Sacramento from someone who has lived there since
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6/6/2010
I have lived in southern Ca and all over Northern CA and even Las Vegas.
Sacramento is HOT!!! You are looking at perhaps 10 to maybe 20 days in the summer when its over 100. It is dry however, not as dry as Vegas or AZ but dry none the less. I find it very liveable, but then again I can handle the heat.
It is NOTHING like the south, I just came back from Orlando, and have visited Miami Tampa etc, and its no problem dealing with it. You do need AC here for sure.
The winters are so livable it might freeze once a year ...maybe.
No Snow limited rain and the springs and fall are AWESOME but sometimes too short.
Sacramento has a long time reputation as a Cow Town, (and we embrace it) but it is anything but that.
For the young ones the night life in Downtown Sac has picked up considerably, and I will let you in on a little secret... Sacramento has some of the most beautiful women in California and they dont know they are beautiful.
Sacramento is very diverse, people are friendly, although I would say they are California friendly, they are not southern hospitality or even midwest hospitality.
For Families I would reccomend the northern suburbs, Rosevllie, Rocklin, Lincoln Granite Bay if you can afford it. You will find that is basically the same here as any other city, you have your housing developments with the chain resteraunts and strip malls. You will be paying more to live in California, and the motto here is we are two hours from everywhere.
two hours from Tahoe
two hours from Reno
two hours from San Francisco
two hours from Napa Wine country
two hours from the Coast
you get the gist.
The traffic is bad.
Not as bad as San Francisco Or L.A
but its getting there.
I will probably move eventually because of it, but for now I have a system.
Some schools are horrible, some are excellent, if you do your homework, you can make it work here.
Crime is Higher in the city and the south area not so bad in the north and north east.
We have the Kings (basketball) and we really should have more pro sports but we dont have enough big corporations to support the luxury boxes.
I would say you are going to meet someone from every Race, Religion, Political party etc It is very diverse and no one seems to have a problem with it.
If you dont like diversity dont move here.
We have folsom lake (folsom prison) the foothills with beautiful trees, smog, microbreweries, Big malls, and some really nice resturants. the housing market is horrible if you are selling, great if you are buying, and there is somthing for everyone here. Deal with the traffic Hot weather and smog (we have smog because we are in a valley, and it comes from all over and sits in the valley.
the gold rush started here and we have no problems or bias towards new people moving in the area.
Axel | Orangevale, CA