High Price but You get what u pay for.... for the
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3/26/2008
Ive lived in ventura/oxnard for 7 years. compared to all the other oceanside cities in so. cal, this is the cheapest, which i think is suprising because its the best location, far enough away from los angeles but still managable to go their. great weather, youll never complain about that unless you lived here all youre life and ur so spoiled... anyway, oxnard is much better layed out compared to ventura, much more impressive new housing communities, it does have a much more hispanic population though. It ACTUAlly has less crime than ventura, but ventura has a priceless downtown main street, and a peir that is much more appealing along with their better beaches than oxnard. Ventura is pretty much fully developed but oxnard has room to grow and currently has a sub-city called riverpark underway, and so far im very impressed. ventura is considerablly less populated and its more a suburb type, oxnard is more a small mid-city with 2 skyscrapers, airport, navy port and did hold summer practice for the dallas cowboys. i see oxnard with much more potential but considering ventura is literally 5 minutes from it u might as well move their where its more calm and laid back. As far as the goverments, ventura is in bad financial state, they funded renovations to city hall and the downtown area and are now in a deficit, oxnard has down the same but on a smaller scale, and is in a better state considering they have a much bigger revenue base. their is mass transportation in both, ventura is better, the roads are also much better in ventura, oxnard is all flat ground and ocean, ventura adds hills on its eastside. both are relativly green landscape, but nothing above average, schools are less crowded in ventura, somewhat smaller class sizes, and the community college in ventura is much better than oxnards, [i know first hand] ventura also has a very good magnet high school, that got silver medal according to newsweek, and had blue ribbon and its distinguished, i went their and its amazing, nothing compared to the other schools. the buildings overall are more modern in ventura, i would say about 20-30 years old, oxnard dates back more to 40-50 years but it has many new housing communities, to balance it. i would say these two cities are the best overall ocean side cities in so cal. oh and the 101 freeways runs right through both of them wich is really convinient.
Kevin | Oxnard, CA