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Old 06-14-2007, 08:16 PM
 
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Wanttoteach, that's funny about people calling San Diego "unsafe"...sure, it has it's areas to avoid and car theft is HUGE there (be careful!), but San Diego seemed safe overall for me living there. Best of luck with your move. Fallbrook is pretty far out there in regard to San Diego County, but I'm sure you've considered that in regard to jobs, etc. Probably find cheaper real estate since it's so far from the coast. Probably too far away to sub with Chula Vista, etc. LookingtoLeave, I was able to line up a CHEAP living situation (at the time, it was like $350 or so a month!) for a run-down apartment in the Clairemont/Mission Bay area with a girl that needed a roommate when I was looking to move to SD. Friend of a friend of a friend of a friend kind of thing. Or God opening doors. Anyway, I was not crazy about the place, honestly, but it got me there. I ended up living there over a year before moving into a nice house rental in Point Loma and then renting from a friend's house, before getting married and moving into my husband's condo in Coronado. So, I was pretty fortunate to never pay more than $600 in rent per month before I got married! I know that that may not be the case for all moving to SD, but if it worked for me, and can hopefully work for you. Go for it! You'll love it out there.

Hi Jax,
God has defintely opened this door for us. After 18 months of prayer, He has finally answered. We didn't like the answer last August, but we listened and pulled our home off the market. In December we put it on again, and now He has decided that it is the right time. As for my job search, things aren't going that well. I didn't do that well in one of my interviews and so I won't be working there. I am just going to take it one day at a time, and I have learned that if the big guy upstairs doesn't want it, then it definitely won't happen-no matter how hard I try. What a great learning experience. Yes-not as many job opportunities near Fallbrook but that is the area that we fell in love with and it is certainly cheaper then a lot of the other areas. I would love to buy in Carlsbad or Solana Beach or Del Mar, but that certainly isn't going to happen for us any time soon! The worst that will happen is that we won't be able to buy and we will have to rent for a long time if I don't get a position, but I need to be humble and accept that lots of people rent. That is going to be hard for me, as I love painting and decorating...I will just have to focus on other things, like my scuba diving.
Jax-from your posts you seem like a very, kind encouraging person.
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Old 06-15-2007, 08:22 AM
 
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What is The Pump House Gang?
Tom Wolfe who also wrote Electic Cool-aid Acid Test and Bonfire of the Vanities penned the Pump House Gang with a few different story lines. One tangent involves a chaotic troop of surfers from La Jolla and chronicles some of their wild exploits/adventures circa 1965.


Cross reference:

Jack Macpherson
Mac Meda Destruction Company
Bob "Meda" Rakestraw
London's West End
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Old 06-15-2007, 08:27 AM
 
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Tom Wolfe who also wrote Electic Cool-aid Acid Test and Bonfire of the Vanities penned the Pump House Gang with a few different story lines. One tangent involves a chaotic troop of surfers from La Jolla and chronicles some of their wild exploits/adventures circa 1965.


Cross reference:

Jack Macpherson
Mac Meda Destruction Company
Bob "Meda" Rakestraw
London's West End
Cross reference: Bird Rock Bandits, Windandsea Surf Club, Windandsea Rats.

San Diego surfer Emery Kauanui dies tragically

site:www.signonsandiego.com Emery Kauanui - Google Search
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Old 06-15-2007, 11:22 AM
 
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Tom Wolfe who also wrote Electic Cool-aid Acid Test and Bonfire of the Vanities penned the Pump House Gang with a few different story lines. One tangent involves a chaotic troop of surfers from La Jolla and chronicles some of their wild exploits/adventures circa 1965.


Cross reference:

Jack Macpherson
Mac Meda Destruction Company
Bob "Meda" Rakestraw
London's West End

I wonder if they have it at Barnes and Nobles or Borders? I was going to go there today, so I will check it out. It sounds really good.
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Old 06-15-2007, 11:32 AM
 
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I wish it were me I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL...My sweetie pie wants to move to washington dc....job, politics and all....but when I look at that snow....I miss the beach too, and am familiar with ventura GOOD LUCK TO YOU, I LOVE SAN DIEGO AS WELL!
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Well, these boards have become quite the friend to me. So, here are the things I have done to move to San Diego...
1. Put my house on the market for 7 months last year and 6 months this year. I have spent hundreds of hours making this house clean. I have spent hundreds of hours at Starbucks waiting for the realtors to show my home.I have been utterly discouraged, even pulling my house off of the market last year.
2. Given up a secure teaching position
3. Sold my beautiful house
4. Left a wonderful family oriented community

