Poor man's San Luis Obispo? (Atascadero, Pismo Beach: apartment, renting, living in)

[Archan]

You might want to look at extreme Northern California or Southern Oregon. The climate is different than SLO, but it is a lot more reasonably priced. The coast is very beautiful up there.

[Capt. Dan]

Oceano or Guadelupe?

[chaotix]

Originally Posted by AlwaysSmiling

Amen Clarks.
I was just going to say the same thing.
Great picture by the way!!

I stand corrected, I meant to say it was not a real beach, for my standards anyway. More ocean than beach, like the rest of the coast in California, too cold, Surfer's delight. My notion of a beach is the Caribbean. Oh well, technically it is a beach.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Originally Posted by mrsltd

But then you will be leaving a Mediterranean climate

That's not quite correct. Most definitions of North American climate zones place the boundary between the Mediterranean and Marine West Coast climate zones near the Oregon border. Although a few more radical ones show a sliver of Marine West Coast coming further south at the immediate coast. But the flaw in that is they use fog and marine layer drizzle to make that argument, which is not correct. The paths of mid latitude weather systems are the only truly correct definition.

Bottom line, Mendocino is for all intents and purposes Med as is Fort Bragg. Although, I do concede rainfall is progressively higher further up the coast. But to put it in perspective, at the immediate coastline the 20 in rainfall line is at SF. Local orographic effects are more prominent than latitude in determining rainfall, for example, the hills near Pt. Conception have higher rainfall than downtown SF does. And similarly, the King Range has the highest rainfall in CA meanwhile places at the immediate coast only a few miles from there only get 30 or 35 inches per year. That's on par with the French Riviera.

[mrsltd]

Originally Posted by BayAreaHillbilly

That's not quite correct. Most definitions of North American climate zones place the boundary between the Mediterranean and Marine West Coast climate zones near the Oregon border. Although a few more radical ones show a sliver of Marine West Coast coming further south at the immediate coast. But the flaw in that is they use fog and marine layer drizzle to make that argument, which is not correct. The paths of mid latitude weather systems are the only truly correct definition.

Bottom line, Mendocino is for all intents and purposes Med as is Fort Bragg. Although, I do concede rainfall is progressively higher further up the coast. But to put it in perspective, at the immediate coastline the 20 in rainfall line is at SF. Local orographic effects are more prominent than latitude in determining rainfall, for example, the hills near Pt. Conception have higher rainfall than downtown SF does. And similarly, the King Range has the highest rainfall in CA meanwhile places at the immediate coast only a few miles from there only get 30 or 35 inches per year. That's on par with the French Riviera.

Thanks, Hillbilly.

I would have said where the redwoods start is where the Med ends, but redwoods grow naturally as far south as Big Sur.

Perhaps there is a case to be made for a transition zone between the two climes? Kind of off topic, but......

[CA central coast]

Originally Posted by Capt. Dan

Oceano or Guadelupe?

That's poor man's by the ocean, but learn your Spanish.

If you plan on renting, I'd suggest Los Osos. It's on the coast and you're 10 min. to the city of SLO. You can probably find a 2-3bdr. house between $1200-1600 a month and you can find smaller places for less. Affording to RENT here is not the issue, it's finding a job.

If you don't mind hotter summers, I'd suggest Atascadero. It's 1/2 hour to the beach.

[Clarks]

More ocean than beach

Can someone help me understand the meaning of this statement? Are there places with more beach than ocean?

[Charles]

Originally Posted by Clarks

Can someone help me understand the meaning of this statement? Are there places with more beach than ocean?

As the ocean approaches the speed of light it becomes longer than the beach.

[Clarks]

Thanks Charles, I was worried I was missing something.

[mrsltd]

Originally Posted by Clarks

Can someone help me understand the meaning of this statement? Are there places with more beach than ocean?

I think what is meant by "more ocean than beach" is that in a number of areas on the west coast there is little to no sand area between the ocean and "terra firma"....that is, parts of the California coast are ROCK....the waves break against rock, not sand.....