r/Southpasadena

Hey all — we live near Marengo and had apparently been among the lucky few with solid Spectrum internet service....up until just recently.

We've had a few different hours-long outages over the past month or so now, including one that's actively going on as we speak today. Especially as someone who works from home, that's becoming a real problem. (It doesn't help that Spectrum conveniently raised our rates by $15/mo. for no apparent reason a couple of months ago, too, right in the midst of all of this. Yaaaay.)

I know we're annoyingly limited in high-speed options around here, but I'm thinking about giving one of the 5G home internet services a whirl to see if it's any better. Both Verizon and T-Mobile have options around $60 to $75 a month, and they both sound great on paper — but the big question, of course, is how consistent and reliable they actually are (especially with ongoing all-day use, where even the occasional blip is unacceptable). And that's just tough to know without real-world experience.

Has anyone here had any experience with either of those setups in this general area?

I'll probably give one or the other a whirl to see how it goes, but if anyone has any firsthand insight into how well either has worked around here, that'd be super-helpful to hear.

Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone, Friday night at 11-1:30 am I went to YAAMAVA tokut lounge with my friend. In the dance floor my friend said hey should we dance with these guys? Guy who caught my attention was wearing a brown jacket blue denim jeans and black doc martens with the most beautiful eyes ever. And long hair. He had the most perfect smile. He was with his friend who wore glasses and a white button up shirt. The guy with the brown jacket caught my attention with his friendlessnes told me it was his first time coming here and he didn’t know how to dance. I told him not to worry it was also my first time and I didn’t know how to dance as much, we danced a couple of songs the four of us towards the end he asked me if I was from the SB area I said no I’m from El Monte, he asked if I came here often I said not really and he asked me how old I was he told me he was 29. I got his name but a couple drinks in I forget it and I was dragged out the lounge by my friend who wanted to use the restroom couldn’t get no socials or anything. He was a shy guy too but by the look in his eyes and smile we both had mutual attraction. Does anybody know him? He is from Pasadena.
Sigh this will be so hard.

My family and I plan to move to South Pasadena this upcoming fall. I’ve been watching the rental market over the past few months and it seems as if landlords may be holding out until school resumes to avoid college kids renting their property.

Is that a fair assumption or is the vacancy rate that low?

When is the ideal time to find more rentals? Dual income of $220k/year.

Has anyone moved recently? Can you recommend a moving company? Everyone online does this “quotes” you never get until someone calls you. Moving from Raymond hill to arcadia. Thanks

hey y'all! so i (24f) grew up in south oc, but i've lived in la w/my gf (23f) for a little over 3 yrs. we lived in south central for a few months, then downtown (westlake/financial distrinct) for 1.5 yrs, and now we're in lincoln heights. we just renewed our lease bc $, but it'll be up again in april.

we have spent a lot of time in pasadena (specifically south pas) since moving here and we love the area - much more nature, a little more suburban but not too suburban, many things we love in the area (trader joes, vroman's, mendos, roots & rye, walking around old town, etc.). we know it'll be a bit pricier than our current situation, but we don't wanna leave la until after the olympics, so this seems like a rly good place to land for the next few years. here are some q's:

- our current combined after-tax annual income is just under 50k. my job doesn't give me many hours, so i'm hoping to get a new job soon (she works full time). do y'all think we could get a 1 bed w our current income, and if not, how much do u think we should be making?

- are there any specific areas or apartment complexes yall recommend? ideally, we'd have an elevator (if there are multiple floors), reserved covered parking, in-unit dishwasher/washer & dryer, & central ac

- is this a good area for our demographic? we are lesbians in our early to mid 20's, very leftist, we have a cat, autistic, and we love live music/comedy, going to cute little cafes to write, and nature!

- is the area walkable? ik that walkable is hard to come by in any part of la, but i'm curious if anyone has lived the places i've lived and can compare south pas/pasadena's walkability, or even if you haven't lived in those places and just wanna share ur perspective.

- anything else i should know before moving? we are semi-recent college grads so we aren't very established in our careers and only have a few years of experience with renting (she has more than me, at my school we were required to lived on campus for 4 years unless we had a reasonable exception, and housing was included in tuition, so when we had to sublease our old room i had to learn quickly haha)

tysm for any input anyone has!