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| 207565 | 10448 | Cities to Surf and raise a family in that are somewhat affordable? | 24 | Sax-son | May 17, 2021 | 2021-05-17T15:07:36-0400 | KDenning said: My fiance and I are in this camp now so I feel like I can speak to our reasoning. We'd love to stay in Ventura but rent on our street starts around $3800 without utilities. Buying the same house would be at least $1 million and need an incredible amount of work. We could buy in Ventura for $700,000 but that wouldn't mean that it's safe or updated. We could move 35 minutes inland where it's 108 degrees every day in the summer with nothing to do but drive back to Ventura whenever we want to surf/go to restaurants/feel like we're part of a community and we'd still be lucky to pay less than $600,00. This is my impression of the entire coast of California from SB to SD. We took our money and bought a cabin outside of Lake Tahoe on the way to Sacramento. We'll miss living by the beach. Neither of us has lived more than 30 minutes from the beach in over a decade BUT we'll be happy to take that $2,000/month we'll save and put it towards trips to Hawaii or extended stays back in Ventura living out of one of our vans. Simple math told us that we could keep working our 9-5 jobs and afford our house in Ventura or buy somewhere more affordable and be our own bosses indefinitely. I love surfing but I love not having to answer to anyone a lot more. Click to expand... I think your reasoning is logical and financially sound. I lived in Ventura and the Oxnard area for almost 56 years and although I still love the area for various reasons, it is definitely not worth what folks are paying for housing. It's just not! If you would be staying there specifically for surfing, that would certainly make that an expensive sport to be involved with. I have a friend who was born and raised in Ventura and they moved to Portland, Oregon about 20 years ago. He still has the surfing bug but not quite as much as he was younger primarily due to age. Now retired, he now rents a house for 1 month out of the year in the off season to which all he does is go surfing. He says that he feels like he is still part of the sport while not having to deal with all the pitfalls of living in Southern California. Perhaps you may consider a similar strategy. Believe me that there are many days in VC not worthy of surfing do to wind or other weather. The down time gets pretty costly when you are paying close to $4000.00 per month for housing. At this moment in time, housing anywhere in California is completely insane. I can't see how it continues. |