$500k and 33years old, when is enough enough?

[jstoesz]

[quote=bearishgurl][quote=jstoesz][quote=bearishgurl][quote=jstoesz]Haha, I am sorry for the warrantless smear. Good, get after it. Because it is nuking out there. You better be heading for baldy at least. Mammoth should have a storm total better measured in building stories than feet.[/quote]

I’m holding out to go with a group to Heavenly in early 2011 :=D[/quote]

Coming up to my new stomping grounds I see! interesting, I wonder how that plays into the calculations! I am just kidding.[/quote]

South Tahoe became my one of my top retirement spots earlier in the year when I had to give up on (expensive) CO. I have to check on it at least once a year to make sure everything’s still in its rightful place :=] Do you realize Heavenly has made several improvements to their lifts/snowmaking equipment during summer 2010??[/quote]

If I were looking for a cheap CA retirement home, I would look for something off the 108. It doesn’t have all the drunken hubub, its way cheaper, and sonora is not far away.

[CA renter]

[quote=jpinpb][quote=Doooh]I’ve lived on the beach for a year, lived down town for 2, and put 5 years working in point Loma.

San Diego beaches stink, no really they stink. The musty smell hits you like a ton of bricks when entering homes 1-2 blocks from the surf.

9 months out of the year the water is too cold to go in or fish in. I put a GPS on my boat because well, “in San Diego you have to run a radar or GPS because of the fog layer”

If your not socked in fog in the AM you have the coastal layer to deal with most of he day. I think living on the beach is not the ideal, but only a pipe dream that folks make up in thief heads. The reality is colder days and cloudy days that block out the sun.

2-3 months in the summer is prime… If your parking spot doesn’t get stolen. Living on the SD beach was fun for 6 months until reality set in. Its not the tropical paradise that people make up in thier heads.[/quote]

Once again, I agree. Living inland can get real hot in the summer, but living along the coast can be dismal w/the marine layer. And agree WRT the water temperature. Heck, even the sand. You’d think the city would clean it for the tourists. Full of seaweed. I think that’s probably what you’re smelling. In addition to that, along w/my disenchantment w/PB (stated on another thread) you can smell the urine from the bums and maybe even the drunk people, too, who can’t bother to find a bathroom. (but I suppose that’s not limited to PB – also D/T).

I don’t want to complain. But anyone who says we have the greatest weather, they’re just not being honest w/themselves. And it seems that sometimes the justification for the high home prices comes down to weather.[/quote]

Totally agree with you guys, which is why we want to live further inland (at least 5 miles), if possible. The only problem for us is that the older, non-HOA homes are closer to the coast. There are very few of the old-school houses once you get outside of the fog belt.

[CA renter]

[quote=jpinpb][quote=Doooh]I’ve lived on the beach for a year, lived down town for 2, and put 5 years working in point Loma.

San Diego beaches stink, no really they stink. The musty smell hits you like a ton of bricks when entering homes 1-2 blocks from the surf.

9 months out of the year the water is too cold to go in or fish in. I put a GPS on my boat because well, “in San Diego you have to run a radar or GPS because of the fog layer”

If your not socked in fog in the AM you have the coastal layer to deal with most of he day. I think living on the beach is not the ideal, but only a pipe dream that folks make up in thief heads. The reality is colder days and cloudy days that block out the sun.

2-3 months in the summer is prime… If your parking spot doesn’t get stolen. Living on the SD beach was fun for 6 months until reality set in. Its not the tropical paradise that people make up in thier heads.[/quote]

Once again, I agree. Living inland can get real hot in the summer, but living along the coast can be dismal w/the marine layer. And agree WRT the water temperature. Heck, even the sand. You’d think the city would clean it for the tourists. Full of seaweed. I think that’s probably what you’re smelling. In addition to that, along w/my disenchantment w/PB (stated on another thread) you can smell the urine from the bums and maybe even the drunk people, too, who can’t bother to find a bathroom. (but I suppose that’s not limited to PB – also D/T).

I don’t want to complain. But anyone who says we have the greatest weather, they’re just not being honest w/themselves. And it seems that sometimes the justification for the high home prices comes down to weather.[/quote]

Totally agree with you guys, which is why we want to live further inland (at least 5 miles), if possible. The only problem for us is that the older, non-HOA homes are closer to the coast. There are very few of the old-school houses once you get outside of the fog belt.

[CA renter]

[quote=jpinpb][quote=Doooh]I’ve lived on the beach for a year, lived down town for 2, and put 5 years working in point Loma.

