Fresno, California

funcyChaos
Living in Fresno
2y ago
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Yes but it really depends on your lifestyle.

If you have ac at home and or work in ac during the summer, box checked. Don't go outside till dark.

The bar scene in tower district is pretty great imo and the new dispensaries are top tier.

The community is hit or miss and the neighborhoods and areas in general go from great to weird or sketch and back again every two blocks.

Traveling From Fresno is easy. Sf, the bay, lake Tahoe, the desert, all within 2 to 5 hours

All the negative things I could say about Fresno, the truth is the only cities I'd replace it with are expensive

ImportantOutcome67
Living in Fresno
2y ago
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I'm from Wisconsin, live in the foothills, but do a lot of my shopping in the 'No.

When I first moved to California, Fresno had a REALLY bad rep. And there are some pretty rough parts of town. Conversely there's plenty of good neighborhoods, as well.

BUT…… it is centrally located, relatively easy access to the mountains or beaches. It's pretty easy to get around town, it's not too big, and it has everything you need.

The baseball stadium is pretty good, Broadway comes to the Saroyan, the climbing gym is good. There is a top notch Children's Hospital just outside of town, a big deal if you have or are going to have kids.
Air quality is horrendous. Every year it gets worse with the pollution from ag and the fires. Everyone here will eventually get some sort of cancer from chemicals and pollution.

As everyone else has said, the best part about Fresno is the proximity to other stuff, mountains, parks, beach, etc. Having been born and raised here, I’d suggest you avoid living in CA at all as the taxes and politics are getting worse, but if you do have to live in CA, then Fresno/Clovis is tolerable. Just make sure you live North of Shaw…. maybe even north of Herndon now.

dragonslayerchris
Living in Fresno
10mo ago
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The summer can get extremely hot averaging about 105-109 but there’s places to go, AC, and pools. Once it gets dark it’s not horrible.

Fresno is very much an urban sprawl that is dominated by automobiles, they are trying to update our bus system but other than that we don’t have much public transport.

We are pretty close to LA and San Francisco, but have most of the amenities and entertainment that they do. It’s fun to vacation/visit there but it’s not necessary to go there for items. We also have a huge food truck collection here that hosts events all the time with a thriving brewery scene in downtown

The LGBTQ community is thriving and growing with a huge pride event every year in the Tower District. It’s also a great area to bar hop, eat, shop and live. There’s some crime but pockets of that are all over the city even in the nicer areas like any big city.

The only thing to worry about really is air quality during fire season since the mountains are about 20 minutes away. It can get kind of bad but nothing threatening the city, if there’s a earthquake we only experience minor tremors that you don’t notice at all

Despite what most people think Fresno is starting to vote blue if you look at any Citi of Fresno voting demographics, we do have some very loud republican representatives, but they have more bark than they do bite. Our mayor, despite being our former police chief is leaving very center lately.

Overall Fresno has the same problems any big city has but also has a lot to offer with the location and amenities it offers. I’ve grown up here and had opportunities to leave, but those that say they’re stuck here don’t know how to search for the fun and entertaining things to do

propita106
Living in Fresno
10mo ago
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Welcome! Welcome? Take your pick! Lol

Weather/air:

It gets smoggy. Sometimes bad in the summer.

If there's bad fires 50 miles away and the wind blows it our way…well, not as bad as NYC was this past summer. But twice in the last 5 years I went to the doctor about breathing issues--he prescribed an inhaler. I don't have asthma. He said there were lots of prescriptions going out.

Summers are routinely over 100 F for weeks, even over 110 F for quite a while. Winter nights can get to just below freezing.

I wish Fresno had more stuff, like LA (I'm from SoCal originally), but there's enough pluses about Fresno, so…. I prefer LA to Frisco. We (Husband and I) go to LA maybe 4x/year.

Tower District has Pride Days and various things. Some neighborhoods may be AHs about things, but most are fine. Gays in our Fresno High neighborhood? No problem. Trans at Planet Fitness? No problem.

Natural disasters:

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