Just exactly how much is all of this good weather worth to someone? Thats the question.
You’ll never know until you leave and try the weather somewhere else, or if you’ve lived somewhere else before.
In my opinion, the weather is a huge factor and explains the general extra cost of real-estate in SoCal. It DOESN’T explain the insanity with current prices, but I do think that it’s part of the premium. In my experience, the prices in SoCal are around 50% higher than in Seattle, WA, regardless of the current state of affairs. When I moved here from Seattle, that was a premium I was willing to pay for an area in which I could actually *enjoy* the place more.
In Seattle, unless you’re really insane, you just don’t go mountain biking from November to May. Here in SD, you can pretty much go every day. In fact, I’ll be going in about 30 minutes! 🙂
