A great place to live once upon a time
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3/28/2015
Well, I started using this site because my husband I are leaving this city and want lots of good information on other places to live. I'm leaving this review as a warning to others. We have lived in Sacramento since 1981 and have seen it change for a good mid sized city that was great for raising a family to a large city teeming with crime and decay. It is so sad to see how this city has changed and not for the better! Everything about living here is higher than the national averages: Gas prices (because of the high state tax rates), food, utilities, rents and home prices, and of course taxes overall. We own a small business and Sacramento, and California in general, is not a great place to own a business. Crime is on the rise in general with this area being one of the worst for car thefts. We live in a gated apartment complex that is considered to be one of the best in our area and we have had three neighbors have cars stolen in the last year! I know this only my experience and I encourage everyone interested in moving here to check the local crime stats carefully and choose which area of the city to live in with extreme care. California in general is at the bottom when it comes to the quality of schools. There are some good schools in this area but you have to choose carefully to find the right one. Our children are grown now. When we were raising them we had them in private schools to avoid the low quality of public schools in the area. To be fair there are some good parts of Sacramento and the surrounding suburbs, so if you want to move here choose with care. I live in the Arden Arcade are, which was once a nice place to call home, no more however. So sad. The good points of the area are that it is close to the mountains, Lake Tahoe and San Francisco. However, the Bay area's traffic has gotten so bad that it is a hard drive to make. Tahoe is beautiful as well as the foothill towns to the east of Sacramento. A town with so much potential, too bad it is fading.
Kirsten | Arden-Arcade, CA