[quote=flyer]BG, when you’re ready, I’m sure opportunities will present themselves. Know you’ve probably thought of this also, but I’d definitely make sure you really want to give up San Diego before you make your final decision.
We’ve known quite a few people who left for “greener pastures,” and later wished they had their SAN home back, and I certainly wouldn’t want to see this happen to you.[/quote]
I have too, flyer, but the “greener pastures” were all out of state, namely TX, OK, AL, TN, MO.
They were all humid, bug-ridden pestholes, as spdrun would say :=]. That’s an apt description. These friends/ex-neighbors of mine thought they were really going to score with the large lot (even acreage) they were going to buy with the proceeds from the sale of their SoCal home. Two of them failed to take into account that it is actually an environmental liability to buy a property with your own private lake (pond) on your property in these locales because you will NEVER get rid of the flying, preying insects swarming all over your property and even deck/patio next to your home and make it impossible to go outside several months per year . . . even to chop down high reed and weeds with a sicle and run their riding lawnmowers without getting attacked by swarms of mosquitoes, chiggers, bees, wasps and locusts.
These nicely designed custom homes on 3-5 AC with a private “lake” (pond) looked so enticing and romantic on paper. The reality is a completely different story.
Every one of them came crawling back to SD to rent at an age where their earning power was little to zero. (Two of them were SD Natives.) I have lost touch will all of them and don’t know what has happened to any of them. I would surmise that most are living with their children now (or on their children’s land in a guest house).
This is why I am so adamant about NOT moving to an “environmental pesthole” in Norcal. They do exist in Lake County and along I-5 (which is too hot for me, anyway). Not all counties in CA are rated equal. Some have issues that I don’t want to be a part of.
