Where to live in Culver City Reddit

hey, I'm moving to LA in February. looking for a place between Santa Monica and Torrance. I know, huge area but anywhere within is fine, no commute constraint. looking for a one bed for $2500 max. I'm being sold on Culver City/Palms area, can anyone talk to the general safety out there. can I walk around at night or ride around on an electric bike without worrying I'll be mugged? how's the homelessness? car robberies? I'm coming from a big city so obviously I know some of these things will be unavoidable in LA. just tryna get a sense of severity. suggestions for anywhere else to live are welcome, thanks!

My soon-to-be roommate is interested in Culver City because it's near his work. I've lived on the East Side for years. I love neighborhoods like Atwater Village and Los Feliz. Will I find Culver City to be a fun place to live?

I'm most interested in living someplace walkable. Preferably, there will be non-threatening dive bars, used bookstores, and a decent live comedy venue. Does Culver City have this stuff?

To those of you who live there, what's your favorite stuff to do? And do you have any complaints?

Hello everyone! I'm moving to LA from NY for the first time because of a job, and so I know almost nothing about actually living in LA. My job is located in Culver City, and I plan on living as close as possible to avoid long commutes yet pick a place that is safe and affordable. My absolute max budget for rent (not counting all the other utilities) is $2k.

After some preliminary research, I'm considering the following areas for my apt: Santa Monica, Marina Del Rey, Mar Vista, Palms, and Culver City.

I was wondering if anyone on this subreddit could give me their feedback about which area they like? Please feel free to name any neighborhood not listed.

(Word of note: My commute in NY is 2 hours each way, so as long as my one-way commute is 30 minutes or less, I'll be over the moon!)

In advance, thank you to anyone who responds. I have two job offers, one in Culver City, one in Pasadena. I'm a 25 yo male, going to be working in either graphic/web design or architecture (I'm more intersted in the Pasadena job but the Culver City job pays more, but ignoring that...) I've been to both areas but I really don't know much about either. Being close to the beach is definitely a plus, other than that I have no idea what either really offers. Can anyone recommend one or the other? Help!

edit: I picked Pasadena based solely off of the jobs themselves, also i completely forgot about this post haha...hopefully other people find the info here useful!

I am considering moving from West Hollywood to palms/Culver City. I was wondering if anybody could give me a pros and cons list. I’m considering moving because it’s cheaper over there. Regarding safety, accessibility, and overall quality of life, what do y’all have to say about this neighborhood?

Edit: I feel lucky to have this subreddit and la people willing to help rather than just saying “don’t come here and become my competition for housing” because I understand that too! I don’t need weho getting any more expensive but this is my favorite city I’ve lived and there’s a reason so many people want to live here. Thanks to everyone giving me their 2 cents!! Its a lose-lose situation but part of why I love this city are the people

Culver City is a kinda big area with different sub-areas (with their own vibe. It is all pretty nice and residential.

There are fewer homeless camps inside Culver compared to across the street in City of Los Angeles. Culver City feels safer to me, Culver City PD seems to run a tighter ship in general.

If you can afford it, I would try to get closer to Downtown Culver/Sony/the train. Culver will only be more desirable /congested moving forward with Amazon, HBO, Apple, Sony, The Platform...and tons of construction around the Hayden Tract and over on La Cienega...etc all really taking off. Plus this gets you pretty easily into Downtown and over to Santa Monica.

I work in Culver in the Hayden Tract and dislike leaving the office between 2:30pm and 6pm. There are alot of schools and people commuting, it gets gridlocked. I work a 10-7pm schedule and it feels pretty breezy comparatively.

The best advice overall when moving to LA is to live as close to work as you can afford. It dramatically improves quality of life here.

Pros:

-great neighborhoods

-great infrastructure (we have our own services like cops, fire, etc.)

-great schools

-booming downtown

-destination for business to open hip new restaurants

-your typical CC resident is a young family with kids

-lots of festivals

-great walking/biking city

-all young families seem to want to move here now

Cons:

-high sales tax (all money goes to the schools though)

-the riff raff come in from the surrounding cities and cause shit (and this isn't a Beverly Hills type complaint...these dumbshits actually cause the majority of our muggings/damage to public property, which happens mostly around the mall)

-alternatives to Time Warner Cable only cover about half the city

-all young families seem to want to move here now

That's about it.

Rent can be expensive here. I own a duplex and could probably charge around $2k for my 2 bed/1 bath. It's a great location and right near downtown CC and West LA College. All about location right?

Nightlife is growing. DTCC used to be kind of dead, but with all the new eateries/revamped eateries around, people are starting to walk around/hang out in DTCC. There are a smattering of bars around CC...from dive bars (cozy inn, The Tattle Tale, Backstage, Scarlet Lady) to your cool/hip speakeasies (Blind Barber, Bigfoot West, Seventy7), to your ghetto hip hop joints (Rush Street, Carbon).

tl;dr: In all, CC just keeps going up and up as a cool/safe place to be. From the early 90's and before, it used to be pretty damn ghetto. A lot has happened since then.

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