Thinking of moving to the S.W U.S., but where?

WeedFreak78

WeedFreak78

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I started asking about places to live in Cali in jibber jabber , so i figured I'd start a thread.
I'm sick of winters, no.... I'm FUCKING SICK OF WINTERS!:cuss::finger::cuss::finger: I think I've reached my breaking point, I fucked my back up last Sunday, the first time it snowed, only 4", took me almost 6 hours to do clean up, total bullshit. I've been in a depressed mood for weeks. I'm a miserable fucking prick once it gets cold out, a hermit from December till April, and I'm getting sick of living like this. I can't play with my cars when everything's covered in snow/ ice/ sand/ salt, I can't go fishing( ok I WON'T go fucking ice fishing..:roll:), hiking in the snow? Fuck that! I don't even want to hang outside around a bonfire in this weather anymore. My cars rusty away from the bottom because of road treatment. Commute times double because of flurries. Paying to just keep my house comfortable when it's 20 out for 2 months is getting too fucking expensive. I can't garden for almost half the year. Bitch, bitch, whine, whine... poor me.

In the last few weeks I've, randomly, heard a few people say to do what you want in life to be happy, then my best friend was asking why I stick around if I'm so miserable and everything kinda clicked, I need to go. I'm single, no kids, no financial responsibilities and have some savings. I'm currently unemployed and should be for the foreseeable future. Seems like the next year or so would be the best time to pull the trigger. I have a friend that wants to move back to Cali, so i might have a roommate already, makes things a little easier. I'm spitballing here. Things I want:

Number 1, obviously, no more winter. Occasional light snow is fine. I'd like to keep temps above 40, for the most part. Im thinking below the 38th parallel would work.

The less people the better, but I don't want to be hours drive from basic services (food, gas, hospitals, etc)

I'd like to be around, within an hour or so, good off roading/ OHV parks and racetracks (drag and autocross).

I need a garage, so I'd probably be looking to buy property, but that's not 100%. I could end up renting for awhile to get established.

Pot laws aren't a concern, unlike every other "I'm moving" thread..lol.

I'll add more ad I think of it.
 
curious2garden

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WeedFreak78 said:
I happened to see a decent house with 2 car garage in Desert Hot Springs that started this. There were sand dunes right out the back door, which I thought was cool. Is it really crowded everywhere out there, or is it just around the major cities? Population density is around 800 people per sq mile around here, I'd like to go somewhere closer to half that, or less. I'm about an hour outside of Boston right now and from what I can see the cost of living isn't to much different here to there. Not to worried about pot laws, they haven't stopped me yet, lol. How far north can you go before it gets shitty, regularly, in winters? I'm thinking the Fresno to Sacramento area is where I should be looking. I can't find much on jobs markets out there. Where's the military bases? That's usually where there is good manufacturing industry.

I'm gonna start a thread for this.
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I figured answering you here would be wiser so I moved my reply.

Actually Desert Hot Springs isn't to horribly populated but it is the low desert. Temps in the summer are upwards of 120 regularly and it's more humid than where I live (high desert). So many people grow out here and have for so long there's not a lot of money in selling. Plus now that we've gone legal it's a horse of a whole 'nother color. The permits are onerous and they are different between counties and cities within counties.

Tons of tweakers and thieves live out there because they were priced out of the Inland Empire by those priced out of Los Angeles and Orange County proper.

You'll have to grow indoors if you are growing on a larger scale and the electrical costs out here are insane.

Military bases; we have a very large Naval contingent in San Diego, a large Marine contingent in Oceanside (extremely populous in both places), in the high desert we have Army, Air Force, Marine and Naval contingents. Up by me (Lancaster), we have a cornucopia of military contractors building products and services (software). One reason I am located here.

As you continue north we have the Navy just outside of Hanford which is about three hours north of me and less populous but less and more populous in CA is a very relative term.

@cannabineer @Singlemalt @Aeroknow @doublejj @Grandpapy @shrxhky420 can all weigh in on the parts of the state they are from. I know little detail past Hanford/Fresno
 
cannabineer

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curious2garden said:
I figured answering you here would be wiser so I moved my reply.

Actually Desert Hot Springs isn't to horribly populated but it is the low desert. Temps in the summer are upwards of 120 regularly and it's more humid than where I live (high desert). So many people grow out henow here sometimese and have for so long there's not a lot of money in selling. Plus now that we've gone legal it's a horse of a whole 'nother color. The permits are onerous and they are different between counties and cities within counties.

Tons of tweakers and thieves live out there because they were priced out of the Inland Empire by those priced out of Los Angeles and Orange County proper.

You'll have to grow indoors if you are growing on a larger scale and the electrical costs out here are insane.

Military bases; we have a very large Naval contingent in San Diego, a large Marine contingent in Oceanside (extremely populous in both places), in the high desert we have Army, Air Force, Marine and Naval contingents. Up by me (Lancaster), we have a cornucopia of military contractors building products and services (software). One reason I am located here.

As you continue north we have the Navy just outside of Hanford which is about three hours north of me and less populous but less and more populous in CA is a very relative term.

@cannabineer @Singlemalt @Aeroknow @doublejj @Grandpapy @shrxhky420 can all weigh in on the parts of the state they are from. I know little detail past Hanford/Fresno
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I live in the Gold Country which I can marginally afford because we are surrounded by great tracts of nothing. It does snow here at times.
 
