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Old 12-27-2007, 04:27 PM
 
Location: Southern California
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YES!
YES!
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If I could afford to buy a house where I grew up in San Diego I would! I miss the brightness of the sun and the warmth and barely any rain. I miss SD so much! SO MUCH
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Old 12-27-2007, 05:35 PM
 
Location: Socialist Republik of Amerika
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YES!
YES!
YES!
If I could afford to buy a house where I grew up in San Diego I would! I miss the brightness of the sun and the warmth and barely any rain. I miss SD so much! SO MUCH
San Diego has tons of work, why can't you afford to work and live there?

freedom
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Old 12-27-2007, 06:32 PM
 
Location: Twilight Zone
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To all you California people who moved to Oregon. How do you like Oregon and where did you move.

Would you come back to California if you could?
I moved from Sonoma County, California, to the Applegate Valley in 2003.

It was the worst decision we ever made. I moved to Texas last March.
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Old 12-27-2007, 06:47 PM
 
Location: Southern California
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I could find a job no problem but the medium house price is around $350,000. The mortgage, the utilities and having fun money would put me in debt. I tried to do it and grew tired of never being able to get ahead
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Old 12-28-2007, 09:22 AM
 
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San Diego has tons of work, why can't you afford to work and live there?

freedom
Alot of jobs pay little. You can work and barely make ends meet in San Diego on atleast $25,000/year. And with that sort of income, without roomates, you'll most likely end up in a bad neighborhood.

Just like small towns in Oregon and the "who you know" attitude when it comes to finding work, you won't get a good paying job in SD if you don't have some kind of degree.
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Old 12-28-2007, 06:18 PM
 
Location: Medford, Oregon aka Methford City
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I could find a job no problem but the medium house price is around $350,000. The mortgage, the utilities and having fun money would put me in debt. I tried to do it and grew tired of never being able to get ahead
Have you looked at temecula? It's not far from san diego, very sunny and growing at a rapid pace. As far as I know, it's cheaper to live too.
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Old 12-31-2007, 12:57 PM
 
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Have you looked at temecula? It's not far from san diego, very sunny and growing at a rapid pace. As far as I know, it's cheaper to live too.
Temecula weather only compares to far inland San Diego County. If you like coastal San Diego County weather, forget Temecula. Also, if you don't like LOADS of traffic on poor roads and unplanned growth you won't like Temecula.

We used to go wine tasting at the Temecula wineries...and stayed there overnight in our little travel trailer. There's a strange vibe I get from Temecula. However, I don't like crowds or traffic or hot weather... or strip malls, Hummers and other stupid status cars, people who throw trash out their car windows and drive too fast. So I pretty much dislike all of Southern California.
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Old 12-31-2007, 01:01 PM
 
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I left in 1990 and when I go back now I look at my friends and say "How can you stand it?" There's only one place that I would consider living and that's the mid-Coast area around Santa Barbara or San Luis Obispo. But then, we all know that you need Bill Gates' income to live there. You can keep California and the hell it is becoming.
I agree that Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties are probably the nicest areas of California...along with the Yosemite area. People who don't need yards, privacy, peace and quiet might be able to afford condos in those areas. There are plenty of people like that...I'm just not one of them.
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Old 01-03-2008, 01:04 PM
 
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I followed my family to the Portland metro. We came from the West Side of LA.

Do I like it? I actually don't mind the weather. I can't stand the "locals" who don't like us...I wish I knew people with the same zest for like and irreverent sense of humor one finds in Cali instead of these not-very-wordly flat-liners. Yech.

I would move back to select areas of California...but not the mess that is called Southern California (yeah, yeah, I know that certain communities within the megalopolis are actually wonderful, so I'm just ribbing). It's just that I think So. Cal. is a closed chapter in my life.
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Old 01-03-2008, 05:03 PM
 
Location: Twilight Zone
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I agree that Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties are probably the nicest areas of California...along with the Yosemite area. People who don't need yards, privacy, peace and quiet might be able to afford condos in those areas. There are plenty of people like that...I'm just not one of them.
Sonoma County is beautiful, and very artsy. There are tons of artists there and, it borders the ocean.
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