City of Elk Grove

As a current Sacramento resident, I do really enjoyed visiting to this Sacramento’s finest county neighborhood: Elk Grove. After it becomes a city since 2000, Elk Grove never disappoints after making several visits for the past 6 – 7 years. In Elk Grove, there are hundreds of attractions and exhibits to explore from the Old Town Elk Grove at Elk Grove Blvd to the most amounts of clean, natural parks and country clubs available, so you can make a «sigh of relief» moment for yourself.
Everywhere I go, Elk Grove has the most suburban houses ever between I-​5 to Highway 99 down south. All houses are well maintained and neatly clean. The parks as I mentioned earlier are defiantly the best destination to have a wonderful neighborhood picnic especially outdoor activities and sports too. Finally, schools and libraries are operating very well, so students can be educated here.
In some future years, I do believe that Elk Grove is about to grow again this decade despite the recession issues in 2007. Businesses from local and national are about to explode with more variety and passion on what Elk Grove means between nature and fun. I hope the city of Elk Grove will get their wish right by continuing their momentum going.
In the end, Elk Grove is the coolest county city right here in Sacramento. A well, deserving visit! My rating: 4 solid stars.

Oh EG. I protested your existence at first, but you’ve earned my heart. You remind me of my last suburb, before it became crazy scary (ugh…Antioch…). Please don’t turn scary on me, I don’t care that I live off Franklin.
You’re kinda boring, you’re incredibly suburban, there are too many chain restaurants and there are too many soccer moms.
But hey, you’ll do for now.

Elk Grove seems to be a quiet community for the most part. I have lived in all 3 zip codes and never had a problem in any of therm. I would give it 5 stars, but I knocked a star off for not having a nightlife (to each his/​her own) and the other reason is the mall that we are left wondering what’s to become of it — for now, it’s an eyesore.
I think that the city does a great job having/​allowing community events and that the park areas always seem well maintained to me and safe. I think the community has sufficient law enforcement — or at least I see them patrolling the city frequently.
I am glad that I lived and now stay in Elk Grove.

Elk Grove is a great place to raise a family without having the high cost of living in other areas. The downside is major shopping (meaning Macy’s, Nordstrom, etc.) and nightlife are in Sacramento, Roseville and Folsom. It is definitely not ghetto. Do we have some people that are up to no good? Of course, what city doesn’t? People who say Elk Grove is turning ghetto are usually those who have lived here since it was a 20,000 person sleepy town to now where it is 150,000. Of course there is going to be more crime than there used to be. But it isn’t any worse than Roseville or any other city of it’s size. Elk Grove police will pull over anyone that want’s to look gangsta. Drive a big circus mobile with huge ass rims and they will pull you over until you get rid of the car or move. There are many great neighborhoods consisting of both newer homes and older homes depending on where you want to buy and how much you want to spend. The upside is real estate is a great value (but is rising very quickly this year –2013) and if you can land steady work you can live much better than other cities in California. Now don’t get me wrong… there is no beach here or any destination vacation sites however most of us prefer to have lower mortgages so we can live in a nicer neighborhood and have enough money left over for our hobbies/​interests, travel, etc. It’s important to have some fun in your life and not just work your life away. The summer is not as brutal as people from outside the area say. Yes it gets hot but it’s a very dry heat and is usually in the mid 90’s. The nice part is that it doesn’t get really hot until past noon and it starts to cool down ALOT at about 7:00pm. We are very fortunate to have a nice breeze that blows in from the delta and it really cools fast. It’s not like Fresno or Modesto where it’s hot all night. That’s not to say we don’t have few days of 105 degrees plus but there isn’t very many and it’s not usually for very many days in a row before it cools down again. And yes, your body does adjust to the point where 90 degrees isn’t even a big deal (again, no humidity here). By the way I am from a nice neighborhood in the Bay Area so I grew up in very close proximity to great shopping, the beach, upscale dining. and all the good things in life people want. I also endured the stress of making enough money to live there and one day asked myself how often I got to enjoy all those things due to the high cost of living in the Bay Area. It wasn’t often enough and so I moved to Elk Grove and enjoy a far less stressful life and have money to go out and enjoy my weekends. There are pros and cons to living in both areas. Decide what’s important to you and evaluate your finances. If you’re wondering, our household income is $ 110,000 per year and we live in a brand new 3 bedroom 3 bath home w/​den in a nice area that we paid $ 305,000 for in March, 2013. This home in the bay Area would easily be $ 900,000. Hope this review is of some help to those of you considering Elk Grove.