Splaap

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I live in Mojave, in a Winnebago. (as a great man once said) The desert is the answer to a lot of questions. You only have to find the right questions. It's a Zen thing. Snow is beautiful, but I prefer it in a poem or at least in the distance. Check out E. San Diego County. A little pricey but as long as local temps stay below 130F you are golden. Maybe you should hurry.
 
cannabineer

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Splaap said:
I live in Mojave, in a Winnebago. (as a great man once said) The desert is the answer to a lot of questions. You only have to find the right questions. It's a Zen thing. Snow is beautiful, but I prefer it in a poem or at least in the distance. Check out E. San Diego County. A little pricey but as long as local temps stay below 130F you are golden. Maybe you should hurry.
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Bug out from Michigan then?

 
Singlemalt

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San Luis Obispo county
https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/pmf,pf_pt/globalrelevanceex_sort/36.154509,-119.123383,34.659192,-121.584321_rect/8_zm/

You might find a deal (operative word might) near the pop. centers but based on what you've said, the east county California Valley/Carrisa Plains areas is lightly populated, with some deals. Cons: It's deserty and rather desolate, you'll have to sink a well(^^$$) and high crime(meth and pot grows along with hit/run rippers). Most of the county is wine grapes, very expensive land and homes. I bought 35 yrs ago before the grape rush, now I'm rich on paper, but since I don't plan on selling, I'm not rich lol
 
dangledo

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Spent over a year in Florida chasing tail. Good times and all but really made me miss snow. I love snow. Nothing better, to me, than just cruising around dead of night pushing and salting, smoking and jamming out to some tunes. Except the inevitable phone calls at 6am of everyone thinking they should be priority. Sorry your driveway is bottom of the list, I've got commercial to worry about. Call your fucking grandson. Don't say that though, women get offended calling them a grandma when they're only about 40:lol:
I lost that account.


Wait... what was this thread about?

I'd go near the redwoods. Haven't been there in decades though. I was like 12 and i was into star wars at the time.
 
Aeroknow

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WeedFreak78 said:
I started asking about places to live in Cali in jibber jabber , so i figured I'd start a thread.
I'm sick of winters, no.... I'm FUCKING SICK OF WINTERS!:cuss::finger::cuss::finger: I think I've reached my breaking point, I fucked my back up last Sunday, the first time it snowed, only 4", took me almost 6 hours to do clean up, total bullshit. I've been in a depressed mood for weeks. I'm a miserable fucking prick once it gets cold out, a hermit from December till April, and I'm getting sick of living like this. I can't play with my cars when everything's covered in snow/ ice/ sand/ salt, I can't go fishing( ok I WON'T go fucking ice fishing..:roll:), hiking in the snow? Fuck that! I don't even want to hang outside around a bonfire in this weather anymore. My cars rusty away from the bottom because of road treatment. Commute times double because of flurries. Paying to just keep my house comfortable when it's 20 out for 2 months is getting too fucking expensive. I can't garden for almost half the year. Bitch, bitch, whine, whine... poor me.

In the last few weeks I've, randomly, heard a few people say to do what you want in life to be happy, then my best friend was asking why I stick around if I'm so miserable and everything kinda clicked, I need to go. I'm single, no kids, no financial responsibilities and have some savings. I'm currently unemployed and should be for the foreseeable future. Seems like the next year or so would be the best time to pull the trigger. I have a friend that wants to move back to Cali, so i might have a roommate already, makes things a little easier. I'm spitballing here. Things I want:

Number 1, obviously, no more winter. Occasional light snow is fine. I'd like to keep temps above 40, for the most part. Im thinking below the 38th parallel would work.

The less people the better, but I don't want to be hours drive from basic services (food, gas, hospitals, etc)

I'd like to be around, within an hour or so, good off roading/ OHV parks and racetracks (drag and autocross).

I need a garage, so I'd probably be looking to buy property, but that's not 100%. I could end up renting for awhile to get established.

Pot laws aren't a concern, unlike every other "I'm moving" thread..lol.

I'll add more ad I think of it.
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I guess it all comes down to how close to the ocean you want to be IMO, Or how far away is acceptable. And how far away from a Costco is acceptable :-D In a perfect world I'd live on 20 acres of redwoods in the San Lorenzo Valley. But that's me.

The closer to the coast anywhere around the Bay Area is where the bulk of the population is in northern Ca. $$$$$$$

I fucking hate SoCal, for the most part, so I'm only speaking about the north state here. Where I think could be a great fit for you. Up here(north of Sac & east of Sac) there's shitloads of room. Unlike most anywhere near the Bay Area, which I love. Lots of towns to choose from up here. Elevation higher than around 2000' can get some snow(usually), 2400' gets snow that sticks(usually), higher than that it can fuck you.

Lots off off roading up here. if you want to catch the NHRA drags though, they're down in Sonoma, Infineon raceway. Here's a map I circled where I'd consider if i was you:
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doublejj

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Aeroknow said:
I guess it all comes down to how close to the ocean you want to be IMO, Or how far away is acceptable. And how far away from a Costco is acceptable :-D In a perfect world I'd live on 20 acres of redwoods in the San Lorenzo Valley. But that's me.

The closer to the coast anywhere around the Bay Area is where the bulk of the population is in northern Ca. $$$$$$$

I fucking hate SoCal, for the most part, so I'm only speaking about the north state here. Where I think could be a great fit for you. Up here(north of Sac & east of Sac) there's shitloads of room. Unlike most anywhere near the Bay Area, which I love. Lots of towns to choose from up here. Elevation higher than around 2000' can get some snow(usually), 2400' gets snow that sticks(usually), higher than that it can fuck you.

Lots off off roading up here. if you want to catch the NHRA drags though, they're down in Sonoma, Infineon raceway. Here's a map I circled where I'd consider if i was you:
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