Move To SD (San Diego, Long Beach, Oceanside: apartment, living in, airport)

[BobMane]

Craigslist has so many scams hard to tell what average rate is for apartment in a good area (mainly good to me means away from pollution)...anyone know?

[moved]

Do you have a job lined up?

[kettlepot]

By pollution, do you mean air pollution? And by air pollution do you mean smog, or dust? Or do you mean water pollution? Trash pollution? Noise pollution? Smell pollution?

If you find a place away from pollution what kind of amenities do you expect?

You could pay anything from $1000 to $3000 a month depending on what you want. If you are prepared to go small and dumpy, you might even find some things in the $750 - 900 range.

[BobMane]

I am retired and have a small pension. Would like to be near the water. All pollution? I know good luck right? Mainly Air is what I am referring to. The most I could afford to be safe would be 1-1.5K month.

[oddstray]

Originally Posted by BobMane

I am retired and have a small pension. Would like to be near the water. All pollution? I know good luck right? Mainly Air is what I am referring to. The most I could afford to be safe would be 1-1.5K month.

Sorry. Near the water on that sort of budget is not happening in San Diego.

[Suburban_Guy]

If you look enough you'll find something in that range in somewhat decent areas.

One of my co-workers lives in Oceanside not on the coast but somewhat near, and pays like $1000 per month for a nice and spacy one bedroom apartment. He tells me it's pretty safe.

[BobMane]

Oceanside huh...nice thanks for the tip. I guess I would have to drive up and down the coast a bit to figure out where pollution is and is not. I lived in Hollywood in the 80s and the air was literally brown. More recently, I rented a Tesla to test it out. Just going from the airport (choke) to Long Beach (choke) was somewhat depressing. I have not been south of Long Beach down to SD extensively but when I have alot of it seemed nice.

[oddstray]

It's a long shot, but you might (after this pandemic is dealt with) consider living in Baja California.

[JohnAlt]

Originally Posted by moved

Do you have a job lined up?

Really?

[newgensandiego]

Originally Posted by BobMane

Oceanside huh...nice thanks for the tip. I guess I would have to drive up and down the coast a bit to figure out where pollution is and is not. I lived in Hollywood in the 80s and the air was literally brown. More recently, I rented a Tesla to test it out. Just going from the airport (choke) to Long Beach (choke) was somewhat depressing. I have not been south of Long Beach down to SD extensively but when I have alot of it seemed nice.

Got to love someone creating air pollution to determine whether they can deal with the air pollution.

You should research air pollution reports. I think that would be more helpful than doing these trips. You might just be visiting on a particularly good or bad day. Won't mean anything.