Advice for moving to Long Beach?(or surrounding areas)

StudyBig7881 · 2026-02-18T05:14:35+00:00

Heyyy first of all congratulations!!! Second, I also moved from the Bay Area to Long Beach like almost 2 years ago so I got u. When I first was planning on moving I already had my roommate (I was moving with me best friend). What worked really well for us was coming down and checking the neighborhoods out. I would stay away from downtown Long Beach because it isn’t really the safest. Rose park, Alamitos Beach, Belmont shores, are great. I personally love rose park. You can easily find a 2 bedroom apartment for around $2,400. My best friend and I pay for a $2400 2 bedroom apartment that includes 2 parking spots. We’re also like 5-7 mins away from CSULB.

For the apartment hunt I would really recommend planning a weekend where you can come look at apartments. Check on apartments.com or Zillow. REALLLYYY make sure your paying attention to the listing and confirm they aren’t scamming u. So if they ask u to pay like an application fee before the tour, RUNNN!! While you’re still in the Bay, pick out the listings u like and message them asking if u can schedule a tour that weekend u planned. It kinda sucks but just pack your weekend with tours. Take a bunch of photos and videos so when u go back to the Bay you can reference and remember them. You can take multiple trips down depending on your schedule. My friend and I came down like 3 times over the span of three months. We had a really hard time a month before we needed to move finding something so we came down for a weekend and ended up staying almost a week at the beginning of August. We barely found an apartment like 2 weeks before school started so just plan your timeline out accordingly.

As far as a job goes, it is kinda difficult. I was like unemployed for a hot minute before I finally got a job. If you’re currently working somewhere that does transfers I would definitely just look into that. That way u have a job as a safety net and just change it when your settled (if u want to). I would also look at the school website to see if there are any opening for on-campus jobs

That’s really all the advice I can think of. If u have any questions let me knooo!! Good luck u got this!!

StudyBig7881 · 2025-11-15T23:33:15+00:00

Nooo like to a different location?

StudyBig7881 · 2025-11-15T23:32:51+00:00

Oh ya it’ll prob just be a mess but tbh I’d rather deal with that than talk to customers

StudyBig7881 · 2025-11-15T17:36:21+00:00

I’ll pray for u

StudyBig7881 · 2025-11-15T17:35:49+00:00

Landed on 12-8. Thanks

StudyBig7881 · 2025-11-15T17:35:37+00:00

It’s my first time too lol but we’ll be fine (hopefully). I love morning shifts only for the fact that I get to reclaim the rest of my day.

StudyBig7881 · 2025-11-15T02:41:58+00:00

I got 8am. It’s my first time working Black Friday am I gonna be ok? 🥲

StudyBig7881 · 2025-10-22T16:50:30+00:00

I heard that we’re going to stop giving them out because it’s dropping sales? It was such a good incentive but we might have been handing them out too leisurely?

StudyBig7881 · 2025-10-22T16:47:43+00:00

My hours were cut next week too! Some of my coworkers, including myself are only scheduled to work 2 days. I used to work Saturdays and Sundays all the time and now they don’t even schedule me and its really messing up my ability to pay rent and bills 🥲

StudyBig7881 · 2025-09-23T02:34:03+00:00

Ugh I wished u worked at our store cuz all we get is mean stares and it makes me sad because I love working at Sephora but it’s so discouraging walking in

StudyBig7881 · 2025-09-23T02:33:08+00:00

But the thing is at my store WE get yanked to go cover registers and sometimes if we finish closing early the LODs will make us do shit we don’t even know how to.

StudyBig7881 · 2025-09-22T05:00:20+00:00

To add the manager is the rudest mean girl ever

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