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Author Topic: Living expenses in CA Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 08-04-2004 11:29 PM                  Somehow I have the idea that you are referring to "Feel-O-Rama" from Kentucky Fried Movie. BTW: Did I ever tell you how much I hate italics? HA! >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 08-05-2004 12:03 AM                        Oh goody! Another button to push! Example of SoCal rent (circa 2001): My one-bedroom in a nice part of Long Beach was $835 a month. Older (early '60's) place, big, unfurnished, no fridge, no A/C (didn't really need it), pool, one car garage. Good location, five minutes to any of three freeways, CSULB, and the Long Beach airport; also a couple of miles from the beach. My previous place about a mile away was a lot newer, smaller (about 500 sq.ft.) and more expensive--started at $900 and rose to over a $1000 a month before I finally got out of there.  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 08-05-2004 12:08 AM                     See what I mean? No fridge. What's up with that?  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 08-05-2004 12:33 AM                        Yeah, I don't get it either. All the apartments I've had in 'Vegas and OKC came with fridges, even the unfurnished ones. I bought a cheap used one from my new boss about a week after I moved in.  |  IP: Logged Ken Lackner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1907 From: Atlanta, GA, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 08-05-2004 12:38 AM                     My girlfriend told me she was looking around on the internet for appartments, and she found one she thought I would like, except it didn't have a fridge. I told her fughettaboutit. I wouldn't even consider an appartment without a fridge. I thought that was just an isolated case, because I've never heard of an appartment without a fridge. Is this the norm out there? Are there any appartments that do have a fridge?  |  IP: Logged Tony Bandiera Jr Film God Posts: 3067 From: Moreland Idaho Registered: Apr 2004 posted 08-05-2004 01:40 AM                     Ken; Just sent you an email. Most apts. out here have no fridge but do have stoves. Required by law I think. You can get new full-size fridge for about $250 from Costco/Sam's Club out here.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 08-05-2004 01:08 PM                     Every apartment I had in Santa Monica and Los Angeles (Venice area) had a fridge with it. With those places I lived near the beach. Now I live in Manhattan and the apartment came with a fridge. About three days after I moved in, they delivered a brand new fridge to replace the one that was in the apartment for some reason.  |  IP: Logged Ken Lackner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1907 From: Atlanta, GA, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 08-05-2004 01:36 PM                     OK, here's an update. I'll be flying out probablly in 2 or 3 weeks to start working, and look for a place. Once I get a place, I'll fly back, pack up, and move. My supervisor gave me the names of some locations that would be good to live in as far as being centrally located to my territory, as well as not being located in the ghetto. They are, in no particular order, Long Beach, Cerritos, Cypress, and Lakewood. Suggestions?  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 08-05-2004 01:51 PM                     Long Beach and Lakewood areas are nice. I would live in Santa Monica, but it's cost to much now. Where is your base location of the company?? I know you will be driving around in Southern California. This would give a idea of where to live vs. how much you will be driving to get home.  |  IP: Logged Ken Lackner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1907 From: Atlanta, GA, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 08-05-2004 02:04 PM                     I don't have a base, per se. As a tech, I'll be traveling to each of the theaters in the territory, doing PM and responding to emergencies. There really won't be one theater that I'm at most of the time, at least as far as I know. That's why I want to live as close to the "center" of the territory as possible.  |  IP: Logged Tony Bandiera Jr Film God Posts: 3067 From: Moreland Idaho Registered: Apr 2004 posted 08-05-2004 02:35 PM                     All four locations are pretty nice. Cypress is closest to the hideous 405 FWY and the 605, Long Beach, 605 and 710 Fwys, (so-so), Lakewood near 605 and 5 Fwy (5 sux) and finally Cerritos is near 91 and 605 Fwys,it would be more "central" as it is more inland than the others. Cerritos is really nice but a little pricy. So is Cypress, I would imagine it to be less central than the other choices. Long Beach you have to be really careful, it has some really bad areas. Lakewood is not too bad at all. When you arrive I can show you all of these areas.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 08-05-2004 05:44 PM                        Unfortunately some parts of Lakewood are getting pretty gangy these days. Avoid north and west Long Beach, but south and east (generally around the CSULB campus) are good. As Tony says, Cerritos and Cypress are both good too, right on the border between LA and Orange counties (Cerritos in LA, Cypress in Orange). Many of Disneyland's part-time workers are college students at Cypress Community College.  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 08-19-2004 03:02 PM                     Once everyone has settled in we should have a Welcome Ken & Manny / Good Riddence COOT gathering of some sort.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 08-19-2004 11:07 PM                  Not to worry, Mike..the feeling is mutual. >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Ken Lackner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1907 From: Atlanta, GA, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 08-27-2004 12:44 AM                     OK, finally got my travel plans today. I'll be arriving at Los Angeles Monday, September 6, at 11:22 am, and I'll be staying at the Long Beach Extended Stay hotel. I have up to a month to find a place, which means I could be staying at the hotel as late at October 6. Hopefully I'll get a place much sooner so I can come home, pack up, and move. I look forward to meeting you guys.  |  IP: Logged

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