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Old January 20th, 2010, 09:23 PM posted to rec.travel.usa-canada
Richard Fangnail
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Default Los Angeles - Pasadena/Alhambra area

I might have to live in the Pasadena, Alhambra or Monterey Park
areas. What parts of these places have crime problems?

I am told the part of Pasadena near Alta Dena is not so good, but the
others are okay. I've driven through MP and Alhambra and it looked
pretty nice.
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Old January 21st, 2010, 09:56 PM posted to rec.travel.usa-canada
PeterL
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Default Los Angeles - Pasadena/Alhambra area

On Jan 20, 12:23*pm, Richard Fangnail
wrote:
I might have to live in the Pasadena, Alhambra or Monterey Park
areas. *What parts of these places have crime problems?

I am told the part of Pasadena near Alta Dena is not so good, but the
others are okay. *I've driven through MP and Alhambra and it looked
pretty nice.


There are crime problems everywhere in LA.
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Old January 23rd, 2010, 12:38 AM posted to rec.travel.usa-canada
Robin Stober
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Default Los Angeles - Pasadena/Alhambra area

PeterL wrote:

There are crime problems everywhere in LA.


There are crime problems everywhere.
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Old January 26th, 2010, 02:36 AM posted to rec.travel.usa-canada
Ad absurdum per aspera[_2_]
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There are crime problems everywhere in LA.

* *There are crime problems everywhere.


All very true, but don't forget about the statistician who didn't know
how to swim -- drowned in a river with an average depth of three
inches. Your risk of crime can vary a lot even from one neighborhood
to another, let alone one city to another.

These sites suggest that if the original poster is determined to live
in the LA area, as many millions of people do, Pasadena and Alhambra
would be examples of relatively nice places.
http://www.idcide.com/citydata/ca/alhambra.htm
http://www.lapdcrimemaps.org/

City websites are also useful, since the LA area is a conterminous
hodgepodge of jurisdictions, a lot of which do their own reporting.

These all *are* cities and one should never quite let down one's
guard, of course.

Beyond that, I'd suggest that he or she size up shortlisted
neighborhoods by watching and listening at various times of day. Are
there signs of blight? Young adult males idling around with nothing
to do during the work day? At night, is there an active social life,
or a sense of menace, or just emptiness? How are people behaving?

Don't forget that there are threats other than crime. In some parts
of the general vicinity, wildfires and their aftermath partner,
mudslides, can be a concern, and of course one must be prepared for
an earthquake, in terms of not only having supplies in home and car,
but also choosing a dwelling wisely in terms of construction style
and location.

Getting a bit out of the safety/security realm and into more general
issues of well-being, consider smog, noise, and above all, commute
traffic when matching jobsite to homesite.

Best of luck,
--Joe
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Old January 26th, 2010, 10:06 AM posted to rec.travel.usa-canada
bobert
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Default Los Angeles - Pasadena/Alhambra area

In article ,
Ad absurdum per aspera wrote:

There are crime problems everywhere in LA.

* *There are crime problems everywhere.


All very true, but don't forget about the statistician who didn't know
how to swim -- drowned in a river with an average depth of three
inches.


On average everyone has one testicle and one ovary

bobert
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupid is forever

Bobert
In Central California
 




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