Hey everyone, thanks for taking the time to check out my question. Here's what I'm thinking:
My girlfriend and I are considering moving to California. We're in our mid-20s and are just getting our financial lives started, so I know our choices are going to be quite limited.
We don't want to live crammed in L.A. or any big city for that matter, but we want to live relatively close to a beach. Close enough to not have to drive a day to get there, but also distant enough to be affordable.
So, we'd like to find a small town (perhaps liberal arts college town? -- we want to be a part of living liberal culture) that 'orbits' a larger city --- (1 or 2 hours from a city)
Simply entertaining daydreams about the topic, I thought there might be such a place just north of all of the SoCal traffic and excitement --- somewhere to live where it's maybe a little out of the sun's path some of the time, thus less people would live there (?)
I would love to hear thoughts!!
2006-06-25 18:43:00 · 8 answers · asked by John T 1 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ Los Angeles
Smaller towns are nice but they are getting expensive as well... There are more and more people moving from the bigger cities and commuting to work, raising the prices in the smaller cities too. You should check into some places between Santa Maria and Ventura. It's going to be expensive no matter where you go but, you are going to need to go up north to get into the liberal arts centers and entertainment. San Diego also has some affordable places around it and the beaches are great, you can also find a lot of entertainment and what not. Once you get up past Santa Barbara/ Pt. Conception the water gets pretty damn cold.
2006-06-26 03:29:08 · answer #1 · answered by BUD 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Generally California beaches water temperature tend to be in the 60's year round gets a bit warmer during the summer upper 60's and mid to lower 60's during the winter... but as you can tell it not gulf coast temperature's California waters are colder but when it somelike 90 along the coast cool water feels great.
2006-06-26 05:06:44 · answer #2 · answered by Mike Hunt 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NORTHRIDGE! That's your answer...It's not a small town, but CSUN is located there which is affordable and a pretty good school. The closest beach is about 20 minutes away. There's is tons of stuff to do....It's in the city, but it's not like living in downtown or anything.
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2006-06-27 16:09:50 · answer #3 · answered by kelyi36 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My experience has been that at Point Conception, west of Santa Barbara, the water turns from comfortable to not so comfortable.
2006-06-26 21:39:57 · answer #4 · answered by Steve-O 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well it all depends, because it is way expensive in CA and no matter were you go that is why i am moving to Idaho. so I would think really hard on it. but the ocean is nice to be by. I live like 45 min away from it.
2006-06-26 05:57:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Santa Barbara and north the water is 70 degrees and less....cold!!!
2006-06-26 00:42:16 · answer #6 · answered by Michael L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I were you I would go to San Diego, but that is a very expensive place to live.
2006-06-27 06:36:36 · answer #7 · answered by Jessica 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'd definitely want to be well south of Monterey -- we were there last week -- COLD!
2006-06-25 18:46:02 · answer #8 · answered by dockidny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