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[quote=bearishgurl]

There aren’t any alpine lake-view cabins or even lake cabins (I wouldn’t call “Big Bear” necessarily “alpine”) any closer than seven hours from SD.[/quote]

Shoot, BG, Big Bear Lake is, if anything, a few hundred feet higher than Lake Tahoe (6700 to 6200) — talkin’ lake level. And when you count just South Lake Tahoe, both don’t exactly have sterling reps for overall class of peeps.

In the case of Palomar, it is a haven for people on two-wheel rockets who like to show off how close their knees get to the ground. As the map shows, that street is right off S7, on the way to the state park. I’m not sure which location on the mountain is best for, say, privacy. I reckon some property owners have to deal with trespassing snowplayers. Maybe off the east grade a ways is best for that, or a ways off any main road.

[NotCranky]

Mydogsarelazy, I was half kidding, you make good points too. I just looked at some houses online and it is not exactly cheap so it must be pretty nice. For comparision, the 40 acre lot next to me,45 minutes from Lindberg, just sold for under $300K. It has huge views up to the mountains and down to the city through the I-8 corridor past Point Loma and the ocean.Sometimes you can see to San Clemente Island. It isn’t a mixed use community though it is a rural suburb at least 15 minutes to the nearest business. The air quality is probably not great.

[NotCranky]

Mydogsarelazy, I was half kidding, you make good points too. I just looked at some houses online and it is not exactly cheap so it must be pretty nice. For comparision, the 40 acre lot next to me,45 minutes from Lindberg, just sold for under $300K. It has huge views up to the mountains and down to the city through the I-8 corridor past Point Loma and the ocean.Sometimes you can see to San Clemente Island. It isn’t a mixed use community though it is a rural suburb at least 15 minutes to the nearest business. The air quality is probably not great.

[NotCranky]

Mydogsarelazy, I was half kidding, you make good points too. I just looked at some houses online and it is not exactly cheap so it must be pretty nice. For comparision, the 40 acre lot next to me,45 minutes from Lindberg, just sold for under $300K. It has huge views up to the mountains and down to the city through the I-8 corridor past Point Loma and the ocean.Sometimes you can see to San Clemente Island. It isn’t a mixed use community though it is a rural suburb at least 15 minutes to the nearest business. The air quality is probably not great.

[NotCranky]

Mydogsarelazy, I was half kidding, you make good points too. I just looked at some houses online and it is not exactly cheap so it must be pretty nice. For comparision, the 40 acre lot next to me,45 minutes from Lindberg, just sold for under $300K. It has huge views up to the mountains and down to the city through the I-8 corridor past Point Loma and the ocean.Sometimes you can see to San Clemente Island. It isn’t a mixed use community though it is a rural suburb at least 15 minutes to the nearest business. The air quality is probably not great.

[NotCranky]

Mydogsarelazy, I was half kidding, you make good points too. I just looked at some houses online and it is not exactly cheap so it must be pretty nice. For comparision, the 40 acre lot next to me,45 minutes from Lindberg, just sold for under $300K. It has huge views up to the mountains and down to the city through the I-8 corridor past Point Loma and the ocean.Sometimes you can see to San Clemente Island. It isn’t a mixed use community though it is a rural suburb at least 15 minutes to the nearest business. The air quality is probably not great.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=smshorttimer][quote=bearishgurl]There aren’t any alpine lake-view cabins or even lake cabins (I wouldn’t call “Big Bear” necessarily “alpine”) any closer than seven hours from SD.[/quote]

. . . Shoot, BG, Big Bear Lake is, if anything, a few hundred feet higher than Lake Tahoe (6700 to 6200) — talkin’ lake level. And when you count just South Lake Tahoe, both don’t exactly have sterling reps for overall class of peeps.[/quote]

