| The capital of California is Sacramento and there | | | | this city to be the skinniest city in the country |
| are several great places to live in outside of the | | | | with a body mass index of only 24.5. This may |
| Sacramento area. Roseville and Rancho Cordova | | | | explain why there are a number of professional |
| are two of the cities which should be considered if | | | | and Olympic athletes that hail from Roseville. |
| living in Northern California region. This article will | | | | Roseville has a strong economy in it with a lot of |
| look into the different things that these two cities | | | | retail businesses in it. It is the spot of one of the |
| have to offer and why they are nice places to | | | | largest Auto malls in the nation that helps the local |
| live, other than being located in beautiful northern | | | | community as well as being known for a great |
| California. An owner of a Rancho Cordova | | | | deal of shopping options. This city ranked as |
| corporate catering company that serves up some | | | | having the 11th highest retail sales in the entire |
| of the best Roseville BBQ catering in the area | | | | state of California last year with its wide variety |
| says he would live in no other community than | | | | of shopping options. It is known as a regional |
| Roseville or Ranch Cordova for many different | | | | shopping destination with people traveling there to |
| reasons. | | | | go shopping. The largest destination is the |
| The first city, Roseville has a population of a little | | | | Westfield Galleria which is continuing to expand |
| over 100,000 residents but is growing steadily | | | | and across the street from that is another retail |
| expecting it to be closer to almost 134,000 by | | | | location called the Fountains. They are hoping once |
| the year 2015. The area of Roseville is over 30 | | | | the economy improves, so will things in this great |
| square miles big and has several beautiful streams | | | | city of Roseville. |
| that go through the city named Dry Creek, Linda | | | | There are several other large employers in |
| Creek, Secret Ravine and Cirby Creek. This city | | | | Roseville like Hewlett-Packard, Kaiser Permanente, |
| has beautiful and lush vegetation that is so | | | | Union Pacific Railroad, and Sutter Roseville Medical |
| common in Northern California with the cooler | | | | Center is considered as some of the larger |
| climate and additional rainfall that it gets. Most of | | | | companies. In 1988 Roseville decided to undergo a |
| the rain falls during the cooler winters and the | | | | revitalization of the downtown area improving |
| summer are typically hot and dry in Roseville. | | | | many of the historic buildings that were falling |
| CNN's Money ranked Roseville as one of the Best | | | | apart. |
| Places to live in 2006. Another ranking showed | | | | |