Best place to live in Calif. (for poker) - Page 2

SossMan · #11 02-02-2005, 06:16 PM

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I prefer to live in a non-Urban area with reasonable traffic and cost of living.

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San Luis Obispo and play online.

TheMetetron · #12 02-02-2005, 07:51 PM

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I prefer to live in a non-Urban area with reasonable traffic and cost of living.

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San Luis Obispo and play online.

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LOL! That's not a bad suggestion... SLO isn't THAT reasonable though... of course, by California standards it is dirt cheap. Pretty place too... college was fun [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Soviet Exile · #13 02-02-2005, 08:00 PM

The place you are seeking does not exist. All of the big rooms are in urban areas.

Sacramento is cheaper than the Bay or LA, but I think the rooms are smaller and fewer in number. If I am catching your drift properly, though, you'd probably consider Sac an urban area. If you really want to do this, I'd try living in an urban area for a while and see how I like it. San Diego maybe?

Justin A · #14 02-02-2005, 08:48 PM

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Oceanside is relatively cheap for the area and you could camp out at Ocean's Eleven all day every day.

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I agree. Oceanside is a very nice place to live, has Ocean's 11, and Commerce isn't more than an hour and a half away, probably closer.

fooz · #15 02-02-2005, 11:39 PM

Well, SF kicks ass. But is Urban and expensive. I'm currently living in the ghetto for $1550/mo.

There are a number of small towns further South of San Francisco and North of San Jose that are cheaper and within reasonable drives to the Card clubs: Bay 101, Lucky C's, Artichoke Joe's. Or there are some very suburban neighborhoods that sprawl out east of the bay with more card clubs over there.

snakehead · #16 02-03-2005, 01:21 AM

the place you described isn't in ca, it's scottsdale. but the closed place to this in ca is palm springs. if you want the la area, try long beach or hacienda heights. if you don't mind a drive, move to the eastern empire.

pokerswami · #17 02-03-2005, 05:06 AM

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if you don't mind a drive, move to the eastern empire.

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From a Tennessean, what/where is the "eastern empire"?

(I did live in SF for a year, 1974, but I'm sure cost of living is probably close to 10 times greater. I actually commuted on the cable car for 25 cents per trip, including transfer to anywhere on the system of street cars, buses, trolley buses and cable cars. No way to beat that.)

sternroolz · #18 02-03-2005, 10:21 AM

You can possibly find reasonable 2 bedroom apartment rates in Alhambra or Monterey Park. By reasonable I mean $1000-1200 per month. The main business district in Alhambra is nice with decent restaurants and a microbrew place. The population mix in these two areas is about 60% asian, 30% latino, and 10% other. Both are ok, although there are slightly seedy areas of Monterey Park between Garvey Ave and the 10 Fwy to the east of Atlantic. Alhambra is better.

Without traffic it is appx 10 minute drive to Commerce and The Bike, about 25-30 minutes to Hawaiian Gardens, Hustler, and Hollywood Park. With traffic, its about 20 minutes to Commerce and Bike, and 45 minutes to the others.

And the others are correct, the place you describe in your post does not exist in California.

Another alternative is to live in the areas surrounding Commerce or Hawaiian Garden. This is not gonna be a popular choice as the neighborhoods are entirely latino, and crime is higher than in some of the places mentioned. But there are nicer areas of both cities as well as nearby cities such as (for hawaiian garden) Lakewood, Cerritos, Bellflower and (for Commerce) Montebello, Commerce, Downey. Sometimes you can find a good price for rent in these areas and really, the neighborhoods are not that bad.

gmunny · #19 02-03-2005, 03:09 PM

Stay away..you don't want to live and play poker in California..

We have earthquakes here, you probably don't have enough casusal clothes to wear, you can get skin cancer from too much sun, etc....

Sponger15SB · #20 02-03-2005, 03:19 PM

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Oceanside is relatively cheap for the area and you could camp out at Ocean's Eleven all day every day.

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After reading all the other responses and thinking about it, Patrick is right.

The areas around the casinos in LA are crapholes. Well, most of LA is in general, but you get my point.

Oceanside is a reasonably nice beach community, you've got a pretty good poker room right there, and you're about an hour and fifteen away from commerce.