smshortimer, I’ve stayed overnight in Big Bear a few times, both in motels and private homes. Disregarding “elevation,” it is not where I’d want to live, even part time. The skiing is periodically warm and slushy and it tends to be a short season, dependent on snow-making. In the afternoons, it’s often like skiing on cardboard. The ski resorts are small and without the level of challenge. That’s not to say that Tahoe resorts couldn’t and hasn’t had short seasons in the past. But Big Bear is situated directly over the high desert and warmer than Tahoe. The breezes blowing through there are warm, even in winter. There are less pines and BB Lake doesn’t have near as much to offer as Lake Tahoe. BB doesn’t have the housing types or even the sheer amount of vacation rentals on offer as does Lake Tahoe. I don’t care about the gambling peeps at Tahoe. I don’t gamble. I want to live near world class skiing at Heavenly w/o paying the exorbitant lodging fees and taxes just to ski. I want to buy a season pass year after year for me and my family members and have a place big enough for us all to stay and walk to bus/lifts. It’s nice to have the beautiful indoor and outdoor concert venues there. I like its conveniences, the free bus line, the plowed roads, the beautiful overlooks and monuments around the lake, the neighborhoods on sewer, a Safeway, branches of major banks, etc.

I don’t want to be situated in as small of a community as BB when I retire. There’s not enough there for me.

I’m not actually sure I would want to retire FT in Tahoe, hence my more urban county choices for retirement (<= 4 hrs. from Tahoe) with the idea of the Tahoe location for a "second-home" fixer that my family can eventually help me fix up, little by little as we stay there. There are lots of these properties currently available, many within two blocks of the free bus line. I don't like the desert at all. Even mountains over high desert is not an "Alpine" life to me. It doesn't "feel" the same and it isn't the same. Lake Tahoe is TOTALLY WORTH the additional 6-7 hr drive. TOTALLY. There's no comparison between the two places . . . at all. They're in completely different categories.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=smshorttimer][quote=bearishgurl]There aren’t any alpine lake-view cabins or even lake cabins (I wouldn’t call “Big Bear” necessarily “alpine”) any closer than seven hours from SD.[/quote]

. . . Shoot, BG, Big Bear Lake is, if anything, a few hundred feet higher than Lake Tahoe (6700 to 6200) — talkin’ lake level. And when you count just South Lake Tahoe, both don’t exactly have sterling reps for overall class of peeps.[/quote]

smshortimer, I’ve stayed overnight in Big Bear a few times, both in motels and private homes. Disregarding “elevation,” it is not where I’d want to live, even part time. The skiing is periodically warm and slushy and it tends to be a short season, dependent on snow-making. In the afternoons, it’s often like skiing on cardboard. The ski resorts are small and without the level of challenge. That’s not to say that Tahoe resorts couldn’t and hasn’t had short seasons in the past. But Big Bear is situated directly over the high desert and warmer than Tahoe. The breezes blowing through there are warm, even in winter. There are less pines and BB Lake doesn’t have near as much to offer as Lake Tahoe. BB doesn’t have the housing types or even the sheer amount of vacation rentals on offer as does Lake Tahoe. I don’t care about the gambling peeps at Tahoe. I don’t gamble. I want to live near world class skiing at Heavenly w/o paying the exorbitant lodging fees and taxes just to ski. I want to buy a season pass year after year for me and my family members and have a place big enough for us all to stay and walk to bus/lifts. It’s nice to have the beautiful indoor and outdoor concert venues there. I like its conveniences, the free bus line, the plowed roads, the beautiful overlooks and monuments around the lake, the neighborhoods on sewer, a Safeway, branches of major banks, etc.

I don’t want to be situated in as small of a community as BB when I retire. There’s not enough there for me.

I’m not actually sure I would want to retire FT in Tahoe, hence my more urban county choices for retirement (<= 4 hrs. from Tahoe) with the idea of the Tahoe location for a "second-home" fixer that my family can eventually help me fix up, little by little as we stay there. There are lots of these properties currently available, many within two blocks of the free bus line. I don't like the desert at all. Even mountains over high desert is not an "Alpine" life to me. It doesn't "feel" the same and it isn't the same. Lake Tahoe is TOTALLY WORTH the additional 6-7 hr drive. TOTALLY. There's no comparison between the two places . . . at all. They're in completely different categories.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=smshorttimer][quote=bearishgurl]There aren’t any alpine lake-view cabins or even lake cabins (I wouldn’t call “Big Bear” necessarily “alpine”) any closer than seven hours from SD.[/quote]