I am 31 and my husband is 36. We don't have kids yet...only dogs. He just opened his commercial insurance business 2 years ago so he is not tied to Roseville yet. We figured that this was the perfect time to make this move. Over the past 5 years we have tried to move to Cancun, Hawaii, and other sunny places. We just aren't happy here. The winters are hard on me. I have that horrid Seasonal Affective Disorder where I get very sad all winter with the gloominess. We are scuba divers, and I am just dying to live by the beach again (I did as a child in Ventura). So...I have no job and no home (we will buy one if I get a job), but San Diego...here we come! I am freeeeeked out. I would love some encouragement please!
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Old 06-15-2007, 03:27 PM
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Wanttoteach, thanks for your kind words! (It takes one to know one, so I can tell you're a kind, encouraging person, too! ) Yes, God has a way of opening and shutting doors. That's so great that He has opened the door for you and your husband to move to the San Diego area! I definitely miss it, at times. God shut the door for me there with my teaching job in Chula Vista, and that "shut door" gave me the realization that maybe we should move to Florida. Now, not only do we have a home we enjoy, but we're expecting our first child and live closer to the future grandparents and aunt/uncle/cousins for our baby. Yet, in my heart I'd love to move back west someday. We'll see... I can totally feel your pain regarding hoping to get a teaching position. You never know, you may have more luck in the Fallbrook area than the districts that are saturated with applicants, like San Diego Unified and Chula Vista. Keep us posted on how the big move goes and best wishes!
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Old 06-15-2007, 04:35 PM
 
Location: Western NY
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Wanttoteach and Jax, I'm inspired by you. I live in an often overcast, often cold, dying city in the "rust belt" and I've wanted to live in SD or L.A. for a while. I guess my main fear is moving out there without having a job lined up first, even though I've saved enough money to support myself for a while. I don't know what I'm waiting for.

I tell myself that I have to take advantage of being single with no kids and take the chance!

Congratulations Wanttoteach! Jax, it's great that you took that risk.
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Old 06-15-2007, 05:47 PM
 
Location: Tennessee
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I was referred to this site by someone on another forum that I frequent. I am happy to hear that people have successfully made the transition to SD. It gives me a little bit of hope.
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Old 06-16-2007, 02:02 AM
 
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Well, these boards have become quite the friend to me. So, here are the things I have done to move to San Diego...
1. Put my house on the market for 7 months last year and 6 months this year. I have spent hundreds of hours making this house clean. I have spent hundreds of hours at Starbucks waiting for the realtors to show my home.I have been utterly discouraged, even pulling my house off of the market last year.
2. Given up a secure teaching position
3. Sold my beautiful house
4. Left a wonderful family oriented community

I am 31 and my husband is 36. We don't have kids yet...only dogs. He just opened his commercial insurance business 2 years ago so he is not tied to Roseville yet. We figured that this was the perfect time to make this move. Over the past 5 years we have tried to move to Cancun, Hawaii, and other sunny places. We just aren't happy here. The winters are hard on me. I have that horrid Seasonal Affective Disorder where I get very sad all winter with the gloominess. We are scuba divers, and I am just dying to live by the beach again (I did as a child in Ventura). So...I have no job and no home (we will buy one if I get a job), but San Diego...here we come! I am freeeeeked out. I would love some encouragement please!
I commend you. My wife and I did nearly exactly what you are in the midst of trying to do, except we both gave up our teaching jobs (combined 20 years), sold our house and moved to Asheville, NC...we got jobs there, already had bought a house that we began restoring, etc, moved our entire livfe and bleongings, huge dog and old classic car...loved Asheville, hated our jobs, quit, wished we had not given up our great jobs back in San Diego, wished that we had not sold our beautiful house that we would never be able to afford to buy back at the ridiculous rate that homes were climbing... so we sat in our 1/2 renovated 100 year old creaky house on the hill and huddled in for a cold winter.sigh

Luck had it that we got pregnant, jobless since we quit our Asheville jobs, and soon were to run out of money trying to sell an unfinished house... she moved back to SD, got a job, found us a house, I finished building our fixer, sold it, returned, got a teaching job and now we are back here in the heat and 1-1/2 seasons. I say 1-1/2 due to the fact that our orange trees don't put out yummy oranges for 1/2 of one of the 2 seasons that people around here recognize. Winter is really May and June here (you will learn that soon).

Be prepared to have a lot of people competing for teaching jobs. I applied to many public districts and every one of them reported that my application was being reviewed with 400-700 others each time. Be on top of your game is all I can say. Also, consider renting out your house instead of selling. see if you like it here enough. Though we are happy, love raising our baby, love my new job, we still dream that we could be raising him at our other SD house which we sold.
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Old 06-16-2007, 02:06 AM
 
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Finding a place to live would have been easy if we would be willing to lease. We also have dogs and that was difficult. We only found ONE person that was willing to go month to month. We wanted month to month because if I get a job then we want to buy. If not (and it is looking that way) then we will have to rent for some time. We really had to sell ourselves, but we found the greatest landlords. They are such nice people, and we are really looking forward to our new home. If you are willing to lease, you really shouldn't have any problem finding a place. The home is in Fallbrook in Rancho Viejo which sounds like a great little community for us. We go in a week, and I just can't believe it is actually happening!
Hey, my wife and I live in Fallbrook. It is hot. Last summer, when we moved here it was 116 that day and my wife was 8 months pregnant (no air conditioner at our house). We do love it here...very peaceful! Lots of space to breathe.
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