Sacramento gets a lot of flack for being a "cow town" (maybe we should just make that the new official name. In reality, as some who has lived in the area my entire life, that's not the case. There are half a million people the Sacramento area! I have lived in a cow town before - try Woodland, or Eureka, those are small hick towns for sure. Sacramento just has a "little sister" stigma because what city can measure up to San Francisco, only an hour and a half from us? The answer, as a previous poster observed, no city in the world can really measure up. SF is an amazing (and amazingly expensive:) place. Which brings me to the pro's and con's of Sacramento. Honestly, there are many good things about living in this area (just put SF out of your mind, stop comparing the two, pretend it doesn't exist right now). Pro's: anyone living here will tell you - an hour and a half to the Sierra Nevada mountains, an hour and a half to the coast. Wine country is close, and Lodi, which is very close to the south, is also a great wine region. Sacramento has also benefited from the influence of the Bay Area - since I have lived here the restaurants, bars, nightlife, art and music scene have all grown tremendously. The politics here are moderately to the left, being the state capital of California. I would prefer to live in a slightly more liberal area myself, but I would NOT classify the area as a conservative hick town. We are a college town, and the politics fall in line with that. The majority of conservative population live in the hills to the east (Placer county is a major area for that). Con's: The summer heat. The main reason I want to move. If you like the sun, we have at least 330 days of sunshine a year. The winters are mild, fall is awesome because of our urban forest. But the summers are blistering hot. This also effects the air quality here because of the inversion layer. That's the main draw back of the area.
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