San Diego beaches stink, no really they stink. The musty smell hits you like a ton of bricks when entering homes 1-2 blocks from the surf.

9 months out of the year the water is too cold to go in or fish in. I put a GPS on my boat because well, “in San Diego you have to run a radar or GPS because of the fog layer”

If your not socked in fog in the AM you have the coastal layer to deal with most of he day. I think living on the beach is not the ideal, but only a pipe dream that folks make up in thief heads. The reality is colder days and cloudy days that block out the sun.

2-3 months in the summer is prime… If your parking spot doesn’t get stolen. Living on the SD beach was fun for 6 months until reality set in. Its not the tropical paradise that people make up in thier heads.[/quote]

Once again, I agree. Living inland can get real hot in the summer, but living along the coast can be dismal w/the marine layer. And agree WRT the water temperature. Heck, even the sand. You’d think the city would clean it for the tourists. Full of seaweed. I think that’s probably what you’re smelling. In addition to that, along w/my disenchantment w/PB (stated on another thread) you can smell the urine from the bums and maybe even the drunk people, too, who can’t bother to find a bathroom. (but I suppose that’s not limited to PB – also D/T).

I don’t want to complain. But anyone who says we have the greatest weather, they’re just not being honest w/themselves. And it seems that sometimes the justification for the high home prices comes down to weather.[/quote]

Totally agree with you guys, which is why we want to live further inland (at least 5 miles), if possible. The only problem for us is that the older, non-HOA homes are closer to the coast. There are very few of the old-school houses once you get outside of the fog belt.

[CA renter]

[quote=jpinpb][quote=Doooh]I’ve lived on the beach for a year, lived down town for 2, and put 5 years working in point Loma.

San Diego beaches stink, no really they stink. The musty smell hits you like a ton of bricks when entering homes 1-2 blocks from the surf.

9 months out of the year the water is too cold to go in or fish in. I put a GPS on my boat because well, “in San Diego you have to run a radar or GPS because of the fog layer”

If your not socked in fog in the AM you have the coastal layer to deal with most of he day. I think living on the beach is not the ideal, but only a pipe dream that folks make up in thief heads. The reality is colder days and cloudy days that block out the sun.

2-3 months in the summer is prime… If your parking spot doesn’t get stolen. Living on the SD beach was fun for 6 months until reality set in. Its not the tropical paradise that people make up in thier heads.[/quote]

Once again, I agree. Living inland can get real hot in the summer, but living along the coast can be dismal w/the marine layer. And agree WRT the water temperature. Heck, even the sand. You’d think the city would clean it for the tourists. Full of seaweed. I think that’s probably what you’re smelling. In addition to that, along w/my disenchantment w/PB (stated on another thread) you can smell the urine from the bums and maybe even the drunk people, too, who can’t bother to find a bathroom. (but I suppose that’s not limited to PB – also D/T).

I don’t want to complain. But anyone who says we have the greatest weather, they’re just not being honest w/themselves. And it seems that sometimes the justification for the high home prices comes down to weather.[/quote]

Totally agree with you guys, which is why we want to live further inland (at least 5 miles), if possible. The only problem for us is that the older, non-HOA homes are closer to the coast. There are very few of the old-school houses once you get outside of the fog belt.

[CA renter]

[quote=jpinpb][quote=Doooh]I’ve lived on the beach for a year, lived down town for 2, and put 5 years working in point Loma.

San Diego beaches stink, no really they stink. The musty smell hits you like a ton of bricks when entering homes 1-2 blocks from the surf.

9 months out of the year the water is too cold to go in or fish in. I put a GPS on my boat because well, “in San Diego you have to run a radar or GPS because of the fog layer”

If your not socked in fog in the AM you have the coastal layer to deal with most of he day. I think living on the beach is not the ideal, but only a pipe dream that folks make up in thief heads. The reality is colder days and cloudy days that block out the sun.

2-3 months in the summer is prime… If your parking spot doesn’t get stolen. Living on the SD beach was fun for 6 months until reality set in. Its not the tropical paradise that people make up in thier heads.[/quote]

Once again, I agree. Living inland can get real hot in the summer, but living along the coast can be dismal w/the marine layer. And agree WRT the water temperature. Heck, even the sand. You’d think the city would clean it for the tourists. Full of seaweed. I think that’s probably what you’re smelling. In addition to that, along w/my disenchantment w/PB (stated on another thread) you can smell the urine from the bums and maybe even the drunk people, too, who can’t bother to find a bathroom. (but I suppose that’s not limited to PB – also D/T).