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I have lived here for 4 years and am from the Sacramento area. The abundance of well manicured sidewalks and parks are amazing, however if you live in an area with mela Roos your taxes pay for this. Not a bad thing… don’t be surprised if section 8 houses pop up on your street. they did mine… again not necessarily bad, but good information to note. The schools are year round except high school. I didn’t care for it. The drivers are all distracted on their phones, so pedestrians must be careful when out. Don’t assume because there is a stop sign, people are gonna stop… elk grove pd is good and so is there response time. The CSD offers many sports and activities for children. The restaurants are awful chains, not even good one’s and driving 20 min to downtown sac gets old and isn’t worth the time nor money… So save your money and be prepared to cook ALOT! Life in the EG after 4 years has become old and stale. I guess if you have lots of friends and family any place is tolerable and EG might even be enjoyable for you. You will like it if you enjoy living on top of your neighbors and like a predictable routine. Not much to do here and not much better in Sac. The weather is nice, hot, and windy. And Driving almost 2 hrs to Tahoe and/​or SF gets old and expensive… not complaining just tellin it like it is… Moving out of state…

Lots of strip malls, but it is a clean suburb with a fair amount of things to do right in town. Not much nightlife, but you can drive to Sac for that. Anyone who says EG is ghetto has never been to EG or possibly has never seen a ghetto. Honestly I never see anyone who even looks ghetto. Maybe they are talking about the border of South Sac/​EG which can be kinda sketchy but 99% is nice or at least your average suburbia. I’ve looked up the crime stats on the FBI website, and the rates are way lower than Sac, comparable to Roseville. My main gripe about EG is that it is very flat and there are no large natural bodies of water anywhere nearby.

There’s a lot of parks and it’s nice there. My girlfriend lives there though so I’m biased.

Hum, sounds like the negative reviews of this city are coming from angry people who either don’t live in Elk Grove, or have a negative perception of fat people –which a lot of intolerant Americans do. I love this city. I loved it a lot more when the Borders bookstore was open but I can’t choose everything. I love where I live. Regardless of what the previous reviewer said, I do not see a lot of «ghetto» people walking around. Yes, I see a lot of overweight folks but aren’t Americans more on the bigger side weight wise than other countries. I don’t see why someone else’s weight would bother a person. If you wanted to see only fit people, then go live in a gym but beware fat people work out in the gym too.

What’s so bad about Elk Grove? I find it to be less ghetto than most of the other cities around Sacramento. Seems a hell of a lot cleaner & nicer than places like West Sac for example. If the previous reviewer thinks that fat trashy people of assorted ethnicities are unique to Elk Grove, then she’s got to get out more. Tract housing isn’t an EG phenomenon either — and at least they’re nice looking homes. Lots of shopping including some of the best supermarkets around. Only bad thing about EG is it’s a pain in the ass to get to & from during the week… traffic on the 5 and 99 can seriously go eat a big bowl of dicks.

This one time, in Elk Grove, I witnessed two girls making out on a city bus bench. And then this other time, well actually a lot of other times, I witnessed a whole big family of fat white people shopping at TJ Maxx. And then this one time, like a few years ago, about a bajillion strip malls and chain stores and tract houses started popping up out of nowhere, and now not only is there white trash, there’s Latina trash, black trash, trash of all shapes and sizes. But mostly fat sizes. And conservative redneck sizes. Which are usually fat.
P. S. I hate you.