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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A thing to note OP, is [b]Pasadena is not LA[/b][i]. Its a 45 mins drive inland but a lot more relaxed and laid back. And a lot hotter, maybe 10-15 degrees most of the year which can get challenging if you have a heat wave.

In South Pasadena the public schools are some of the highest ranking in the whole greater Los Angeles area. There is a very high Asian population there and its credited with making these schools great. If you're not Asian this is the one place where your child will be very much in the minority. And the parent population is generally younger in Pasadena.

In Santa Monica or Los Angeles, Pacific Palisades, the parent population is late 30s+ for having kids so many parents of school age children in their 40s and 50s. But in Pasadena the parents are a lot younger, starting in their 20s and early 30s.

I don't know if this matters but it was something we observed while living there over the years.

I would go back in a heart beat.[/quote]

Pasadena is actually a 15 (no traffic) to 25 minute (rush-hour traffic) drive to Downtown Los Angeles (DLA).  It is straight shot from the Orange Grove Boulevard on-ramp to the 110.  That is why so many attorneys, doctors, financial, commercial real estate, and entertainment people who work in DLA, live in Pasadena.  I would liken the commute as one from Rosslyn or the GW Parkway-accessible part of Arlington to Downtown DC.

Both South Pasadena (population 26,000) and San Marino have excellent public schools (rated all 9s and 10s).  San Marino and Pasadena itself have some of the most beautiful houses and neighborhoods anywhere in the U.S.  There are many Asian families in all of the San Gabriel Valley, and more in San Marino (because it is smaller, pop. 13,300), than in Pasadena or South Pasadena.  But those areas are all very diverse, and there is really no one "majority" in any area.  Finally, Pasadena (pop. 139,000) is it's own small city, with a huge cross-section of any demographic, and access to everything you will need.  I do not know why the poster thinks of it as a particularly "young" city, as I think of it as an "older" person's town, but it is really young, old, and everyone in between.  [/quote]

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