| Author | Message | ||
     Midknyte |
Wifey wants to move to Cali, and after the non-summer I had up here in the midwest, I find it hard to argue. Please tell me that one of you knows of a good dealer/shop in or near San Diego. And also, please PM me if you wouldn't mind helping me build some contacts out there for job hunting. Thanks. | ||
| Vegasbueller |
Talk her into moving to Las Vegas! It's a lot friendlier here, as well as cheaper to live. We need more Buell riders too! | ||
| Kevyn |
If you search, I'd expect you'd find that Las Vegas has a 'healthy and expanding' economy. Easy access to San Diego and LA, great off-road areas, easy access to mountains, better air quality, better hotel rates for visitors, entertainment galore, high quality education. San Diego and LA have higher cost of living and the traffic is legendary. Las Vegas is a fun city that just happens to also have gambling everywhere. Lake Mead is a jewel. | ||
| Midknyte |
We were out there this past spring (CA) and the mountains as you get inland towards Las Vegas are beautiful. Dunno if I'd be able to talk her into it - she's from overseas and the climate and palm trees & ocean are the big draw for her. Don't need to live in San Diego proper/ Nearby and still coastal? | ||
| Vegasbueller |
Hey.. we have a BIG lake.. well at least for the next few years anyway. It has big Palm trees! | ||
| Fullpower |
sandiego? isnt that a suburb of tijuana? | ||
| Outrider |
Yeah...Border Towns are so much fun, eh? | ||
| Charlieboy6649 |
I love San Diego but will never live there again. $1490 a month for a one bedroom! Screw that! Food, gas, entertainment, the prices there match. Midknyte, I don't know what your expertise or trade is, but companies also pay hansomly. If I could afford it, and didn't have the military telling me where to live LOL, I'd still be there... Just a thought. Look into Phoenix Metro. It's a hop skip and a jump from Vegas, LA, and SD. The cost of living is great, and there's plenty of jobs. P.S. Kevyn, there's cheap lodging only if there's no event or convention in town that is. LV sells out constantly. Hard to believe... | ||
| 2bbuell |
Anywhere in the O.C. along the Pacific Coast Highway is brilliant! But dude- major dinero for like everything! | ||
| Buelliedan |
You will need a job that pays at least 2 and a half times more than you make now if you expect to maintain the same standard of living in San Diego or anywhere close. | ||
| Kevyn |
Charlieboy, Used to have relatives in LV. Fantastic place. Always loved to visit. The lake is just freakin' outstanding. Too many good memories and stories there!! Phoenix is not quite as friendly probably because it's a bit more cosmopolitan and upscaled but a grand city just the same. Lot's of good times and memories there also! SoCal was a blast from '76-'81! Riverside still had orange groves! Unbelievable motorcycling for hundreds of miles in every direction! I think the biggest dollar issue will be housing...just a guess, but since you've already experienced Chicagoland real estate, SD a bit north and inland may be within reason. Developers are carving subdivisions into every acre available between LA and the border. Life's the longest thing you'll ever do but still too short to miss a shot at living big in SoCal! | ||
| Shky_jake |
Vegas has a lot of job opp depending on what your trade or skill is. One big thing is most jobs here come with med benifits. House prices are high but the cost of most things are low. Great weather year around. My suggestion is to come out and visit. Not as a casino vacation. Get off the strip and you will be suprised at what Vegas has to offer. | ||
| Unibear12r |
Midknyte post in the So. Cal. Storm Fronts threads. Lots of riders down in the south end of the state, some might be able to help. There are still some places in Cali that isn't too hard on the pocket book. (Message edited by unibear12r on October 11, 2004) | ||
| Krassh |
I live in North San Diego County. There are two dealers up here. Actually same dealer, Biggs Harley two shops. One in San Marcos and the other in Oceanside. I have had better luck at the Biggs Harley in San Marcos. The Service guy I deal with is Chris and the parts department is great. They don't flinch when you mention Buells or make stuff up about not being able to get parts. I would not recommend moving to San Diego though, I live in a bad part of Vista and pay $1,200.00 for a 3 bed 2 bath with a 2 car garage. The neighborhood sucks, ghetto birds flying with their spot lights etc. We are fed up with the excessive housing prices ($400,000 and up for a semi decent place to live) and are moving to Crestline near Big Bear in the Mountains. I will get a little snow up there but as long as the roads are clear and can make it down the hill I am fine. I am paying $229,000 for a 3 bed 2 bath 1584 sq ft with a 9000 sq ft lot. The same place in San Diego, probably would go for $500,000+. Unless you have a lot of extra cash for rent or a huge down payment I would not recommend moving to San Diego. Don't get me wrong it is beautiful and just about every day is a riding day and I do ride just about every day. Basically San Diego has a housing shortage and an artificially created high housing prices. They made it hard starting about 15 years ago to get building permits for new houses, condo's, etc. It was an attempt to not become another LA so they restricted permits to discourage people moving to the area. Unfortunately that did not work and people moved here anyway so housing prices rose fast. About 3 years ago you could buy a decent house for $200,000 to $250,000 that house to today is worth over $500,000. Quite a jump huh? The guy coming to replace me is coming from Atlanta and is leaving a 5 bed 3 bath 3,300 sq ft house. He, his wife and 2 kids are moving into a 2 bed 1 bath 1019 sq ft apartment building in La Jolla for $1,595 a month. Crazy in my book. I was ready to leave Cali a couple of months ago (something I said I would never do) before my senior manager made this offer to move me to an area of So Cal where I could afford a home. I could see why you would want to move from Chicago though. If you moved to San Diego for work I bet within six months you would be living in the Desert near Temecula (about 60 miles north of San Diego) where you still have to pay about $300,000+ for a decent home. Anyway just stating my opinion and you could be independently wealthy and then my argument would be moot. | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
