I just had to move somewhere that I could see trees and fish without having to drive 4 hours one way. But your right, housing is super cheap compared to Austin.
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!
It's all relative, isn't it? You make it sound like that's great. Well, it may be for there, but where I am a really nice 2 bedroom in a nice neighborhood will go for 450 to 500.
Would really appreciate your take on that aspect....it's been a few years since we scouted around up there, and things might have changed.
My two favorite Sierra destinations are Yosemite & Tahoe - go almost every year. Tahoe is better - the whole thing shoulda been a Nat'l Park, but the 49ers got their first and staked their lakeside claims after they got tired of mining.
Lucky you, DesignerChick. I'm having to move to the SF Bay Area in less than a month. I'd much prefer San Diego or anywhere in southern California. Hope to meet up with some Freepers while I'm out there, since I reckon there's only 1 conservative out of every 50 people in the SF Bay area.
Shhhhh... Don't tell them about the mountains. The prices are going up there, already. Mention the snow, all that snow. Yeah, yeah...and the narrow winding roads....and all that WINDERNESS, with aminals. You know, like bears 'n stuff. They won't like it. Whew....close call....uh, are they still reading?
San diego is gorgeous, LA is like a zoo (don't feed the animals).
I'd definitely choose SD if I could get a job that pays Boston salaries there.
Also, there are a lot of Sox fans there!
I love California.
Laguna Beach could certainly use "construction correction" , half of it went sliding down the hillside. They keep rebuilding on hillsides,fire prone and equake fault lines.
< In AutoCad, I hope... >
/rubs hands together/
Ummmm...can we get into an AutoCad/MicroStation debate, now?
How is Long Beach? The only reason I would live there, if it was very close to my work and I was poor. It is actually quite close to the bad areas of LA. The only thing going for it is it's harbor. It's glory days were probably about 100 years ago. (or maybe during WW II)
It can be bad out here, but I have some good conservative friends. What part of the Bay Area are planning to move to? You could look at the Bush/Kerry vote % by county to see which areas are more tolerable than others. I live in Santa Clara county and I think it was 65-35 for Kerry. San Fran was like 85-15.
I'm sure you've heard this already, but Los Angles is pretty blue, and San Diego is most definitely Red!
what's Austin,Texas have to offer? My other half wants to consider Texas- I don't know, I thought Texans didn't like California - or is that Oregon.
I just had to move somewhere that I could see trees and fish without having to drive 4 hours one way. But your right, housing is super cheap compared to Austin.
well, I thought I qualified that to say "newer immigrant groups" as in the Little Italy/Germantown types of communities aren't easily found i LA. Germantown in NYC is now Yuppieville, but Little Italy still thrives as far as I know, and then there's the Delancy Street orthodox Jewish area ... Hell's Kitchen is also now chic-ified, but lots of 2-3 generation Irish/Italians (many of whom intermarried) out in Rockaway. I really was looking at it from a culinary perspective .. like going to an ethnic neighborhood and finding the little dive that serves the BEST Italian food (now in Jersey City).
Stay away from the DUmmies in Malibu
Little Italy is now inhabited by yuppies and Chinese. Even many of the tourist oriented shops are owned by Asians. Delancy street is now filled with boutiques. There are practically no "old naybahhoods" left in NYC, or in Jersey City (my mom's hometown) or Newark (dad's hometown). You find some remnants of the Italian community in Bensonhurst Brooklyn, but its disappearing fast as the old people die off and are replaced by Chinese and Russians. The descendents of Polish, Italian, and Irish immigrants are now almost entirely in suburbia and are disappearing as distinct ethnic groups.
Not with me you won't.
I don't get to choose.
poor suckers
I have had the weird experience lately where premium is actually cheaper than regular. Weird and wild stuff.
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