Why I am leaving San Diego

[jpinpb]

jstoesz – I’m feeling a little jealous. Sounds like a good, sound move. Getting out of the rat-race. Good for you and best of luck.

[sdrealtor]

Best of luck and I hope you find more peace and happiness in your new home. SoCal is a great place to live if you have the money to afford to live well here. If you dont its is wildly frustrating seeing this amazing life that is just out of reach.

Again best of luck and I hope it all goes well but with a SoCal wife you’ll be back soon enough.

[sdrealtor]

Best of luck and I hope you find more peace and happiness in your new home. SoCal is a great place to live if you have the money to afford to live well here. If you dont its is wildly frustrating seeing this amazing life that is just out of reach.

Again best of luck and I hope it all goes well but with a SoCal wife you’ll be back soon enough.

[sdrealtor]

Best of luck and I hope you find more peace and happiness in your new home. SoCal is a great place to live if you have the money to afford to live well here. If you dont its is wildly frustrating seeing this amazing life that is just out of reach.

Again best of luck and I hope it all goes well but with a SoCal wife you’ll be back soon enough.

[sdrealtor]

Best of luck and I hope you find more peace and happiness in your new home. SoCal is a great place to live if you have the money to afford to live well here. If you dont its is wildly frustrating seeing this amazing life that is just out of reach.

Again best of luck and I hope it all goes well but with a SoCal wife you’ll be back soon enough.

[sdrealtor]

Best of luck and I hope you find more peace and happiness in your new home. SoCal is a great place to live if you have the money to afford to live well here. If you dont its is wildly frustrating seeing this amazing life that is just out of reach.

Again best of luck and I hope it all goes well but with a SoCal wife you’ll be back soon enough.

[UCGal]

Good luck to you jstoesz.

I hear what you’re saying about the So. Cal materialism. You’re echoing what I said in 1990 when I left San Diego to Washington State. I decried the obsession with the “Three B’s”: Beachhouses, Blondes w/ Boobs, Beemers. If you didn’t have all three you were inadequate. I was single in my 20’s and would literally get asked, in clubs, “what do you drive”… like that mattered. (I had a very practical honda civic, lol.)

When I came back, more than a decade later, I was frustrated that housing had gone up so much that I would be house poor, despite now being married with 2 professional incomes. But – I didn’t care about the materialism anymore… Who cares of others obsess about the 3 b’s… live your life with your own values and let others chase the materialistic stuff.

I wish you and your family the best of luck in your new home. Having relocated to a different state several times, I know the challenges. I hope it is hassle free for you.

[UCGal]

Good luck to you jstoesz.

I hear what you’re saying about the So. Cal materialism. You’re echoing what I said in 1990 when I left San Diego to Washington State. I decried the obsession with the “Three B’s”: Beachhouses, Blondes w/ Boobs, Beemers. If you didn’t have all three you were inadequate. I was single in my 20’s and would literally get asked, in clubs, “what do you drive”… like that mattered. (I had a very practical honda civic, lol.)

When I came back, more than a decade later, I was frustrated that housing had gone up so much that I would be house poor, despite now being married with 2 professional incomes. But – I didn’t care about the materialism anymore… Who cares of others obsess about the 3 b’s… live your life with your own values and let others chase the materialistic stuff.

I wish you and your family the best of luck in your new home. Having relocated to a different state several times, I know the challenges. I hope it is hassle free for you.

[UCGal]

Good luck to you jstoesz.

I hear what you’re saying about the So. Cal materialism. You’re echoing what I said in 1990 when I left San Diego to Washington State. I decried the obsession with the “Three B’s”: Beachhouses, Blondes w/ Boobs, Beemers. If you didn’t have all three you were inadequate. I was single in my 20’s and would literally get asked, in clubs, “what do you drive”… like that mattered. (I had a very practical honda civic, lol.)

When I came back, more than a decade later, I was frustrated that housing had gone up so much that I would be house poor, despite now being married with 2 professional incomes. But – I didn’t care about the materialism anymore… Who cares of others obsess about the 3 b’s… live your life with your own values and let others chase the materialistic stuff.

I wish you and your family the best of luck in your new home. Having relocated to a different state several times, I know the challenges. I hope it is hassle free for you.

[UCGal]

Good luck to you jstoesz.

I hear what you’re saying about the So. Cal materialism. You’re echoing what I said in 1990 when I left San Diego to Washington State. I decried the obsession with the “Three B’s”: Beachhouses, Blondes w/ Boobs, Beemers. If you didn’t have all three you were inadequate. I was single in my 20’s and would literally get asked, in clubs, “what do you drive”… like that mattered. (I had a very practical honda civic, lol.)

When I came back, more than a decade later, I was frustrated that housing had gone up so much that I would be house poor, despite now being married with 2 professional incomes. But – I didn’t care about the materialism anymore… Who cares of others obsess about the 3 b’s… live your life with your own values and let others chase the materialistic stuff.

I wish you and your family the best of luck in your new home. Having relocated to a different state several times, I know the challenges. I hope it is hassle free for you.

[UCGal]

Good luck to you jstoesz.

I hear what you’re saying about the So. Cal materialism. You’re echoing what I said in 1990 when I left San Diego to Washington State. I decried the obsession with the “Three B’s”: Beachhouses, Blondes w/ Boobs, Beemers. If you didn’t have all three you were inadequate. I was single in my 20’s and would literally get asked, in clubs, “what do you drive”… like that mattered. (I had a very practical honda civic, lol.)