You could always move to France, the weathers nice & the food is excellent + the houses are cheap. I'll sell you a 3 bed farmhouse with out-buildings for 160k, new kitchen and everything. Nice neighbours, virtualy zero crime area, plenty of jobs & smooth twisties out the front door! Only drawback, you'll need to learn French, but hey if I can do it, it can't be that hard right!  | ||
| Buelluk |
Grumpy, which area of France are we talking about and is that 160K in USd or Euros. Personally the wife and I are looking to buy in Europe in the future and I love the Pays d'Oc. | ||
| Midknyte |
Vegas, Krassh, Thanks. I asked - near the ocean is shall we say, a requirement. We went out there for a [first] scouting trip this last spring and both of us very much liked the Chula Vista development going on. Looking for something like that - not necessarily San Diego, but an suberbia with easy access. I am in IT, so with some amount of good luck, this may all be affordable. | ||
| Krassh |
Check out East Lake it is a nice area of Chula Vista. There are a lot of new developments going in there plus a freeway is being extended to the area. I have never tried to look for a job in IT while in San Diego so not sure what the job climate is here. I was lucky to have landed a job in IT with Sprint before the bubble burst and it was easy at the time to get a job in IT. There are definitely a lot of bio medical places in San Diego that I am sure need IT workers. | ||
| Cataract2 |
Or you could move to sunny Florida, just gotta put up with some rough Aug. weather. | ||
| Fullpower |
you guys must be nuts. Kalifornia??? bring your wife to Alaska. Here on the southern tip of the Kenai Peninsula we have an April to October riding season. HD/Buell store only 80 miles up the road. land is cheap, gasoline is only $2.20 gallon, and life is good. | ||
| Ara |
I couldn't afford to live in my home state of California, and wouldn't choose to even if I could. I'm thinking Spokane, Washington or Prescott, Arizona or Las Vegas, New Mexico or maybe Albuquerque. All have good climates, long riding seasons, and lower costs of living than Sandyeggo. | ||
| Raraf |
Sigh, I miss Alaska. How about just letting her move. Never mind, was thinking about my wife (shudder). I suffer through my wife's pre during and post menstrual syndromes. Gives me 1 good week out of the month. Damn! Time to hide! The days on the calendar are getting puffy and bloated! | ||
| Ara |
Raraf, I've been through that. Eventually her behavior got so bad that she committed adultry and ended our marriage. If it's as bad as you say, there's medication available to smooth out the peaks and valleys. I recommend you look into it before things get so bad that it's impossible to go back to the way things were. Hang in there. Russ | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
My ex suffered from the same problem, the recommended medication is high velocity lead. | ||
| Raraf |
Meds don't work on my lovely. She was on anti-depressants and then would drink wine with it. Good times! It ain't no thang though. My bro has it worse, his gal pal, that he had kids with, takes a liquid form of anti-depressants so it hits quicker. Violent moods swings galore. You can actually see her change in minutes. Scary. Women are living proof that there is a God and he is a comedian. He gave us no other choice, it's either women or suck a big (shudder) | ||
| Midknyte |
"...it's either women or..." Reminds me of a joke I just saw. I digress... One day, Harry came upon a big, long ladder that stretched into the clouds. He'd walked this way every day and this ladder was never there before. Curious and brave, he began to climb. Eventually, he climbed into the layer of clouds, and saw this rather large, homely woman lying here on a cloud. She spoke, "Take me now or climb the ladder to success!" Harry figured success had to be better than this, so he continued climbing. He came upon another level of clouds, and found a thinner, cuter woman than before. She also spoke, "Take me now or climb the ladder to success!" Harry saw that his luck was changing and so continued his climb. On another level of clouds, he found a rather attractive woman with not so bad of a figure. She stated, "Take me now or climb the ladder to success!" Harry really liked his advantage now! He climbed quickly and deftly, and sure enough, on the next level, he found a gorgeous, lithe, well-endowed woman lying seductively on the cloud. "Take me now or climb the ladder to success," she huskily whispered. Harry couldn't believe his eyes, but his greed got the best of him. He climbed to the next level, expecting Aphrodite or similar. Suddenly, the ladder ends, and a latch closes behind him. He looks over to see a 400 pound, 6'8" hairy biker- looking guy with tattoos. The biker gets up and walks menacingly toward Harry. Apprehensively, Harry whispers, "Who are you?" The biker answers, "I'm Cess." | ||
| Rex |
move to northern cal, or reno. reno is close to the deserts,mountains,california, etc.... | ||
| Midknyte |
Temperate weather is a draw for me. (I could search for this next answer or just ask, I'll ask...) How far north can one go (or how far south does one need to stay) to have good, non-snow winters (60'ish)? |
