The capital of California is Sacramento and there are many wonderful cities to live in outside of the Sacramento area. Two of the cities that are great choices to reside are called Roseville and Rancho Cordova. This article will look into the different things that these two cities have to offer and why they are good locations to live, other than being situated in beautiful northern California. An owner of a Rancho Cordova corporate catering business that makes up some of the most delicious Roseville BBQ catering in the area says he would reside nowhere else than Roseville or Ranch Cordova for many different reasons.
The first location, Roseville has a population of a little over 100,000 residents but is increasing steadily expecting it to have almost 134,000 by the year 2015. The area of Roseville is over 30 square miles large and has many gorgeous streams that go through the city named Dry Creek, Linda Creek, Secret Ravine and Cirby Creek. This city has great and lush vegetation that is so common in Northern California with the cooler climate and additional rainfall that falls there. Most of the rain happens in the cooler winters and the summer are typically hot and dry in Roseville. CNN’s, “Money,” magazine rated Roseville as one of the Best Places to live in 2006. Another ranking showed this city to be the skinniest city in the country with a body mass index of only 24.5. This may explain why there are a number of professional and Olympic athletes that are from Roseville.
Roseville has a strong economy in it with a lot of retail businesses in it. It is the spot of one of the biggest Auto malls in the country that assists the local community as well as being known for a significant amount of shopping options. This city was listed as having the 11th highest retail sales in the whole state of California last year with its wide variety of shopping choices. It has a great a regional shopping destination where people traveling there go shopping. The most popular destination is the Westfield Galleria which is continuing to expand and across the street from that is another retail destination named the Fountains. They are hoping as soon as the economy gets better, so will things in this great city of Roseville.
There are many other big employers in Roseville such as Hewlett-Packard, Kaiser Permanente, Union Pacific Railroad, and Sutter Roseville Medical Center employing thousands of people. In 1988 Roseville made the move to undergo a revitalization of the downtown area improving many of the historic buildings that were falling apart.
Rancho Cordova is a young community that was incorporated in 2003 and already has a population of 60,000 residents. It was named for the Cordova Vineyards that were located there. It has a diverse mixture of residents and many famous professional baseball players also, hailed from Rancho Cordova such as Chris Bosio and Max Venable. Another notable resident is Lester Holt from the Today Show.
Sacramento is not a good place to live..crime is high, rentals are sky high compared to the rest of the country which makes no sense when unemployment is high and pay is getting lower this is due to greedy landlords..I am from sacramento and left in ’06 for more affordable Tennessee..think twice before moving there..the state jobs are shrinking..they are laying off more than hiring..this was written when the economy was not as bad as it is now..recently the sales tax increased at a time when the economy is very bad ..does this make sense? I think not..I know of college grad friends with accounting and business degrees..they cannot find work in Sacramento..it is one of the worst places to live.