SOUTHERN OREGON,great place,fair amount of rain in the winter,great in the summer,only problem...not a lot of work you have to look.try typing SOUTHERN OREGON in your search engine and take a look around...........
Ask yourself that question again after you have been there a couple of years., but have lot's of fun in the meantime. I got some fun little glassy waves today surfing in 70 degree weather, instead of going snow skiing by the afternoon which is a possibility ( without fighting traffic to Big Bear, wondering if it is physically possible to make it there ), I went to a nice oyster roast at a friends house ( that they own as middle class citizens ) with a bunch of really interesting genuine people, some I met while they were using my shop as a set for a hit tv show, and at the large movie studio down the street, Screen Gems Studios. Then me and my family went home to our house that we own, which cost us about $800,000 less than the same house in Venice would cost. We don't live in LA, but Wilmington, NC. It rained yesterday, but I could go surfing the next day still. In LA, I would/could get extremely ill or infected going into the water days after rains. I know a guy who almost lost his leg from a tiny infected cut. The Land Speed course, Maxton is 1.5 hours away. So in one day I could, get a dawn patrol surf, drive my hot rod to Maxton, to a land speed run, then get to the mountains for a afternoon then night ski. I went to the Goodguys show in Charlotte a couple hours away recently. Super cool. The cars are in the infield, and that night you can run your car around the big Nascar track. I am not talking slow, guy are up there going for it. The pace car is 100mph, but if you fall back you can race as fast as you can go until you catch up with the car again. If you wreck and try to sue, the North Carolina judge would probably say, "son, if you drive on a Nascar track, your better learn to drive, and then throw the case out as he called you a whiner, and tell you to go back to CA". just having some fun. So Cal is great ( I love it enough to go back and forth for surf and work), but fools gold at the same time. I think it is just played out. The surf and car culture while large in numbers, is just such a small percentage of the population now in So Cal (especially LA), and becoming more extinct every day. Times have changed in SoCal. Hawthorne High, where the Beach Boys went and sung about is a hole now. Hawthorne is an armpit. My shop was there for years. No one from Hawthorne surfs or drives a woody or hot rod anymore, except maybe 10 super cool cats I know out of 100,000 people. Verse here in Wilmington, NC where if you don't surf your neighbor does, and you have at least one classic car or your brother does, or at least someone does in the family. Classic cars and racing are a huge part of the majority culture here. This is where car racing and hot rodding started, hopping up your hot rod or 40 Ford to run the moonshine during the week, then racing it on the weekend. Charlotte is the racing capitol of the country today. But no where is perfect. Even if property values were the same, I think Wilmington, NC is just a much nicer place to live. It is a little like bizzaro land as you meet and get to know people here. 90% of the people here are decent nice Americans, while 90% of the people in SoCal just blow. (I am sure a lot of the folks on the hamb from socal are nice good Americans) The longer I am out of LA, the sillier LA and it's people seem. But then again, that is me, in my current situation as a family man, who has been there, done that. If I was in my 20's I would be singing a different tune. And I have only lived on the NC coast for 4 months via LA.... But then again, if I was a guy in my early 20's I could own a house here, surf a couple times a week, and own a couple of hot rods that I work on in the garage I own, verse renting an apartment with 3 friends and trying to save money for a car. All the singe hot girls from UNCW ( higher girl to guy ratio ) does not make it a bad spot to be a singe guy in your 20's here either. An old friend of mine who used to be the bartender on Sunset at The Coach and Horses in Hollywood, moved here in his late 20's and loves it here. There are big 8 mile long deserted/protected islands here like Masonboro, you can camp out on with your friends, have bon fires, and surf. I should get money from the Wilmington Tourist Organization for this post. ###### With all that said, I know tons of great folks in CA, and SoCal was and is very good to me, and I am extremely thankful for the charmed time I have spent in LA. Have Fun Respectfully Wil www.sakowskimotors.com
I've lived in KY, GA, AL, MA, IN, and am now LOVING my first Texas winter. The locals are griping about how cold it is....was almost 80 today. No complaints here. BEtter than anywhere else I've been
vegas, or california baby, thats where i wanna go. you would have to be rich to be into cars in hawaii. hot rods, and hot chicks year round. no almost killin yourself with kerosene torpedo heaters, or f#*king wood stoves.
I sure am surprised at all the Texas comments. Sounds nice, never really considered it before, heard alot of negative stuff about it, must of been from people who really didn't know.