. . . Shoot, BG, Big Bear Lake is, if anything, a few hundred feet higher than Lake Tahoe (6700 to 6200) — talkin’ lake level. And when you count just South Lake Tahoe, both don’t exactly have sterling reps for overall class of peeps.[/quote]

smshortimer, I’ve stayed overnight in Big Bear a few times, both in motels and private homes. Disregarding “elevation,” it is not where I’d want to live, even part time. The skiing is periodically warm and slushy and it tends to be a short season, dependent on snow-making. In the afternoons, it’s often like skiing on cardboard. The ski resorts are small and without the level of challenge. That’s not to say that Tahoe resorts couldn’t and hasn’t had short seasons in the past. But Big Bear is situated directly over the high desert and warmer than Tahoe. The breezes blowing through there are warm, even in winter. There are less pines and BB Lake doesn’t have near as much to offer as Lake Tahoe. BB doesn’t have the housing types or even the sheer amount of vacation rentals on offer as does Lake Tahoe. I don’t care about the gambling peeps at Tahoe. I don’t gamble. I want to live near world class skiing at Heavenly w/o paying the exorbitant lodging fees and taxes just to ski. I want to buy a season pass year after year for me and my family members and have a place big enough for us all to stay and walk to bus/lifts. It’s nice to have the beautiful indoor and outdoor concert venues there. I like its conveniences, the free bus line, the plowed roads, the beautiful overlooks and monuments around the lake, the neighborhoods on sewer, a Safeway, branches of major banks, etc.

I don’t want to be situated in as small of a community as BB when I retire. There’s not enough there for me.

I’m not actually sure I would want to retire FT in Tahoe, hence my more urban county choices for retirement (<= 4 hrs. from Tahoe) with the idea of the Tahoe location for a "second-home" fixer that my family can eventually help me fix up, little by little as we stay there. There are lots of these properties currently available, many within two blocks of the free bus line. I don't like the desert at all. Even mountains over high desert is not an "Alpine" life to me. It doesn't "feel" the same and it isn't the same. Lake Tahoe is TOTALLY WORTH the additional 6-7 hr drive. TOTALLY. There's no comparison between the two places . . . at all. They're in completely different categories.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=smshorttimer][quote=bearishgurl]There aren’t any alpine lake-view cabins or even lake cabins (I wouldn’t call “Big Bear” necessarily “alpine”) any closer than seven hours from SD.[/quote]

. . . Shoot, BG, Big Bear Lake is, if anything, a few hundred feet higher than Lake Tahoe (6700 to 6200) — talkin’ lake level. And when you count just South Lake Tahoe, both don’t exactly have sterling reps for overall class of peeps.[/quote]

smshortimer, I’ve stayed overnight in Big Bear a few times, both in motels and private homes. Disregarding “elevation,” it is not where I’d want to live, even part time. The skiing is periodically warm and slushy and it tends to be a short season, dependent on snow-making. In the afternoons, it’s often like skiing on cardboard. The ski resorts are small and without the level of challenge. That’s not to say that Tahoe resorts couldn’t and hasn’t had short seasons in the past. But Big Bear is situated directly over the high desert and warmer than Tahoe. The breezes blowing through there are warm, even in winter. There are less pines and BB Lake doesn’t have near as much to offer as Lake Tahoe. BB doesn’t have the housing types or even the sheer amount of vacation rentals on offer as does Lake Tahoe. I don’t care about the gambling peeps at Tahoe. I don’t gamble. I want to live near world class skiing at Heavenly w/o paying the exorbitant lodging fees and taxes just to ski. I want to buy a season pass year after year for me and my family members and have a place big enough for us all to stay and walk to bus/lifts. It’s nice to have the beautiful indoor and outdoor concert venues there. I like its conveniences, the free bus line, the plowed roads, the beautiful overlooks and monuments around the lake, the neighborhoods on sewer, a Safeway, branches of major banks, etc.

I don’t want to be situated in as small of a community as BB when I retire. There’s not enough there for me.

