SoCal, HERE I COME!!!!!

I've always liked the sound of socal myself(obviously), and have always thought I might prefer the outskirts over the city. My biggest thing is weather and I don't mind paying for it. I love Colorado too but then you have that cold weather thing. I get terribly depressed when the temp drops below 50. I also wouldn't mind Arizona but it does still get colder than I would want and a bit hotter than I like. I prefer 110's over 40's but they aren't my favorite.

I love where I live, 120 miles east of San Diego, far enough from L.A., 35 minutes away from some killer dunes and not to far away from the beaches of baja.

I'm sure I would love it too, but I don't know if I would want to be that close to Mexico. I'm just scared of Mexico with all of the drug war nonsense. I know that I will be close enough just being around LA. Speaking of drug war, am I the only one that thinks legalization will just about eliminate it? If it's legal here, and we produce it here; not only will it provide more jobs and free up space in the jails by removing non-violent offenders, but we will have no need to buy Mexican drugs. People are going to continue to use drugs whether they are legal or not. So we have a choice, we can legalize them, tax them, and regulate them(which could eventually cause a fall-back on stronger illegal drugs), or we can keep them illegal and keep spending billions each year on a war that has never gotten better sice it started, and keep building jails to house "criminals" who are there because they used/sold a plant.

I talked to my CA friend last night and I asked about home prices there. She said prices have come way down. But from the sounds of things they're still pretty crazy.

I asked her how prices are out of town. She said generally the farther you get away from the LA area the cheaper home prices are. For example she said houses are much cheaper in Victorville.

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...keep building jails to house "criminals" who are there because they used/sold a plant.

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I don't drink or smoke (tobacco or weed). But my personal feeling is that alcohol is a much more dangerous drug than marijuana. I'd much rather meet someone on the road who had been smoking pot than someone who was drunk. Drunks are out of control. Stoners usually just drive real slow. lol

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I talked to my CA friend last night and I asked about home prices there. She said prices have come way down. But from the sounds of things they're still pretty crazy.

I asked her how prices are out of town. She said generally the farther you get away from the LA area the cheaper home prices are. For example she said houses are much cheaper in Victorville.

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They are still pretty crazy unless you are more inland, Riverside has some CHEAP homes.

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I don't drink or smoke (tobacco or weed). But my personal feeling is that alcohol is a much more dangerous drug than marijuana. I'd much rather meet someone on the road who had been smoking pot than someone who was drunk. Drunks are out of control. Stoners usually just drive real slow. lol

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or they don't drive at all.... rather sit in front of the TV or do stuff around the house.

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They are still pretty crazy unless you are more inland, Riverside has some CHEAP homes.

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My friends sister bought a house in Riverside. I've been to her sisters house several times. She paid 375k for a house that would go for about 75k here.

Her house might not be worth that now (prices have gone down a bit), but I'm sure it would still go for a crazy price compared to here.

They also have some crazy laws in some of the suburbs. For instance, where my friend lives you can't park in front of your house unless you get a parking permit for each night, or buy a yearly permit. If you don't have a permit, you get a ticket. Just another way for them to get in your wallet.

She lives in a modest 4 bedroom home that might go for 130k here, it was 750k there.

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Originally Posted by Fasglas

I talked to my CA friend last night and I asked about home prices there. She said prices have come way down. But from the sounds of things they're still pretty crazy.

I asked her how prices are out of town. She said generally the farther you get away from the LA area the cheaper home prices are. For example she said houses are much cheaper in Victorville.

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like many relaters say, " location location location", the houses in victorville and riverside are cheaper cause your pretty much in the desert-ish kind of area and its not too overly populated. you can find great prices for those places along with palmdale and landcaster all cheaper because its not as desired as places closer to LA or SD. i live in a small town 45 min outside LA and about 20 min from ventrua and its not as cheap as those places. i can tell u a decent condo will cost around 500,000 and a 3 bed room 2 bathroom house will most likley cost any where from 900,000 to 1.1 mill and of course the bigger the house or property it will go up from a range of 1.2 to 2 or 3 mill. it is not cheap by any means but worth it to some people.

yup, pay for your environment. You want nice weather all year round and stuff to do, you are going to pay for it. I'm sure you make a lot more money out there for the same job as you do here too. I know when Ashlei was looking, the starting rate for her job there is almost twice what it is here.

That would be great if the houses were only twice as much. :(