Wrong side of Lake Avenue?

The Arcadia Housing Blog, a real-estate site, has a revealing post about real estate in Pasadena vs. Arcadia.

First off, it makes the Crown City sound like it is an amazingly cheap to live ("You can definitely expect to get more living square footage and land in Pasadena"), which is a stretch, to put it mildly. Especially considering that the house on the left goes for about $750,000. Three bedrooms, two baths, 1,500 square feet and that is a bargain? What can you buy for a third of that cost? Don't ask.

But the site also lets loose some commentary on the sacrifices one must make if one is to choose to live in Pasadena over the shining city on the hill, Arcadia:

"As apparent by the following profiles, you will get more house for the money but a highly rated school district isn't something you'll be buying into"

"Unfortunately, there exists (sic) many neighborhoods that you will want to stay out of (for safety reasons)"

Could it be that the neighborhood that contains house #2 (on the right) is one of them? Might that explain why this six-bedroom house is selling for the same price as the three-bedroom once pictured above?

As shown on this map the two houses are only about 1.5 miles apart.

Regardless of the cause of the price differences within Pasadena, all three homes in Arcadia sell for much more, indicating your average well-to-do suburbanite would prefer to live well to the east of Old Town.