NOT a place to raise kids
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2/16/2018
Riverside in the 5+ yrs. I've lived here has changed from a friendlier, quaint, albeit unsophisticated environment into a more crime-ridden area. It's a sanctuary city with all the trappings that go along with it. My roommate and I moved from the beautiful downtown (tree st.) area because crime was noticeably worse, near the university area and it has gotten just as bad here. Without the university, this would be a really unpleasant place to live, and is only bearable because of it. The job sector here is light industrial, no real need for educated, or technology workers here, but if you work in a warehouse or other related job there are few opportunities here. Air quality, poor, gas high, poor community, not a lot to offer, climate is laughingly supposed to be a 'Pro', but it is brutally hot here, summer lasts high a year or more.
T | Riverside, CA