This used to be my favorite pastime, defending temecula, but I can see my services are no longer needed, you guys are doing just fine. And the next time sdrealtor comes this way, I’m dragging him to doffo winery and after he realizes he was only drinking at the large touristy wineries, he is man enough to admit it and I will make him write about on the boards. But it is true, Sonoma and Napa weren’t much to write home about 40 years ago, their accolades and snootiness is a recent thing in the grand scheme of things. If you choose to ignore winemaking regions outside of the chosen ones, and if those regions don’t take notice, they will be overun, it’s happened before, ask the french.

Now about dorm rooms and college rentals, I’m totally against buying a college rental. I’m just going to suck it up and pay the bill because there is something about the experience that i enjoyed and there are too many variables at play. Plus the odds are fair that they end up joining a fraternity or sorority, as their parents and grandparents all did (sorry, it’s in our DNA, we are joiners) and then they will miss out on living in the fraternity/sorority house if I bought a place. Age 18-22 is no time to be practical and sensible, there’s plenty of time for that later.

I also read one of the college’s website that we are applying to an interesting fact, now that they have a surplus of dorms due to lower enrollment and they are not just for freshman like they were in my day. Of kids that stay in the dorms for two years, they have a 90% chance of making it to their junior year, those that stay one year have a 78% chance and those that live at home or in a rental,having never lived in the dorms, only a 58% chance. It helps to make some friends and the dorms kinda put you in a situation where you almost have to. I’m an odds guy, plus it includes food, it’s just freaking money and after this there will hopefully be some gravy years where everyone is off the dole and my balance sheet. Plus, it was so much fun that if they would take my money and let me live there, I’d do it again tomorrow, even though its creepy.