When I came back, more than a decade later, I was frustrated that housing had gone up so much that I would be house poor, despite now being married with 2 professional incomes. But – I didn’t care about the materialism anymore… Who cares of others obsess about the 3 b’s… live your life with your own values and let others chase the materialistic stuff.

I wish you and your family the best of luck in your new home. Having relocated to a different state several times, I know the challenges. I hope it is hassle free for you.

[jstoesz]

Thank you all for your kind words. You are good bunch…

bearishgirl, you asked why we do not stay up there.

Ultimately, the answer is because we do not have family up there. My wife’s and my family are both amazing, and we want involved Grandparents. But if I were master of the universe we would move the whole lot to lake tahoe (or SLO) and I would only be cognizant of my after tax income. But sadly I am not master of the universe.

So when it comes to to really settling and putting down deep roots, SD (because we hate OC even more) or Minneapolis are our only really viable choices.

To the materialism thing. I think their is a big difference with MN’s and the cabins, and CA and their houses and cars and boats and clothes.

You have a hard time finding a new BMW or Mercedes in MN, even people who can afford them are embarrassed by their money and are not in a hurry to flaunt it. Not that there is anything wrong with either car (not my thing, but in MN it is a source of embarrassment). I remember in school we would call kids who were higher in the socio-economic ladder “rich” and they would vehemently deny it. There was no, my dad makes more than your dad shenanigans.

Cabins are something families have and are passed down from generations. Most of my friends had cabins that their grandparents gave them. As long as you pay the taxes your family keeps the cabin.

I agree with you all about letting the materialism roll off your back, it doesn’t bother me much. I drive a beat honda and wear clothes till they have holes. It can get in my wife head from time to time, and I am terrified of what it could do to a child.

[jstoesz]

Thank you all for your kind words. You are good bunch…

bearishgirl, you asked why we do not stay up there.

Ultimately, the answer is because we do not have family up there. My wife’s and my family are both amazing, and we want involved Grandparents. But if I were master of the universe we would move the whole lot to lake tahoe (or SLO) and I would only be cognizant of my after tax income. But sadly I am not master of the universe.

So when it comes to to really settling and putting down deep roots, SD (because we hate OC even more) or Minneapolis are our only really viable choices.

To the materialism thing. I think their is a big difference with MN’s and the cabins, and CA and their houses and cars and boats and clothes.

You have a hard time finding a new BMW or Mercedes in MN, even people who can afford them are embarrassed by their money and are not in a hurry to flaunt it. Not that there is anything wrong with either car (not my thing, but in MN it is a source of embarrassment). I remember in school we would call kids who were higher in the socio-economic ladder “rich” and they would vehemently deny it. There was no, my dad makes more than your dad shenanigans.

Cabins are something families have and are passed down from generations. Most of my friends had cabins that their grandparents gave them. As long as you pay the taxes your family keeps the cabin.

I agree with you all about letting the materialism roll off your back, it doesn’t bother me much. I drive a beat honda and wear clothes till they have holes. It can get in my wife head from time to time, and I am terrified of what it could do to a child.

[jstoesz]

Thank you all for your kind words. You are good bunch…

bearishgirl, you asked why we do not stay up there.

Ultimately, the answer is because we do not have family up there. My wife’s and my family are both amazing, and we want involved Grandparents. But if I were master of the universe we would move the whole lot to lake tahoe (or SLO) and I would only be cognizant of my after tax income. But sadly I am not master of the universe.

So when it comes to to really settling and putting down deep roots, SD (because we hate OC even more) or Minneapolis are our only really viable choices.

To the materialism thing. I think their is a big difference with MN’s and the cabins, and CA and their houses and cars and boats and clothes.

You have a hard time finding a new BMW or Mercedes in MN, even people who can afford them are embarrassed by their money and are not in a hurry to flaunt it. Not that there is anything wrong with either car (not my thing, but in MN it is a source of embarrassment). I remember in school we would call kids who were higher in the socio-economic ladder “rich” and they would vehemently deny it. There was no, my dad makes more than your dad shenanigans.

Cabins are something families have and are passed down from generations. Most of my friends had cabins that their grandparents gave them. As long as you pay the taxes your family keeps the cabin.

I agree with you all about letting the materialism roll off your back, it doesn’t bother me much. I drive a beat honda and wear clothes till they have holes. It can get in my wife head from time to time, and I am terrified of what it could do to a child.

[jstoesz]

Thank you all for your kind words. You are good bunch…

bearishgirl, you asked why we do not stay up there.

Ultimately, the answer is because we do not have family up there. My wife’s and my family are both amazing, and we want involved Grandparents. But if I were master of the universe we would move the whole lot to lake tahoe (or SLO) and I would only be cognizant of my after tax income. But sadly I am not master of the universe.

So when it comes to to really settling and putting down deep roots, SD (because we hate OC even more) or Minneapolis are our only really viable choices.

To the materialism thing. I think their is a big difference with MN’s and the cabins, and CA and their houses and cars and boats and clothes.

You have a hard time finding a new BMW or Mercedes in MN, even people who can afford them are embarrassed by their money and are not in a hurry to flaunt it. Not that there is anything wrong with either car (not my thing, but in MN it is a source of embarrassment). I remember in school we would call kids who were higher in the socio-economic ladder “rich” and they would vehemently deny it. There was no, my dad makes more than your dad shenanigans.

Cabins are something families have and are passed down from generations. Most of my friends had cabins that their grandparents gave them. As long as you pay the taxes your family keeps the cabin.

I agree with you all about letting the materialism roll off your back, it doesn’t bother me much. I drive a beat honda and wear clothes till they have holes. It can get in my wife head from time to time, and I am terrified of what it could do to a child.

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