[CAluvdubya]

I've lived in CA for most of my life. The exception being for few years in 78-84 . North County in San Duego is great but expensive (you can try Poway for cheaper areas) . I als like Placer County in the Sacramento area. When we lived ther is was still fairly conservative and is where Tom McClintock's district is.

Good luck. I hate to pile on but we are another family looing to get out of CA to retire. The taxes are going to kill you!

[dragnet2]

I hate to pile on but we are another family looing to get out of CA to retire. The taxes are going to kill you!

Taxes?

BTW, we have friends in the midwest who spend more on weather related issues/problems + taxes, then we pay in taxes here in CA.

The sky high cost of heating, cooling, heating oil, damage from weather, damage to health from cold, the older ya get the worse it becomes....Special tires for ice/snow, rot and corrosion to their home, cars etc, from weather, etc. They paid more from just one hail storm, then we paid in a year of taxes. And they still pay taxes on top of all this.