I am thinking about moving to LA. I am going to be working in the century city area. Where do most of the people live? I would like to take a weekend trip and see the potential areas. Can someone tell me where most people live and the price range to by property in that area? Also commute time info would be great?
2007-09-27 05:33:19 · 5 answers · asked by Katie 1 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ Los Angeles
It entirely depends on how much you want to spend and what type of neighborhood you want to live in.
My wife and I went to UCLA (very, very close to Century City). She had an apartment in Westwood and I lived in Santa Monica and West LA.
There is housing in Century City, and there are actually quite a lot of decent apartment buildings in the area.
Westwood (the village just to the south of UCLA) is very expensive, but as you move south of Wilshire, it becomes much more reasonable.
As you move west from there towards Santa Monica, there is a lot of housing in the West LA area (between Westwood and Santa Monica south of Wilshire). Brentwood (just north of Wilshire between Westwood and Santa Monica) is a very nice area. Santa Monica was my favorite place to live while I was there.
If we had stayed in LA, we had committed on moving to Santa Monica or Manhattan Beach.
As you move south along the 405, you pass through Palms and Culver City. While my wife's grandmother lives in Culver City, her father (who grew up there) would not recommend living there... (Neither would I.) Same goes for Palms.
(Note that everything I said has to do with renting. I left LA long before I got into the home purchasing market, but the general neighborhood relative prices and quality are comparable to the apartment market.)
As far as commute times, my cousin lives in Brentwood and works in Century City and says it takes her about 20 minutes to get to work. That is consistent with my experience. When I lived in Santa Monica (just past Brentwood), it took about 20-30 minutes to get to UCLA.
I should also mention that you can head the other direction from Century City into Beverly Hills, Beverlywood, West Hollywood, and so on.
Much of the affordable housing market is in "The Valley" (San Fernando Valley, north of the LA Basin). Living there requires driving over the Sepulveda Pass, which is a traffic nightmare. It's also a lot hotter in The Valley than in the basin.
It all depends on how much you want to spend and how much time you want to spend in your car...
2007-09-27 17:19:01 · answer #1 · answered by goobrruuinnzz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are apartments all over the LA area. Average range is $1200 for a studio apt and going up from there.
2007-09-27 05:38:14 · answer #2 · answered by Hayz's Peach - أماندا & حسن 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Working in century city, the best areas to live are west hollywood, west LA, santa monica, culver city.
A lot of apartments in those areas, one bed room go to $1500.
2007-09-27 07:34:04 · answer #3 · answered by tom c 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The cheapest besides the getto in around 1200.00$$ studio!!! I say run!! Born, raised & lived there for 30yrs. Glad to be out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Traffic is AWFUL!!! Can take anywere from 1 1/2 to 3 hours!!!!! & SMOG!!!!!!
2007-09-27 19:48:59 · answer #4 · answered by AllTackedUp 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hope you have a large savings account if you are moving here because you will need it until you get your first pay check.
2007-09-27 08:45:03 · answer #5 · answered by A O 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