I’m not actually sure I would want to retire FT in Tahoe, hence my more urban county choices for retirement (<= 4 hrs. from Tahoe) with the idea of the Tahoe location for a "second-home" fixer that my family can eventually help me fix up, little by little as we stay there. There are lots of these properties currently available, many within two blocks of the free bus line. I don't like the desert at all. Even mountains over high desert is not an "Alpine" life to me. It doesn't "feel" the same and it isn't the same. Lake Tahoe is TOTALLY WORTH the additional 6-7 hr drive. TOTALLY. There's no comparison between the two places . . . at all. They're in completely different categories.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=smshorttimer][quote=bearishgurl]There aren’t any alpine lake-view cabins or even lake cabins (I wouldn’t call “Big Bear” necessarily “alpine”) any closer than seven hours from SD.[/quote]

. . . Shoot, BG, Big Bear Lake is, if anything, a few hundred feet higher than Lake Tahoe (6700 to 6200) — talkin’ lake level. And when you count just South Lake Tahoe, both don’t exactly have sterling reps for overall class of peeps.[/quote]

smshortimer, I’ve stayed overnight in Big Bear a few times, both in motels and private homes. Disregarding “elevation,” it is not where I’d want to live, even part time. The skiing is periodically warm and slushy and it tends to be a short season, dependent on snow-making. In the afternoons, it’s often like skiing on cardboard. The ski resorts are small and without the level of challenge. That’s not to say that Tahoe resorts couldn’t and hasn’t had short seasons in the past. But Big Bear is situated directly over the high desert and warmer than Tahoe. The breezes blowing through there are warm, even in winter. There are less pines and BB Lake doesn’t have near as much to offer as Lake Tahoe. BB doesn’t have the housing types or even the sheer amount of vacation rentals on offer as does Lake Tahoe. I don’t care about the gambling peeps at Tahoe. I don’t gamble. I want to live near world class skiing at Heavenly w/o paying the exorbitant lodging fees and taxes just to ski. I want to buy a season pass year after year for me and my family members and have a place big enough for us all to stay and walk to bus/lifts. It’s nice to have the beautiful indoor and outdoor concert venues there. I like its conveniences, the free bus line, the plowed roads, the beautiful overlooks and monuments around the lake, the neighborhoods on sewer, a Safeway, branches of major banks, etc.

I don’t want to be situated in as small of a community as BB when I retire. There’s not enough there for me.

I’m not actually sure I would want to retire FT in Tahoe, hence my more urban county choices for retirement (<= 4 hrs. from Tahoe) with the idea of the Tahoe location for a "second-home" fixer that my family can eventually help me fix up, little by little as we stay there. There are lots of these properties currently available, many within two blocks of the free bus line. I don't like the desert at all. Even mountains over high desert is not an "Alpine" life to me. It doesn't "feel" the same and it isn't the same. Lake Tahoe is TOTALLY WORTH the additional 6-7 hr drive. TOTALLY. There's no comparison between the two places . . . at all. They're in completely different categories.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=Bubblesitter]Interesting architects….on the upscale side

http://johnstonarchitects.com/single.html%5B/quote%5D

Bubblesitter, the work of your (expensive) Seattle architect got me looking again last night into some of my “choice” retirement havens and I found a listing featured in Sunset Mag nearly 40 years ago that is “totally me.”

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/689-Edgewood-Ave_Mill-Valley_CA_94941_1121893557

Ironically, over 32 years ago, I stayed in the loft of 3-story cedar home very close to this property for a few days. I’ve only visited Muir Woods/Beach and Stinson Beach once since then. Not only do these beaches bring back many memories of childhood day trips for me, the beauty and ambiance of this spectacular coastline (all the way to Eureka, but ESP. HERE), is unmatched in this state, IMO. Mendocino Coast comes in a close second, Monterrey/Pebble Beach third, the OC 4th and LJ Shores 5th. I can feel the cool breeze just gazing at the photos of the listing shown below. Love the WHOLE area!

Here’s an (expensive) property of mid-century design with an unmatched view further up the coast in Mendocino County. Enjoy!

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail-alt/14260-Headlands-Point-Way_Mendocino_CA_95460_M29303-77538

Guess these two properties don’t qualify as “mtn cabins” but IMHO, they’re even better, what with the “woods and beach” all in the same place . . . . lol!

