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please help with advice!
We are new in LA, and we want to relocate here. We have been doing house hunting but is still so hard to decide to an area for relocating, this LA county is so huge! Please want some advices from people who live in Long Beach, Torrence ans Redondo Beach. Which are the areas in this places that would be better for us to move in, we are a young couple but we want kids soon, and I might have to stay alone sometimes because my husband will be working overseas.
Thank you and appreciate your advices
Re: please help with advice!
I lived in the South By (which is the general term for the areas your are looking in) for my whole life, until the last 3 years or so.
Those areas are too big to narrow down, especially because you must have some budget. There are really expensive, really great areas all over the south bay. There are more reasonably priced (relative term- still expensive) so and still great schools and great neighborhoods. Then there are really bad areas. I'll give you some input
Torrance has great schools and a great police department. Avoid anything in the Harbor Gateway (anything near the 110 freeway). Generally the South, West and North areas are best (in that order) and East is less so, but still has some okay areas. These ordinal areas are well known and people will advertise using these areas.
Redondo Beach is nice and family friendly, but more expensive. Still good schools, higher property taxes, less fantastic but good police dept. No "bad" areas per say, but the Hollywood Rivera is sort of the best area
Other "Beach Cities" besides Redondo- Manhattan Beach (VERY nice, pretty expensive), Hermosa Beach (younger, smaller, more "small town" but wealthy and relaxed), El Segundo (very family friendly). All the beach cities have really great schools, are safe, and good places to live. They are more expensive than Torrance.
Long Beach- I'm not as well versed. Okay but not great schools, okay police, very quality mixed neighborhoods and less space overall- poor parking, less yards, etc. But a cool vibe and way more of a "city" than the other areas.