BUMP...any takers?  Or can someone point me to the correct forum to post in if this is not the appropriate one?

Thanks!!  Yea, I've been searching on here alot...there are many contradictory responses of whats "nice" on these threads...I guess the only way to know is if I actually drove around.  Unfortunetly I'm not anywhere near to where I can do that.

Thanks.

This may be a bit late, but Davis (~25minutes from Sacramento) is pretty nice as in quiet and quaint especially during the summer months when there are no undergrads around but even when they are there.  And it's very safe - there's alot of police presence and an ongoing joke that they'll pull over people on bikes for not completely stopping at stop signs because there's nothing else for them to do.  Some of the worse crimes are bicycle theft and um.... um... yeah. Alot of medical professionals and professors working at the UC Davis medical center in Sacramento actually live in Davis. Worth checking out.