To find a student-shared apartment, you can look for other students at CalTech, PCC, or other local colleges who need another person to share an apartment. Finding a house of any kind is very unlikely. If you want to live alone, you'll have to settle for a more modest apartment. PCC has a good library and there are public libraries scattered around Pasadena, as well, for studying. If you had mature roommates, you could afford a nicer place with some peace and quiet (to study) at a lower rent.
Do some research on which schools are well-reputed. All UC schools are good quality, but they rank from I'd say maybe UC Riverside near the bottom all the way up through UC Irvine, UC San Diego, UCLA, and UC Berkeley at the top. CalState LA does not impress me, but it's fine, though a few other Cal State schools are actually pretty nice. In each group of schools, there are better and worse choices. If you can, shoot for the better UC system, but you'll need very good grades to get in. These schools work to get you into either the California State University system (Cal State LA, Cal State San Diego, Cal State Long Beach, and many others), decent, if not fancy, colleges with lower tuition, or the more prestigious University of California (UCLA, UC Berkeley, etc) which are top universities. Similar schools that are ranked high and do the same thing include Santa Monica City College, also a two-year school. They plan to transfer to a UC campus or private college when their two years at PCC are finished. Many people who can't afford tuition at 4-year colleges take their first two years there. My daughter went there for awhile and it worked for her. It's not fancy, classes get over-subscribed at times, the campus is fairly nice but it's not particularly beautiful, it's a commuter school, and other such goods and bads. PCC is often considered the best, certainly one of the best, of the many California junior (or community) colleges, especially based on its very good record getting its graduates into 4-year colleges. South of Colorado Boulevard and west of Lake Avenue has many apartments on nice streets, as one example. Living in Pasadena can give you greenery, nice streets, proximity to shopping, and so on. For lower rent, consider Eagle Rock, Highland Park (both parts of LA), also Altadena which is a mile or two north of Pasadena, parts of Alhambra, and so on. Pasadena is not particularly inexpensive, but it's nicer than nearby areas. I don't want roommates but am ok with a studio or 1bd., house or apt. But that would leave me with barely anything. I could probably extend up to MAX $3k/mo. I will have a decent amount to budget for housing.
I don't party, love working out, doing the hipster thing concerts, fine arts, water, museums, plays, walkability lived in the hood in Atlanta for years, and Detroit, ok with a little rough area doesn't have to be ritzy, nicey nice area, but don't want Boyz 'n The Hood either. Then planning to settle and be a Cali lifer.Īny opinions on cost of living, rent costs around Pasadena? Same with the school, is it pretty decent? Reputation locally? I have about 1 year to do, then hoping to transfer to one of the CSU schools in whatever area I end up moving. One of the areas on the short list is Pasadena, specifically looking at Pasadena City College. Looking to relocate to LA or San Diego area.
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