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I am strongly considering moving to Orange County from suburban North-East Ohio for family, fun, and company transfer.
My parents live in OC. But i was born in the Midwest and i have lived in Indiana, KY, and currently reside in Ohio.
Every time i visit, frequently; i find it difficult to head back to the same-ol same-ol drab and dreary Ohio.
I would like to see if any current or former California residents have any advice, insight, or information as to why or why not they would choose to move to CA if they had to do it over again. Or, why they might currently might want to leave?
Help a vitard out!!!
My parents live in OC. But i was born in the Midwest and i have lived in Indiana, KY, and currently reside in Ohio.
Every time i visit, frequently; i find it difficult to head back to the same-ol same-ol drab and dreary Ohio.
I would like to see if any current or former California residents have any advice, insight, or information as to why or why not they would choose to move to CA if they had to do it over again. Or, why they might currently might want to leave?
Help a vitard out!!!
Keep em coming! Help!
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Negative-
high cost of living (really high)
Traffic (at almost all times)
No moto within 45 min
Positive-
Great weather
Great food
Beautiful coastline
Majority of people are actually pleasant
Diversity in almost everything
Rut where are you living now. What part of NE Ohio?
If so, where is said job because that's going to determine where you want to land.
If you can choose any place to land I would recommend the Carlsbad area. It's North
San Diego County. It's spendy but worth it. As you get close to the coast you tend to
interact with a better class of people. also as you get close to the coast you get a
more temperment weather, not as hot in the summer and not as cold in the winter. This
could save you hundreds of dollars in AC cost in the summer.
Carlsbad, a place where there are more things to do than you could imagine.
All within an hours drive (if no traffic)
Scuba dive, surf, paddle board, road bike along the coast. beach cruiser casual around
the old beach community. Hang out at the beach, excellent food choices. Head inland to mountain
bike, hike,rock climb. Break out the motorcycle, within 1 1/2 hours drive, ride a different track every
week for couple of months and not the same place twice. Ride the desert, ride the mountains, some
go south of the border for even more diversity. Take flying lessons at Palomar, airplane or helicopter.
Great museums at Balboa Park to relax.
Did I mention the Women are like a gift from the gods in this part of the country. Anyone who has
the slightest appreciation of a beautiful woman cannot walk around without being impressed on a regular basis.
Along the coast more people tend to be in better physical condition and they just look so beautiful!
You could take up hang gliding, jetskiing, or just nothing.
If you're into beer, San Diego county has become the epicenter for the microbrewery industry.
If you're into fishing, excellent choices there also.
All this comes at a cost. You might find that the price to live here requires you to work so much that there is no
time for any of the above
TM
I moved to SD 5 years ago from upstate NY (10 min from Broome Tioga). Same time as Seth.
My only regret is that we didn't do this 10-15 years ago. I completely appreciate your comment about "drab and dreary". That describes where we lived perfectly. It described the neglect of infrastructure, career opportunities, weather, and general attitude of the people.
Costs are higher out here, but housing is really the only significant one for us. Car insurance, groceries, gas, utilities are almost the same, maybe 5% more than we were paying. And real estate taxes are so much less here than NY so the disparity in monthly housing cost isn't as big as one might think. Not sure about Ohio.
We moved with an almost 2 year old, now 6 and I couldn't be more excited about the opportunities that she has here (and experiences she's already had). There's so much for families, just depends on what you want to do. I got her started riding this past year and we spent many weekends in the desert having adventures and making memories, majorly looking forward to next season, but in the meantime we have so much other (productive) stuff to do.
I'm in a better situation by orders of magnitude than I was 6 years ago.
I would do it all over without a moment's hesitation.
Again, all depends on your point of reference and what your goals are.
I'm definitely with all of the positives.
The most negative right now is the housing issue.
126% higher than where im at now according to http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/cost-of-living/
The traffic is something else too; but 45 minutes to moto isnt bad at all to me. Glen Helen pretty much right at 50 minutes
Job is a standing offer within the same corporation i have worked for since college; for when the timing is right. There are a few locations actually. The more likely location for work would be tustin or pomona.
The whole thought of having so much to do within a relative short drive is whats so awesome to me. Im a skiier/boarder and the whole 5 hour drive to mammoth was nothing to me. The beach is maybe 20 minutes from where the rents live. I grew up driving 6 hours to see all of our closest family members. Along with racing on the weekends growing up has made me really not worried about driving a few hours. The micro climates are amazing to me. The inversion layer does seem to cool off everything west of the saddleback mountains and than you just drive to the ie to check out TLD, PC, calspeed @ Fontana, glen helen, etc, so on so forth; then you really start getting towards that desert heat haha!! I have a picture on my cell from last years MXGP at Glen Helen and it reads 116 degrees! Thats a personal reality check to me sometimes! The thing about CA is that you dont really have the humidity like i have back here!! I'd rather have the dry heat!!!
True statement that the cost of living may force you to not enjoy some perks of the state is a very legit point depending on your level of disposable income. Being 29 i'm not completely where i want to be but i do make ends meet. I'm not a Dr. or Attorney; i would need a pretty nice COLA to make it equivalent to my current standard of living here in OH
I was a legit skateboarder and grew up behind a boat wakeboarding, i know i can do it- but i still need to take some surf lessons so i can feel like i belong in a legendary surf city!!
Sounds like you have your stuff together. I'm currently very frustratingly single
My other extended family is all over indianapolis, IN. Thank God i have both sets of my grandparents in their 80's still around; but you can only see them so often you know. I don't have any siblings as my bro passed; and getting close to my parents and more so friends now would mean the world to me.
But it isnt the Beach Comber Cafe at Crystal Cove on the Pacific Coast Highway in Newport Beach good though!!
But then again, two different experiences that you cant really compare!!
Pit Row
Grew up in Garden Grove. Later when I had friends that could drive we spent a lot of
hours in the water just north of the pier at the cliffs.
When I was a kid, Beach Blvd would dead end at PCH, there was a little parking lot with
a small building for a concession stand that sold simple food and rented those blue rafts.
I think maybe it's changed since then. My goal in life was to have a car so I could drive
to the beach and go surfing. Oh how times have changed.
I grew up in Lake Forest/Mission Viejo from the late 70's to 5 years ago. I left because it got to be too much for me and my family. It's a great place to live, with a million things to do, which, is good and bad. I was down there over the 4th and noticed that they are really packing in the houses lately. They're closing Irvine Meadows, and still working on the Great Park.
MXER146 and GuyB will disagree with me but, I think a lot of the people down there are entitled and that started to wear on me. That's just my personal experience though, and that's not trying to dig on those guys.
Also, just noticed you're a skater...Etnies has a sweet skate park in Lake Forest. Lake Forest doesn't exactly give off the young and single vibe though.
Move. Lol. It'll work out for you. Just go.
Rut, you say you're 29, single and have a standing job offer? Why wouldn't you make the move? Do it before any of those three things go away.
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