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Might be, depending on how much you travel elsewhere regularly. Especially if you don't spend if you're usually spending time around the city during the day and use your place mostly as somewhere to sleep.
But that's more or less your mentality when you're a young renter. The game completely changes once you're talking about sinking a significant portion of your savings into a property. When you own a home, you won't use it simply as "somewhere to sleep." You get emotionally invested in it whether you love it or hate it.
I wouldn't buy a home, I'd live well below my means (if that means living in a measly 2-bedroom apartment and driving a hooptie, so be it) and hoard all of my money.
I wasn't thinking of wine country as much as places like Point Reyes, Marin Headlands, Mt. Tam and Mt. Diablo. I'm more into hiking and bicycling as an outdoor activity. The weather on the coast isn't good beach weather, but the Northeast isn't any better for most of the year.
I like cities, too but San Francisco is a very good city. If I'm already living there I wouldn't have much of a need to get and visit other cities.
For you then yes, the Bay Area is great for what you like. My idea of bicycling is a beach cruiser down along the beach or hiking from a tall cliff down to do the beach, haha. Mt Diablo is decent, too hot and dry in the summer though and apparently right now there are rattle snakes everywhere. Where I live in located at the base of it (Walnut Creek). Marin County is nice for nature, good forests and redwoods there.
SF is a great city but it's just so small imo, packs a lot into that small size but still.
SoCal's water temperatures are only good for swimming from about June to early Oct, even then sometimes it can be too cold as it can flucuate throughout summer, but that was enough for me. So I'd be happy with just a summer beach season on the east coast.
Now that's it's summer here in NorCal I'll probably start complaining more about the lack of swimmable beaches here as I really miss it, just a warning to everyone
If not, I'd choose San Francisco, because that's the only one of those cities without hot summers.
I'm always amazed by the number of people that feel this way. The perfect day to me is 87-91 degrees, clear blue skies, with 20-30% humidity. How can you enjoy a popsicle or water ice when it's only 65 degrees?
I'm always amazed by the number of people that feel this way. The perfect day to me is 87-91 degrees, clear blue skies, with 20-30% humidity. How can you enjoy a popsicle or water ice when it's only 65 degrees?
Or a nice pool party, the beach, or simply walking around in t-shirt, shorts, and flip flops without feeling cold.
SF clearly has very mild winters so you have to give it credit for that but I feel it misses out on the best season imo, summer. Many days can be very pleasant in SF but you never know when that weather will change, I've lost so many damn long sleeve t-shirts and sweatshirts because I would carry them around with me during the day for when it gets cold at night or if the fog rolls in. I hate that whole "dress in layers" crap.
But you can get that warm summer weather in other parts of the Bay Area.
I'm always amazed by the number of people that feel this way. The perfect day to me is 87-91 degrees, clear blue skies, with 20-30% humidity. How can you enjoy a popsicle or water ice when it's only 65 degrees?
To me, 65F is comfortably warm, certainly warm enough for ice cream, ice water, popsicles, etc. Although I'm not a big fan of ice cream of popsicles, anyway. Anything over 75 is generally too warm for me to be comfortable, and 85+ is pure misery for me.
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Or a nice pool party, the beach, or simply walking around in t-shirt, shorts, and flip flops without feeling cold.
I'm not interested in swimming, or pools, or shorts, or any of those things associated with hot weather. I don't even like wearing short sleeve shirts. I don't even like not wearing a jacket! My ideal temperature range is 40-55, maybe 60-65 for a warm day.
East Boston is littered with Houses, 3or 4 bedroom below 500,000, Near the Revere Border, you have the beach close by, a horse racing track, a blue line stop at you doorstep, and soon-to-be Casino.
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