Some advantages to Echo Park and Silver Lake are that they're close to Griffith Park, "the largest publicly owned park in the United States... 4,400 acres in the hills and features the Los Angeles Zoo, the Griffith Park Observatory Planetarium and Laserium, (the list continues but the zoo and planetarium were the two most exciting things to me).
Silver Lake is south of Los Feliz, which is the rich and "funky" community. Silver Lake sounds expensive, though, Echo Park sounds better.
Here's what they say about Echo Park:
"This largely blue-collar, Latino community hugs the base of the hills."
There's a park called "Elysian Park", and the topography is kind of steep so there are stairs everywhere, like these called "The Avalon Stairways":
Kind of reminds me of a nice version of our East Side. Also, Dodger Stadium is nearby, so sporting events make everything hard to get to. I do not like the Dodgers, but they aren't very good so it's ok. I'd still go to games to drink, just like I do for the Brewers.
There's still supposedly a Whole Foods coming to Echo Park, but the story about it opening was posted in May and there hasn't been an update. Luckily we have just enough time that hopefully it'll open.
The best part about Echo Park? "Housing prices in this urban neighborhood tend to be reasonable."
http://historicechopark.org
www.mta.net (for Metro/bus routes)
Studio City might be one worth investigation. Might.
The "Finding a place to live" section of this book is less fun. It's pretty dense and I don't really feel like reading it much. It gives you a lot of options and lists pros and cons, but I kind of just want them to tell me what's the best.
The largest banks on the West Coast are Bank of America, Washington Mutual, and Wells Fargo. So, I'll probably transfer all of my money to stupid Wells Fargo once it's summer.
Bestplaces.net is a pretty cool website that compares cost of living and quality of life stuff from different cities.
It tells me this about West Hollywood:
For comparison, here's regular-ass LA:
For even more comparison, here's Milwaukee:
Sherman Oaks is expensive, it sounded good though. I won't tell you the description because it sounded awesome until they started going on and on about how expensive it is. The closer you get to the beach/ocean, the more expensive everything gets. So LA really isn't all that bad compared to Venice, Long Beach, Santa Barbara, etc.
A store/city we might want to consider is Glendale.
https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/glendale
It's the closest one to the Silver Lake/Echo Park area (at the moment):
Lots of snooty customer reviews again, but the average is 3.8 out of 5!
I wish I had thought of charging that much for a watermelon!
Here's the "Bestplaces" writeup on Glendale:
The good reviews of stores are always "great organic food!" and the bad ones are always like "So Expensive!" or some rant about a bad experience. We should probably add Glendale to our shortlist of stores though, even if it'd require a commute.
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Silver Lake is south of Los Feliz, which is the rich and "funky" community. Silver Lake sounds expensive, though, Echo Park sounds better.
Here's what they say about Echo Park:
"This largely blue-collar, Latino community hugs the base of the hills."
There's a park called "Elysian Park", and the topography is kind of steep so there are stairs everywhere, like these called "The Avalon Stairways":
There's still supposedly a Whole Foods coming to Echo Park, but the story about it opening was posted in May and there hasn't been an update. Luckily we have just enough time that hopefully it'll open.
The best part about Echo Park? "Housing prices in this urban neighborhood tend to be reasonable."
http://historicechopark.org
www.mta.net (for Metro/bus routes)
Studio City might be one worth investigation. Might.
The "Finding a place to live" section of this book is less fun. It's pretty dense and I don't really feel like reading it much. It gives you a lot of options and lists pros and cons, but I kind of just want them to tell me what's the best.
The largest banks on the West Coast are Bank of America, Washington Mutual, and Wells Fargo. So, I'll probably transfer all of my money to stupid Wells Fargo once it's summer.
Bestplaces.net is a pretty cool website that compares cost of living and quality of life stuff from different cities.
It tells me this about West Hollywood:
Sherman Oaks is expensive, it sounded good though. I won't tell you the description because it sounded awesome until they started going on and on about how expensive it is. The closer you get to the beach/ocean, the more expensive everything gets. So LA really isn't all that bad compared to Venice, Long Beach, Santa Barbara, etc.
A store/city we might want to consider is Glendale.
https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/glendale
It's the closest one to the Silver Lake/Echo Park area (at the moment):
Originally a Mrs Gooch’s Market, we have been serving the Glendale Community since 1985!
We take up a full city block on Glendale Ave between California and Lexington with plenty of parking, a lovely patio eating area and a park-like atmosphere.
One thing that has not changed is the unique upbeat energy and welcoming “family” feel that we’ve always had at the Glendale store, perpetuated by our dedicated and passionate team members! We are proud that people find us special and we invite you to join our extended family and find out why so many of our customers – old and new friends - choose our market as their favorite place to shop!
We have grown with the community and we now offer more than ever before! We welcome one and all from the surrounding communities such as Montrose, La Crescenta, La Canada-Flintridge, Atwater, Eagle Rock, Silver Lake, Los Feliz Village, Echo Park, Highland Park, Glassell Park, Mt Washington and many more neighborhoods who call our store their "home store"!
Lots of snooty customer reviews again, but the average is 3.8 out of 5!
Here's the "Bestplaces" writeup on Glendale:
Next Blog:
Move.com
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