What it like to live in Long Beach, CA?

Question

I am a 25 year old college student from Kansas...I am single, have no kids, and I'm looking to transfer to a school in southern California..CSU LB looks like a good school for my major (graphic design/art) but what is it like to LIVE in Long Beach as a young, single woman? Night life..what's it like? Are there good surfing beaches nearby? What's the party/club scene like?

Answer 1

As an out of state student your tuition will be very expensive. Housing is also very expensive. A 1-bedroom apartment with very few amenities in a safe area will rent for over $1000 a month.

There is no surfing in Long Beach due to the breakwater which protects the port. There is surfing in neighboring Seal Beach and Huntington Beach. Seal Beach is a very cute and safe town, which makes it more expensive.

Long Beach is a city of 500,000 people that covers 50 square miles. If you do the math that a lot of people per square mile. It's very diverse, compact, busy and noisy. You name it, we got it. Rich, poor, middle class, gay, straight and every ethnic group.

We've got plenty of bars and live music venues. Country, hip-hop, punk and everything in between.

Belmont Shore (it's not Shores) has plenty of good shopping, bars and restaurants. It's also a cute neighborhood to live in. If you like artsy scenes than 4th Street 'Retro Row', East Village Arts District and Bixby Knolls First Fridays are some places you should visit. There are tons of festivals and arts related events in LBC. The Art Theater on 4th Street shows art house movies in an old Art Deco theater. Most of the bars in Long Beach tend to be dive bars with lots of hipster scum in them.

A lot of people smoke marijuana here. As a non-native I'm surprised to see people walking down the street smoking weed or smell weed while I'm walking down the street.

I live in a historic neighborhood by the beach and it's the type of place where everyone looks out for each other. People say 'hello' when they walk by you and there are always plenty of people skateboarding, biking, jogging and out enjoying the weather.

There are plenty of crappy of neighborhoods in Long Beach though. Look up //www.meganslaw.ca.gov/ and you'll see there are a huge number of registered sex offenders in some neighborhoods. Obviously you should avoid those.

There are a lot of homeless and trash diggers in Long Beach and Southern California. For the most part they're harmless.

To sum it up. If you have the money, being young and single in Long Beach is pretty good.

Answer 2

Something I got to warn you. I hope you have an open mind when you move to California, because a lot of behaviors that come from the mid-west are completely unacceptable here in the area. You don't have to accept their different religions or sexual orientations, (lots of open gays and lots of religions and cultures here compared to Topeka) you just got to accept the fact that you'll be hanging out and surrounding yourself with a lot of them.



For example, a specific person in this forum, who likes to pretend she's from California, who actually lives in Oklahoma, and you can tell, because she spews her racism around. She thinks that's normal behavior in Los Angeles, because in Oklahoma, that's DEFINITELY the norm (had family who lived in the Broken Arrow area.) If she was living in Los Angeles, she would be moving back to Oklahoma before the angry mob shouts, "GET OUT!"



In Long Beach, the night life is definitely more crazy than in, let's say, Topeka. A majority of places are still open after 10:00PM, the clubs are bumping, and the college parties are rocking. It's a fun event for college kids, pretty much. In some of the college parties, you'll even get to see students drinking alcohol, smoking marijuana, cocaine, and some are high on ecstasy even. Just keep in mind, 1. It's optional and 2. You can walk away from those parties if you want to. I'm not saying that it's a bad area to live in. I'm just letting you that these things do happen and I've seen it personally.



Can't really say much about living there as a young single woman, considering I'm a young, single man.

Answer 3

maximum cities with 500,000 people have sturdy and undesirable factors. it extremely is a very distinctive city so in case you do in comparison to distinctive races, religions and sexual preferances than it won't be the area for you. LB leans in direction of liberal ideologies. it extremely is crammed with very man or woman neighborhoods that anybody is pleased with. each and every community has unique bars, shops and eating places that are hidden from the informal customer to the city. people over 30 are informal and friendly. For some reason the 20 somethings are not very friendly. no longer understanding the place you're from all i will assert is that is like residing in the different city. in reality it extremely is a great suburb of la. in case you reside interior the superb factors very on the factor of the coastline than it extremely is a secure place to stay. Like anybody else has stated, North long coastline is the worst portion of LB inspite of the reality that there are different different wallet of LB which you does no longer prefer to stay in. do no longer stay in downtown long coastline. i do no longer care what number $2000 a month residences they build down there, it continues to be a sketchy section crammed with homeless and wanna be gang bangers. sure, we get quakes and no, we don't get wildfires. long coastline is amazingly densely populated and there are no undeveloped huge open areas. In 1933 long coastline replaced into just about destoyed by technique of an earthquake. as a results of fact of that there are actually very strict construction codes in California. the internet website under is for the long coastline Police branch and it exhibits crime information. The police branch in many circumstances has 3 'ghetto birds' a.ok.a. helicopters flying over the city at one time so if something undesirable does ensue the copters responf promptly.

Answer 4

Make sure you visit first, because much of Long beach is a ghetto, especially the north side, it's really no different from Compton in some areas. Belmont shores is very nice, but pricey. Same with seal beach.

Answer 5

east side

Answer 6

lots of midgets in thongs here