Posted on 08/03/2005 12:24:40 PM PDT by DesignerChick
I'm considering getting transfered from my job and moving to San Deigo or Los Angeles (where my company has offices.)
Any Freepers want to give a Jersey girl some advice?
I've never been to Ca. but I've had it with Jersey. I know there are at least five Conservatives in Califorina (thats three more than NJ)- help me out people!
Nude surfing kills the nads; the nudies stay at their end of the beach and the surfers stay at their's.
I hear Compton is very affordable.
50 miles East, your close to my sister.
We moved to the San Francisco area, and discovered that not only was there sticker shock ... there was upwardly climbing sticker shock! When my husband was offered a teaching job here, we looked at real estate web sites to see what prices were for housing in this area, and said okay, we can swing that much. What we thought of as a decent house was a little under $300K at that time. By the time we moved here several months later, the same houses were about $350K. By the time we *bought* a house, a year after moving here, the same houses were up to about $400K. Now, 3 years after moving here, those houses are around $525K. You see where I am going with this ....
So before making the decision, talk to a real estate pro who is in the area you want to move to, and find out how fast housing prices are moving up. You may be able to afford a house *now* ... but can you afford one six months or a year from now, after you have moved out here and had time to scope out all the neighborhoods? Maybe not.
If your company has offices in Texas, you might consider going there. True, it's hot there in the summer, but prices are reasonable and so are the people (unless you say something bad about Texas! LOL!). Anyway, that's what air conditioning is for.
For starters, it's important to pick correctly which side of the freeway you wish to live on. The last time I was there I asked my uncle how to get to a certain place on the opposite side of the freeway from where he lived. His reply: You have to be born there! Traffic was that bad twenty-five years ago.
Study this website http://www.consrv.ca.gov/index/Earthquakes/qh_earthquakes_what.htm
Instructions - What to do during an earthquake
1. If you are indoors, duck or drop down to the floor. Take cover under a sturdy desk, table or other furniture. Hold on to it and be prepared to move with it. Hold the position until the ground stops shaking and it is safe to move. Stay clear of windows, fireplaces, woodstoves, and heavy furniture or appliances that may fall over. Stay inside to avoid being injured by falling glass or building parts. If you are in a crowded area, take cover where you are. Stay calm and encourage others to do likewise.
2. If you are outside, get into the open, away from buildings and power lines.
3. If you are driving, stop if it is safe, but stay inside your car. Stay away from bridges, overpasses and tunnels. Move your car as far out of the normal traffic pattern as possible. If possible, avoid stopping under trees, light posts, power lines, or signs.
4. If you are in a mountainous area, or near unstable slopes or cliffs, be alert for falling rock and other debris that could be loosened by the earthquake.
5. If you are at the beach, move quickly to higher ground or several hundred yards inland.
Good luck in La-La Land.
Less than $2.00 ??? I paid $2.49 last weekend for the cheap stuff.
About how much are they?
Geez, I'd move somewhere in the "fly over" country. You couldn't pay me enough to move to Freakafornia. I like the idea of forgetting to lock my doors and coming home in a couple of days and my stuff is still there.
I'm not telling.
How well I know! I stayed in Cottage Inn by the Sea just a couple of weeks ago. It was a beautiful spot and I enjoyed every minute of it. It's a beautiful location.
I live in Boston, Just about as far away from SD as you can get. All this talk makes me want to move there. I mean Homes, Rent, Insurance, Taxes, Politics, Traffic, Gas Prices are pretty much just as bad here as there but here it's friggin cold 9 months a year. Just Maybe i'll go with you DesignerChick. :)
I heard it from a freind that it is really difficult to work unless you are involved somehow in the Morman church.
You mean to say Fresno is still in California.
Who would have thunk they would have stayed this long.
SDSU has surpassed Chico as the official "Party School"! :)
Yeah, but you live in the wrong place...grin. I'm in Virginny.
Yes, I am aware that Freerepublic is based in Fresno. I thought you were going to point out scenic spots in the city itself (although, as a computer guy, I appreciate a good server room). Before people get bent out of shape: my point earlier was not that Fresno is so much more horrible than other valley towns, but that if someone were visiting CA from elsewhere in the country and only saw Fresno, they would be left wondering what all of the fuss was about California.
OK I will throw I my 2 cents since I'm grew up in Belmar and spent the last 19 years in Tuckerton before moving to PA last year.
My company has it's HQ in LA and I have been there a few times before. In the winter when it's 10 degrees in Monmouth County, I have parked my car in a 4 foot snow drift and climbed aboard a jet and 5.5 hours later you need to be in an air conditioned car when you leave LAX. Walking through the hot spots at Redondo Beach in Feb. will make you nostalgic for Seaside or Point Pleasant Beach in August.It is nice but as many others have said, it's expensive and lots o traffic.
The people from my perspective are much more laid back that Jersey folk. If I were single, I would find the temptation to move there hard to resist, but I couldn't move my family out there.
PA, right next store to NJ has lots of advantages, except the weather isn't any better than NJ.
Tom
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