[bearishgurl]

[quote=Bubblesitter]Interesting architects….on the upscale side

http://johnstonarchitects.com/single.html%5B/quote%5D

Bubblesitter, the work of your (expensive) Seattle architect got me looking again last night into some of my “choice” retirement havens and I found a listing featured in Sunset Mag nearly 40 years ago that is “totally me.”

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/689-Edgewood-Ave_Mill-Valley_CA_94941_1121893557

Ironically, over 32 years ago, I stayed in the loft of 3-story cedar home very close to this property for a few days. I’ve only visited Muir Woods/Beach and Stinson Beach once since then. Not only do these beaches bring back many memories of childhood day trips for me, the beauty and ambiance of this spectacular coastline (all the way to Eureka, but ESP. HERE), is unmatched in this state, IMO. Mendocino Coast comes in a close second, Monterrey/Pebble Beach third, the OC 4th and LJ Shores 5th. I can feel the cool breeze just gazing at the photos of the listing shown below. Love the WHOLE area!

Here’s an (expensive) property of mid-century design with an unmatched view further up the coast in Mendocino County. Enjoy!

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail-alt/14260-Headlands-Point-Way_Mendocino_CA_95460_M29303-77538

Guess these two properties don’t qualify as “mtn cabins” but IMHO, they’re even better, what with the “woods and beach” all in the same place . . . . lol!

[bearishgurl]

[quote=Bubblesitter]Interesting architects….on the upscale side

http://johnstonarchitects.com/single.html%5B/quote%5D

Bubblesitter, the work of your (expensive) Seattle architect got me looking again last night into some of my “choice” retirement havens and I found a listing featured in Sunset Mag nearly 40 years ago that is “totally me.”

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/689-Edgewood-Ave_Mill-Valley_CA_94941_1121893557

Ironically, over 32 years ago, I stayed in the loft of 3-story cedar home very close to this property for a few days. I’ve only visited Muir Woods/Beach and Stinson Beach once since then. Not only do these beaches bring back many memories of childhood day trips for me, the beauty and ambiance of this spectacular coastline (all the way to Eureka, but ESP. HERE), is unmatched in this state, IMO. Mendocino Coast comes in a close second, Monterrey/Pebble Beach third, the OC 4th and LJ Shores 5th. I can feel the cool breeze just gazing at the photos of the listing shown below. Love the WHOLE area!

Here’s an (expensive) property of mid-century design with an unmatched view further up the coast in Mendocino County. Enjoy!

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail-alt/14260-Headlands-Point-Way_Mendocino_CA_95460_M29303-77538

Guess these two properties don’t qualify as “mtn cabins” but IMHO, they’re even better, what with the “woods and beach” all in the same place . . . . lol!

[bearishgurl]

[quote=Bubblesitter]Interesting architects….on the upscale side

http://johnstonarchitects.com/single.html%5B/quote%5D

Bubblesitter, the work of your (expensive) Seattle architect got me looking again last night into some of my “choice” retirement havens and I found a listing featured in Sunset Mag nearly 40 years ago that is “totally me.”

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/689-Edgewood-Ave_Mill-Valley_CA_94941_1121893557

Ironically, over 32 years ago, I stayed in the loft of 3-story cedar home very close to this property for a few days. I’ve only visited Muir Woods/Beach and Stinson Beach once since then. Not only do these beaches bring back many memories of childhood day trips for me, the beauty and ambiance of this spectacular coastline (all the way to Eureka, but ESP. HERE), is unmatched in this state, IMO. Mendocino Coast comes in a close second, Monterrey/Pebble Beach third, the OC 4th and LJ Shores 5th. I can feel the cool breeze just gazing at the photos of the listing shown below. Love the WHOLE area!

Here’s an (expensive) property of mid-century design with an unmatched view further up the coast in Mendocino County. Enjoy!

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail-alt/14260-Headlands-Point-Way_Mendocino_CA_95460_M29303-77538

Guess these two properties don’t qualify as “mtn cabins” but IMHO, they’re even better, what with the “woods and beach” all in the same place . . . . lol!

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