Santa Clarita, CA is a beautiful city located in the northwestern part of Los Angeles County. It boasts stunning mountain views, wonderful local parks, and plenty of outdoor activities like hiking, biking, and horseback riding. Santa Clarita is also home to Six Flags Magic Mountain, an exciting amusement park with thrilling rides and attractions that the whole family can enjoy. The city hosts a variety of events throughout the year such as the Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival and Live at the Drive-In Concerts. Residents of this vibrant city are lucky to have so many great amenities right at their doorstep.
The reviews for Santa Clarita are overwhelmingly positive due to its picturesque scenery, high quality of life, and abundance of activities available to visitors and residents alike. People love exploring the local trails or attending one of the many community events throughout the year. In addition to outdoor activities like camping, fishing, and hunting there are also plenty of options for shopping, dining out or catching a movie at one of the area's multiplexes. Many visitors even comment on how safe they feel when walking around town or visiting one of its numerous parks. With all these amazing benefits it’s no wonder why people choose Santa Clarita as their home away from home!
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Santa Clarita is way overrated. - 1/21/2012
Have you ever heard of the saying, "Keeping up with the Jones"? Well that explains Santa Clarita in a nutshell. This city is horrible. It's overcrowded, too expensive, hotter than hot in the summer, and the people that live here act like they are in Beverly Hills. There is a major rise in crime and Newhall area is like TJ. Most of the schools are good if you are looking simply at test scores and you don't mind that your child is surrounded by spoiled children that have little tolerance. Money and status is what drives the people of this community and to meet somebody that is genuinely friendly is rare. Seriously, it's like living in the Twilight Zone here and I can't wait to get out.
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Great Community - 7/20/2011
As a lifetime resident of the Santa Clarita Valley, I have been able to watch my community grow and flourish. For me Santa Clarita has is a great place to live when you want the amenities of a big city, but still have the small town feel. The Santa Clarita Valley has seen most of it's growth in recent years, is home to Magic Mountain Theme Park, and offers many accommodations such as shopping areas, movie theater's, dining, and more.
Santa Clarita is a suburb of Los Angeles, and located approx 35 miles north of downtown. Santa Clarita has ranked as one of the top places to live by Money Magazine, and has some of the lowest crime rates fin the nation. The Master Planned Communities here are great! Not to far from any neighborhood you live in, you will find parks, walking, running, and biking trails, supermarkets, award winning
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beautiful but overbuilt.... - 11/18/2010
a wonderful clean place to raise a family, great schools low crime very community oriented. just what any all-American family would want. the problem is there's only so much land, which is in way over built, terrible traffic problems, housing is way overpriced, property taxes are outrageous.... and most people have to commute out of town up to 1 to 2 hours to Los Angeles. beyond that it's paradise... at a
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Too many residents and growth for our liking - 11/9/2010
Having lived in the Santa Clarita Valley for approx. 20 years now, the city
of Canyon Country has grown by leaps and bounds. Unfortunately many of the
businesses that thrived several years ago are empty buildings just waiting for someone to sign a lease. Employment is greater in Valencia and there
are many more jobs to be found. This side of town is experiencing too many
foreclosures and short sales and property values have dropped significantly.
The crime has risen and though we live in a nice community, within the last
year our home has been burglarized, vandalized and we operate security cameras 24/7. We used to be able to leave doors and windows unlocked and now
we worry about just leaving a window unlocked. There are quite a few homeless people even at our local supermarket and the schools are overcrowded. The teachers are dedicated and the kids get a decent education but withing the public schools there are negative influences
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Nice, Upper Class- but crowded - 4/24/2010
Having lived off and on in the Santa Clarita area for over thirty years, I can say it has changed a lot. It is a very upper class, weel educated city, with nice streets, great shopping, and way too much traffic. With a population of about 150,000, the road system is just overburdened. So getting from one side to the other can take 30 minutes.
But it is a very family oriented and nice community. It has nice hot spots, great recreation facilities, and for lA County, low crime.
Home prices are very high, and expect to pay high taxes.
Generally it has had good schools, but they are trending down in quality. Still some of the best in LA County.
Climate is the LA valley type, with long hot summers, and very mild winters. Biking, walking, outdoor activites can be done almost any day. Little rain. But fires. Most years the fall will supply the valley with smoke with a few days. And occasioanlly buring right into the community because of dry brush and hot santa ana
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White Picket Fences - 2/18/2010
The Santa Clarita Valley is a beautiful, family friendly, close knot community literally surrounded by white picket fences. The growth in the SCV the last few years is concerning, because the traffic systems have not evolved with the growing number of people who live here. However, the development has been managed fairly well, and it is still a great place to live. I do miss the cows grazing where the TPC golf course is now. I moved up here because of those
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Excellent quality of life - 11/2/2009
With the temperature might be hot in the Summer, it is not overwhelming other than about 3 weeks during the year. The Community is large enough to have all the shopping and services but small enough to not have the issues that larger metropolitan cities
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