I don’t want to complain. But anyone who says we have the greatest weather, they’re just not being honest w/themselves. And it seems that sometimes the justification for the high home prices comes down to weather.[/quote]

Totally agree with you guys, which is why we want to live further inland (at least 5 miles), if possible. The only problem for us is that the older, non-HOA homes are closer to the coast. There are very few of the old-school houses once you get outside of the fog belt.

[CA renter]

[quote=walterwhite]Banish Anxiety; Be Carefree

Live merrily, oh my friends, free from cares, perplexity, anguish, grief of mind, live merrily.

Marsilius Ficinus, quoted by Robert Burton in Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621

So, free yourself of care. To become cheerful and carefree is your revolutionary duty as a freedom-seeker. Stop working; stop buying; start living. Feast, drink. Eat capons and good hams. Drink spiced wines and fine ales. Make your table groan with food. Make jam and chutney. Play the hurdy-gurdy. Get a piano. I have just converted my home pub into a music room. We found an old honkytonk piano which was practically free. So now we can have sing-songs round the old Joanna. Just as your anxiety is a product of your imagination, albeit influenced by the commercial world, so your imagination has the power to replace it with good cheer.

Excerpted from THE FREEDOM MANIFESTO by Tom Hodgkinson Copyright 2006.[/quote]

Now that was a most excellent post, scaredy! Definitely need to get that book. 🙂

Of course, I am an anxious conspiracy theorist, so that might account for my liking the book. 😉

[CA renter]

[quote=walterwhite]Banish Anxiety; Be Carefree

Live merrily, oh my friends, free from cares, perplexity, anguish, grief of mind, live merrily.

Marsilius Ficinus, quoted by Robert Burton in Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621

So, free yourself of care. To become cheerful and carefree is your revolutionary duty as a freedom-seeker. Stop working; stop buying; start living. Feast, drink. Eat capons and good hams. Drink spiced wines and fine ales. Make your table groan with food. Make jam and chutney. Play the hurdy-gurdy. Get a piano. I have just converted my home pub into a music room. We found an old honkytonk piano which was practically free. So now we can have sing-songs round the old Joanna. Just as your anxiety is a product of your imagination, albeit influenced by the commercial world, so your imagination has the power to replace it with good cheer.

Excerpted from THE FREEDOM MANIFESTO by Tom Hodgkinson Copyright 2006.[/quote]

Now that was a most excellent post, scaredy! Definitely need to get that book. 🙂

Of course, I am an anxious conspiracy theorist, so that might account for my liking the book. 😉

[CA renter]

[quote=walterwhite]Banish Anxiety; Be Carefree

Live merrily, oh my friends, free from cares, perplexity, anguish, grief of mind, live merrily.

Marsilius Ficinus, quoted by Robert Burton in Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621

So, free yourself of care. To become cheerful and carefree is your revolutionary duty as a freedom-seeker. Stop working; stop buying; start living. Feast, drink. Eat capons and good hams. Drink spiced wines and fine ales. Make your table groan with food. Make jam and chutney. Play the hurdy-gurdy. Get a piano. I have just converted my home pub into a music room. We found an old honkytonk piano which was practically free. So now we can have sing-songs round the old Joanna. Just as your anxiety is a product of your imagination, albeit influenced by the commercial world, so your imagination has the power to replace it with good cheer.

Excerpted from THE FREEDOM MANIFESTO by Tom Hodgkinson Copyright 2006.[/quote]

Now that was a most excellent post, scaredy! Definitely need to get that book. 🙂

Of course, I am an anxious conspiracy theorist, so that might account for my liking the book. 😉

[CA renter]

[quote=walterwhite]Banish Anxiety; Be Carefree

Live merrily, oh my friends, free from cares, perplexity, anguish, grief of mind, live merrily.

Marsilius Ficinus, quoted by Robert Burton in Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621

So, free yourself of care. To become cheerful and carefree is your revolutionary duty as a freedom-seeker. Stop working; stop buying; start living. Feast, drink. Eat capons and good hams. Drink spiced wines and fine ales. Make your table groan with food. Make jam and chutney. Play the hurdy-gurdy. Get a piano. I have just converted my home pub into a music room. We found an old honkytonk piano which was practically free. So now we can have sing-songs round the old Joanna. Just as your anxiety is a product of your imagination, albeit influenced by the commercial world, so your imagination has the power to replace it with good cheer.

