QBN Sacramento, CA
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- sarahfailin0
I live in Sac currently. I used to live in the Bay, and I lived in New Orleans for a long time, so I have some perspective.
Sac is hugely underrated, in large part because it has tons of sprawling suburbs around it which do, largely suck. If you are a young professional though, living in "the grid" as it's called in the downtown-midtown area is awesome.
1. It's completely flat and bike-able.
2. Very-good quality food and restaurants, including Michelin-rated restaurants. If you were going to do a 100-mile diet, this would be the place to do it: wine, produce, cheese, honey, nuts, EVERYTHING comes from near here.
3. MUCH cheaper in every way than the bay. Rent, food, drinks, everything.
4. Amazing farmers markets that are dirt-cheap and full of fresh, quality produce of all kinds.
5. Very close to lots of awesome stuff in California: SF/Bay to the west, Napa/Sonoma, Tahoe and the Sierras-- all these places you can get to in 90 minutes. I've even gone to Yosemite on a day trip once, though that was a bit more ambitious.
6. Low crime, even downtown. I never hear about cars or homes getting broken into hardly ever. As compared to Oakland...Downsides:
1. Temperature variant! HOT in the summer. 40's in the winter. Being from the south, this doesn't bother me, but it bothers the Bay denizens.
2. Music scene is not great. It just isn't. A lot of the good acts go to SF. But there are plenty of small venues with a variety of mediocre acts if you like to chill and hear whatever.
3. The people outside of downtown/midtown are either suburbanites or whatever the California version of hicks is.
4. There's not as much of that exotic bay area culture where you can eat Cambodian and Jamaican food on the same block. There's no race riots here. There's no radical co-op bicycling freegan hordes (which to me is a downside, I kind of like that stuff)Bottom line: Sac is so live-able. It's like the bay area on easy mode. Low rent. Great food. A good variety of bars and restaurants downtown. Just not as MUCH of any of it, and not as much culture as they have in the bay.
- Thanks! Everyone has been saying the same things you mentioned. Im really excited to get out there in May.teh