Gold Country is where the 49'rs came to pan and sluice for gold. We still have very much the same mindset here, and we have people whose families have been here since the Gold Rush. Be careful in choosing your location since you have kids. In fact, in ANY rural area, methamphetamine is popular. And in San Diego (stay outta Spring Valley!).
OC has jobs where the Gold Country doesn't. It also has crime like the GC doesn't. It's all a trade-off, especially if you're going to be renting and not buying.
Ya know, I actually have an uncle who lives right on Tahoe. Wow I kinda forgot about him. He's like 80. Great uncle. Frickin millionare. Good idea Outwest! Howz the market? Underground Top Shelf?
Tahoe proper is going to be as expensive, and populated, as any other urban area of the state. Stay completely the fuck out of the Central Valley and away from Stockton, mkay? CRIME, and they are not 420-friendly. Also, many of the foothill areas are unfriendly, so again, be aware of the local laws and ordinances in any area where you plan to move. Any good real estate agent should be both willing and ABLE to discuss these things with you.
Ill say this,If you come to cali you will already have friends to support you,let us know how we can help.Its such a big and diverse place you gotta give more info as to what your looking for and the environment you want to be in.Its not like the midwest where you can drive 100 miles in any direction and it looks the same,socal is warmer and dryer and you can be in the desert,ocean,mountains or hustle bustle of a city all within an hour of each other,on the other hand norcal is cooler and wetter and you can be in the towering redwoods,gorgeous mountains and unreal coastline,its 1500 miles long of diversity with a shit ton of people crammed in their too.
Have you ever driven the north-south length of California? Fortunately it's not as bad as Texas, but it still takes a LONG fucking time to get there!
Thankyou my freind. Reassurring to know my boyz got my back. I really dig the country, but came from the city. Big hunter, fisherman and gatherer. Love the woods. Never explored the desert. Lol, Id never leave with all the snakes! Frickin love snakes! In fact, I just got two of the biggest Cali Kingsnakes Ive ever seen! They are a six foot breeding pair. Beautiful! Ill post a pic.
Cali's diversity climate wise is whats so attractive to me I think. All the stuff to do. All the dank genetics! Love beach. Been to Florida a million times, but u cant really surf the waves there, not while I was visiting anywayz. But Im 35 now. I wanna see outwest! I wanna live free! Smoke a fattie sittin on tje edge of a cliff watchin the sunset. Been a dream of mine sunce I was a teen smokin down! Lol, I,know kooter has heard me mention that dream a shitload of times, tryin to talk him into headin out there with us! Lol.
Maybe central Cali, so I could enjoy the diversity by short drives in different directions. Howz that sound?
I really appreciate everyone chiming in to help me. Pretty cool shit goin on at The Farm. Thankyou. Any dispensary or Collective owners out there lookin for a good farmer to put on the team?
Oh... shit. <facepalm> We get the black/white morphs up here, and I had never seen a wild king in California until I moved up here. Strikey little fuckers, they want NOTHIN' DOIN'. Back in 2001, the weekend of the WTC attacks, I went out to the desert north of
Yucca Valley with my son, father, and son's friend. My folks have a cabin in a little place called Landers (VERY tectonically active place! is tectonically a word..? If it ain't then I just made it up). In any event, on the evening of the 15th I went out on a quad ride with my son's friend. It was going great, and then we ran across this little bitty GREEN snake. I had to stop. It was a
rattler! A baby, it only had a single rattle bud, but it was quite calm, so I got a hold of it because it was GREEN! We were cool for about 15-20mins, and then I got distracted, looked away, must have let its tail down just enough and BAM, it bit me. Now I can't handle rattlesnakes barehanded anymore. But! I can handle all the constrictors, no problem. :D
I've yet to see a rattlesnake up here. :(
Earthquake and ensuing Sunami,, thats why I left 25 years ago....Comming soon...
You were living in the wrong place. Where we are, less than 10% ground shake (I'll pull up that map I like to share), and if it ends up beach-front property, it was at one time anyway, so...?
Did you know that the Sierra Nevada range is rising NOT because of tectonic activity, but because the granite plutons are FLOATING above the surrounding rock? They still have a ways to go, and so the Sierra still rises. The Sierra used to be a chain of islands, just like the Channel Islands off the coast, several chains IIRC. They were pushed up onto the North American Plate, which then
tilted, which is why the western scarp is a gentle rise, and the eastern scarp is so spectacular.
Ok, mah groundshake map. :D
http://redirect.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/rghm/pshamap/pshamain.html
