Most Peaceful & Sunny Place in Nor Cal? Fortuna? Redding? (San Diego: theater, public schools)

[Bulldogdad]

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[CA, NY, CA, DC, CA]

So...what did you ultimately decide?

It would be hard for any city or town in California to fulfill all of your requirements. You might have to sacrifice one or two of them. In any case, if I were to plug all of those criteria into a generator, I'd probably come up with Santa Rosa. Good luck!

[mrazyattic]

Every consider another state? As great as this state is cracked uo to be. There always seems to be an issue with just about every city......

[lrmsd]

Originally Posted by veganwriter

mstnghu2 wrote suggesting Pacifica??

Move there and you'll find your kids subjected to some of the most idiotic, moronic bullying on the planet. One Pacifica police officer stated: "We don't get the most crimes in California ... but we certainly get some of the weirdest."

Drug City: Generations of alcoholic families. Meth is the drug of choice, but crack ranks high too.

Schools: Pacifica has to have some of the stupidest kids I've ever encountered. Why? Their parents. The educational climate is so bad that only the worst teachers remain.

Mental Illness: Pacifica is a mecca for people on SSI and Welfare. It's often been described as a "White Ghetto."

Jealousy Reigns: I have never seen a city so filled with jealousy towards each other. It's a BEAUTIFUL location. Sitting right on Highway 1, it's an "affordable" beach town. But because of that, there are some real pockets of true ignorance, racism, and hate there. There are members of the Klu Klux Klan there along with wanna-be gang bangers.

Another places to avoid is, Daily City.
(LOL) Talk about ignorance...
Property crime and drug abuse are among the problems with DC.
Check out the demographics of both and you'll see how some of the issues of "Internalized Oppression" play out in both cities.

Wow-I have friends who've lived in Pacifica for decades and I've visited a number of times. The school rate pretty well, too. I am sure there may be some elements of what you described, but I have not experienced that the whole town is like this. I did not notice these elements at all when I've visited, actually. It does have working class roots [if that's what is meant by 'white ghetto'.]. It's also pretty expensive these days, including rentals (and not a big market so not that much availability anyway) and I don't know how anyone on welfare could afford it, section 8 or not. Again, if you check out the school reviews on great schools dot org, they are pretty solid. You could certainly do a lot worse in the bay area. But I've never lived there, so perhaps you have inside info.

[mysticaltyger]

Originally Posted by lrmsd

Wow-I have friends who've lived in Pacifica for decades and I've visited a number of times. The school rate pretty well, too. I am sure there may be some elements of what you described, but I have not experienced that the whole town is like this. I did not notice these elements at all when I've visited, actually. It does have working class roots [if that's what is meant by 'white ghetto'.]. It's also pretty expensive these days, including rentals (and not a big market so not that much availability anyway) and I don't know how anyone on welfare could afford it, section 8 or not. Again, if you check out the school reviews on great schools dot org, they are pretty solid. You could certainly do a lot worse in the bay area. But I've never lived there, so perhaps you have inside info.

I'd say no one should put too much stock in a post that mentions "Daily City" . (correct spelling: Daly City, with no "i").

[Ruth4Truth]

Anyplace desirable will be expensive. With the exception of Ukiah, mentioned above. Google weather averages, it gets warm in the summer. Most places in NorCal can get down into the 40's in winter. People from SoCal have a hard time getting their minds around it, and dealing with it. This is NOT SoCal, it's NOT "almost Mexico". We do have a winter.

But there's still a lot of sun, redwoods, and ocean. So take a cruise around, and see what places strike your fancy. Mill Valley, on the north end of the Bay, and Marin County, are great places to raise kids, but are expensive. So you'll have to head north to the more rural areas. Also be aware that the further inland you go, the more extreme the weather: hotter in summer, colder in winter. And there's heavy ground fog farther inland, too; especially in winter.

If you take a trip north, include Santa Cruz in your itinerary. Great for kids, redwoods, and beach. Not sure about the schools. It gets fog, but the fog burns off by 11:00 a.m., and it's sunny most days. Warning: traffic gets weird throughout the Bay Area after 3 pm. Plan accordingly.

[tstieber]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

Anyplace desirable will be expensive. With the exception of Ukiah, mentioned above. Google weather averages, it gets warm in the summer. Most places in NorCal can get down into the 40's in winter. People from SoCal have a hard time getting their minds around it, and dealing with it. This is NOT SoCal, it's NOT "almost Mexico". We do have a winter.

But there's still a lot of sun, redwoods, and ocean. So take a cruise around, and see what places strike your fancy. Mill Valley, on the north end of the Bay, and Marin County, are great places to raise kids, but are expensive. So you'll have to head north to the more rural areas. Also be aware that the further inland you go, the more extreme the weather: hotter in summer, colder in winter. And there's heavy ground fog farther inland, too; especially in winter.

If you take a trip north, include Santa Cruz in your itinerary. Great for kids, redwoods, and beach. Not sure about the schools. It gets fog, but the fog burns off by 11:00 a.m., and it's sunny most days. Warning: traffic gets weird throughout the Bay Area after 3 pm. Plan accordingly.

Most places in NorCal get into the 30s and 40s every night during the winter, although so does SoCal. That isn't such a big difference. But the daytime is ten degrees cooler. CAN it get into the 40s during the daytime in winter? Yes. San Francisco had one single day below 50 degrees all winter. It is exceedingly rare. Just like it's rare for SoCal to have days below 60 degrees in the winter. But nowhere in California is it warm in the winter on "average" anyway. If you can get 9 or 10 mild, warm, or hot sunny months out of the year, isn't that good enough?

[DMenscha]

Sierra Foothills. Anywhere.

[threepounduniverse]

Originally Posted by DMenscha

Sierra Foothills. Anywhere.

Mariposa.

[Hawk J]

Hills' around Carmel Valley & Arroyo Seco......

Carmel Valley, California - carmelvalleycalifornia.com