Addicted to San Diego and southern California weather
Thanks you folks are great! I am thinking of just renting here for the next year or so until I visit new places. I love San Diego in spite of 4 dollar gas and sky high prices! Mt. Helix is great and will have to check out the areas (Windsor Hills, Eastridge, Serramar) that you mention. Do you by chance have any links to builders or homes for sale in these areas?
One thing I have noticed in Point Loma: prices are dropping! I saw one place listed six months ago for 600k that now lists for 500k! So it is going to be a good time to buy in a couple years. I might just park my cash in CDs for now until the market bottoms out.
Rain sucks otherwise I would live in Washington state or Oregon- both places are gorgeous and friendly people and cheap but I am not a fan of 200 days per year of downpour. Humidity would be a pain but if it is only a few days per year than I can deal with it. Bugs- yuck! Not sure about massive roaches and bugs in Florida. Texas has chiggers nasty bugs that cause disease and sores.
The irony is that I grew up in New England and dealt ok with snow and cold as a kid but we moved to northern California when I was 12 and been in California since so the mediterranean climate has permanently affected me.
I do like Colorado but the cold and snow would be a pain to deal with.
Guess I would have to spend time in winter there on a project to see if I could hang with it. The hiking and outdoor sports would be great and tons of hot single women help.
Right now- besides California top picks to visit are Virginia Beach and Fort Collins, Colorado. If I can hang with cold then Fort Collins looks nice. Maybe a summer home? Rent a room in San Diego until prices drop and then have primary residence in Colorado or Virginia may work well. My parents already told me they would put a home on their land for me to crash at. Once thats ready I am thinking to spend winter their and maybe jet to a small home in Colorado or Virginia for spring and summer unless I go skiing in winter.