Excerpted from THE FREEDOM MANIFESTO by Tom Hodgkinson Copyright 2006.[/quote]

Now that was a most excellent post, scaredy! Definitely need to get that book. 🙂

Of course, I am an anxious conspiracy theorist, so that might account for my liking the book. 😉

[CA renter]

[quote=walterwhite]Banish Anxiety; Be Carefree

Live merrily, oh my friends, free from cares, perplexity, anguish, grief of mind, live merrily.

Marsilius Ficinus, quoted by Robert Burton in Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621

So, free yourself of care. To become cheerful and carefree is your revolutionary duty as a freedom-seeker. Stop working; stop buying; start living. Feast, drink. Eat capons and good hams. Drink spiced wines and fine ales. Make your table groan with food. Make jam and chutney. Play the hurdy-gurdy. Get a piano. I have just converted my home pub into a music room. We found an old honkytonk piano which was practically free. So now we can have sing-songs round the old Joanna. Just as your anxiety is a product of your imagination, albeit influenced by the commercial world, so your imagination has the power to replace it with good cheer.

Excerpted from THE FREEDOM MANIFESTO by Tom Hodgkinson Copyright 2006.[/quote]

Now that was a most excellent post, scaredy! Definitely need to get that book. 🙂

Of course, I am an anxious conspiracy theorist, so that might account for my liking the book. 😉

[CA renter]

[quote=jstoesz][quote=Rustico][quote=walterwhite]The greatest gift parents give is ignoring kids so they have room to grow. It’s all described in the freedom manifesto[/quote]
You should ignore your wife too…almost all the time. You are two different people and her needs or input do not count in your reality.[/quote]

Haha, are you married? I am afraid to ask if you are happily married…

That is not how my family works, but I guess I am a fairly newly wed man. But I subscribe to the philosophy…

“a happy wife is a happy life”

So far this has served me well, and hell it even rhymes, how could it be wrong?[/quote]

jstoesz,

You are very wise. Just keep it up, and you will live a long, happy life with your happy wife. 🙂

BTW, I think Rustico and scaredy were being sarcastic. Both seem to have very warm, wonderful marriages and happy kids.

[CA renter]

[quote=jstoesz][quote=Rustico][quote=walterwhite]The greatest gift parents give is ignoring kids so they have room to grow. It’s all described in the freedom manifesto[/quote]
You should ignore your wife too…almost all the time. You are two different people and her needs or input do not count in your reality.[/quote]

Haha, are you married? I am afraid to ask if you are happily married…

That is not how my family works, but I guess I am a fairly newly wed man. But I subscribe to the philosophy…

“a happy wife is a happy life”

So far this has served me well, and hell it even rhymes, how could it be wrong?[/quote]

jstoesz,

You are very wise. Just keep it up, and you will live a long, happy life with your happy wife. 🙂

BTW, I think Rustico and scaredy were being sarcastic. Both seem to have very warm, wonderful marriages and happy kids.

[CA renter]

[quote=jstoesz][quote=Rustico][quote=walterwhite]The greatest gift parents give is ignoring kids so they have room to grow. It’s all described in the freedom manifesto[/quote]
You should ignore your wife too…almost all the time. You are two different people and her needs or input do not count in your reality.[/quote]

Haha, are you married? I am afraid to ask if you are happily married…

That is not how my family works, but I guess I am a fairly newly wed man. But I subscribe to the philosophy…

“a happy wife is a happy life”

So far this has served me well, and hell it even rhymes, how could it be wrong?[/quote]

jstoesz,

You are very wise. Just keep it up, and you will live a long, happy life with your happy wife. 🙂

BTW, I think Rustico and scaredy were being sarcastic. Both seem to have very warm, wonderful marriages and happy kids.

[CA renter]

[quote=jstoesz][quote=Rustico][quote=walterwhite]The greatest gift parents give is ignoring kids so they have room to grow. It’s all described in the freedom manifesto[/quote]
You should ignore your wife too…almost all the time. You are two different people and her needs or input do not count in your reality.[/quote]

Haha, are you married? I am afraid to ask if you are happily married…

That is not how my family works, but I guess I am a fairly newly wed man. But I subscribe to the philosophy…

“a happy wife is a happy life”

So far this has served me well, and hell it even rhymes, how could it be wrong?[/quote]

jstoesz,

You are very wise. Just keep it up, and you will live a long, happy life with your happy wife. 🙂

BTW, I think Rustico and scaredy were being sarcastic. Both seem to have very warm, wonderful marriages and happy kids.

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