating at a chain resturaunt, or staying home and getting drunk.You can however obtain crystal meth at reasonable prices. Our politicians are an unsavory mix of incompetence married to corruption. As for civic codes the City won't enforce them. You can let your 15 dogs, 12 goats and 60 roosters make as much noise as they like, make life a living hell for everyone within a mile and the City will do nothing. You can let your horse manure pile up 3 feet high and the city will not do anything. I promise you that.Yes Riverside is a sophisticated city where you can drink beer on your 30 year old beer stained couch on the front porch of your home. Employment has never been good in Riverside. Most people who desire a living wage have a 2 hour drive to Orange or Los Angeles and back to look forward everyday. Socially speaking Riverside seems to have more unwed mothers than any place I have ever lived in. Every day masses of teen aged girls / bay mommas stroll their new borns straight to welfare office. People here are are generally angry, combative, low IQ, uneducated, either addicted or morbidly obese. They seem unified in a general sense of a very real, unfriendly, mean spiritedness that seems to pervade this place that is best avoided. One reason to stop in Riverside! On your way to someplace else, in fact anywhere else, stop in Riverside and buy some gas. Then leave immediately. I'm serious, this is not a comdey piece. [read more...]

Riverside has several great universities, but I wouldn't call it your usual university town as the cultural side of this fairly large city is poor. And it is definately a city in which you need a car. Though Riverside is by far the largest city in what is affectionately termed The Inland Empire, many of the major stores are anchoring themselves outside of Riverside as there is the mentality that residents will drive to shop. This is problematic as the traffic is always bad and with gas prices high, fewer people are chosing to make these drives. Then there is the problem with the schools. In the middle school, for example, there are 250 kids on the playing field with only 5 adults to supervise them. Schools are horribly under-funded and there doesn't seem to be an end in sight to change this long-running problem. The schools are over crowded (over 32 kids is many 4th grade classrooms with only one teacher and no aide) and there are nearly 3,000 kids attending MLK high school with only 1 school counselor. Then there is the issue of few jobs that pay a living wage. There are very few professional jobs in the City of Riverside and its outskirts and when you read that there is high job growth in the area, notice that they are really talking about service / retail jobs. Most professionals have to commute over an hour to a major city to find a job that pays what a professional should be paid for their educaton and experience. I cannot recommend this city to anyone outside of California, though inside California it is quite a steal for home prices - particularly because of the number of foreclosures on every block.[read more...]

I love the life I have in Riverside. We live in a converted vintage home in the Prospect place historic district of Riverside. This area of downtown Riverside has hundreds of classic victorian and craftsman homes. This city is great, plus there's 4 great bars we can reach just walking a couple of blocks.[read more...]

We need more buses and trains to transport people!!![read more...]

Recreation options in Riverside California are one of the most underrated aspect of living in the Inland Empire as we call it. We live at the foot of the great San Bernardino Mountains that include many great resorts, lakes, and mountain streams. We also are just outside the desert areas that provide large areas for camping, off road vehicle use, and quiet historical places to visit. Riverside is 1 hour away from the fantastic Southern California beaches with warm water and many activities related to the coast. We love this secret knowledge we have regarding our recreation areas and how they improve our lives.[read more...]