[blparent] Intro and question about city accessibility

[Rob Kaiser]

Also, Orange County (in socal) has Cal State Fullerton Sanata Ana college, 
and UC Irvine just to name a few. In riverside county (where I am living) 
there's UC Riverside. I'm sure there are more than one colllege in Riverside 
county. As Sarah said, you can't beat the weather out here, and depending on 
where you decide to live you should be able to get decent transportation 
public or pera. I live in Moreno Valley which is near Riverside. I have had 
good luck with the pera transit system out here.



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From: Sarah Clark via blparent
Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2015 2:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] Intro and question about city accessibility

I realize it doesn't exactly fit all that you asked for, but I would highly 
recommend considering either the Los Angeles area or the bay area in 
northern California.  I'm in Los Angeles, and IMO the weather in California 
couldn't be any better.  (I left suburban Ohio 10 years ago to get away from 
the snow and I couldn't be any happier here.) True that California is 
obviously suseptible to earthquakes, but earthquakes seem to be occuring in 
many more places these days, and I'd rather be in an earthquake in Cali than 
one in the east where the buildings are not designed to withstand them.
Transportation in the bay area is more extensive than LA, but LA is 
definately manageable with extensive busses, and many areas also have 
subways/trains. And paratransit is pretty good too if you need that.
The bay area is very safe in most areas.  In LA, crime is very dependent on 
where you are, but in general its not bad and you can easily find safe 
areas.
In both places, affordability varies a lot depending on where you are, you 
would need to check into section 8 availability. But worst case scenario, 
many people in Cali have a roommate which helps a lot with rent expenses. 
The extensive BART system in northern California probably makes it a little 
easier to live a little farther away in less expensive areas and still be 
able to get anywhere you need to go, though I cannot say that LA would be a 
problem living farther out, I just don't know since I basically live in the 
middle of LA.
In LA there are a lot of colleges around, so something would be accessible 
to you no matter where you are -- whether UC Northridge, Cal State LA, UCLA 
etc etc.
I'm not sure what all the colleges are in the bay area but of course there 
would be quite a few of them as well.
In terms of attitudes of people, I think both areas are good, but the bay 
area strikes me as especially open minded.  They are also very concerned 
about the environment up there so you're likely to find areas where they 
don't allow smoking etc in public areas.

Hope this helps.

Sarah




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