We could use a Lot more common sense like this! You could move here to east central Ill annoy. Our second guvna in a row is under federal indictment and Plowboy's place is just down the road a bit.
Just do a traditional paint scheme on your snowmobile and you'll feel different about it. Don't tell us you don't have one...
I need to get out of Ohio to a warmer climate too,I would like to drive my old cars and ride the Harley a bit more. I do wish we would get some snow for christmas and so I could see how the snowblower attachment I installed on the lawn tractor works,it will proabaly be like last year when we got all the swow at what is supposed to be the end of winter. Jeff
Billj, Move to So Cal, there are only 12 months of Summer left!. If you are good at CNC call Standard Tool and Die (Stadco) in Los Angeles, they are a huge CNC machine shop, lots of special stuff and I saw an add on their building for machinest when I went by last week. I worked there in the 80 and can tell you it is a first rate shop. Rex
The answer is right in your question . fed. Last winter during the bad weather i went to the garage and built an FED. Forgot about the stupid snow and had fun.
Woke up to 9 degrees..wind chill must be in the below -0 45+ years of this shit...but if you have a heated shop its a good time to hibernate and get some work done. Almost got my A chassis complete.
Haha, nice pic of the gillnet boat. I used to work on one of those for about a year out of Chicago/Waukegan area. Talk about hard punishing work. Anyway, this is a good post. I have been laid off 3 times this year. Michigans economy is killing me. Thats why Im on the computer right now, one o clock on a Monday!
lived in tucson as a kid...dad got transfered to Portland when I was 13.....moved back home 7 years ago.NOT EVER LEAVIN!!!!..well maybe sometimes in the summer always something going on with the cars here,this was taken last new years weekend.........I would like a summer place in Portland or East Moline
Arizona's the best place if you can't afford San Diego. Cold spell here today like the rest of the US, though...high's only supposed to be about 69 today! Brrr
Since you're able to move anywhere and sounds like your a car/bike guy why not move to the middle of it! California!!
Check this site out, it might help you decide. Oh, Florida is HOT and HUMID in the summer, it's nice right now! www.zillow.com You can type in any location at the top of the page.
No offense to the lone star state and it's residents, but I lived in Texas for 6 months and would never go back. I thought Florida was hot until I lived in San Antonio for 6 months, holy shit. A few years ago I had some vendors fly in from Dallas to visit me here during August, and I said to them "sorry it's so hot while you guys are here", and they looked at each other like I was nuts and said "this ain't hot....this is like spring for us". I think Texans go to hell just to cool off. I like Florida. The car scene here pretty much sucks, and there are a lot of boneheads building some of the gayest, dumbest cars ever, but that doesn't really concern me. I just like cars, I could care less about the "scene" or any of the fags who worship it. But then, my life isn't about car shows. If your life revolves around the "car scene", Florida is not the best place to be. It gets a little hot in the summer, but the fishing & surfing are consistently good, and there are tons of really hot chicks here. The winters are very nice. It's late December, and I went surfing on Friday, I went to the dragstrip all day Saturday, and went deep-sea fishing all day Sunday. It was in the mid to high 70's the whole time.
That's great, but in FL, you'll be standing next to somebody else with the same amount of experience doing a valuable skill, wearing a paper hat with a yellow M on it on the wrong side of a SS counter. Go to TX, unless you have enough money to buy a house outright and enough to live on for about 2 years.
Move to Kalamazoo MI. We only have 15" of snow on the ground. It's like summer... Or, move to Las Vegas, where our son is. It only snowed 6" there last week, and it's over 100 for six months out of the year. Like living in a skillet... No place is perfect.
If it weren't for my job, I would be far away from NJ. I have been looking at real estate for the past year and even with prices coming down I still can't afford anything. A small 1 bedroom condo in a not-so-good area will run you 180k easy... and that's in a crowded area like Jersey City with street parking only... living like a rat. Just to give you an example, I rent a house right now with some buddies from work. Before it was available for rent, asking price was $570k. It's a 4 bedroom 2 bath with no garage that's slapped together like garbage. They just raised property taxes to 13k this year. I plan on sticking around here another 3-4 years or so to finish my education (currently am lucky enough to have some grad scholarships) and then an looking to split to Texas. Some of the areas I've seen out there are gorgeous weather and you can get a decent house with a driveway and a garage for under 200k. I love California with a passion but real estate is high in the areas I'd want to be. People out here are screaming to leave because you just can't afford anything around the NYC area anymore. People are holed up in the rural areas of Eastern PA driving 2 hours each way to work just to be able to feed their families.
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