San Francisco and what to do in it

Even the bay area is getting hotter in the summer, but it's tolerable and I'm convinced that the more or less temperate climate is only going to make it more desireable over the next 40 years as 3/4 of the country bursts into flames.

Santa Rosa gets pretty hot in summer, doesn’t it? The further inland you go, the worse it gets

Yep, it does, and Healdsburg/Cloverdale even moreso. Closer to the coast (Forestville, Guerneville, Sebastopol) stay a bit milder.

And the nice thing even in the hottest parts of the county is that a) the heat’s totally dry and b) those summer days can have a high of 100 but a low of 55, so it really does fully cool off every night.

b) those summer days can have a high of 100 but a low of 55, so it really does fully cool off every night.

"can have" does not equal "always have" ... unless you are specifically talking Sonoma County ... further south, this is definitely not the case

I was born and raised in Sebastopol, relocated to Brooklyn but am still back to visit my folks in Santa Rosa every year or so, can cosign everything Eazy said. Lots of my friends moved back to 'slow-coma' county in the past year after their kids were born. It's edenic behind the redwood curtain.

i think Santa Cruz is a great suggestion. Further south, but friends live in a little town near santa barbara called carpiteria. supposedly very nice. don't know if it quite ticks all your boxes though. parts of LA are awesome, but i really don't know enough to make suggestions. stear clear of the inland empire though. it pretty sucky

I think it's Carpinteria. Were you thinking of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqM7KgyXz2Q

One of the catchiest jingles of my childhood!

lol, yes. and i had completely forgotten abt that

Santa Barbara is *way* farther south

LMBO at Carpiteria, still not sure if that was a troll post or not, well done.

i know, just trying to be "california completist" if quincie is considering other parts
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Can't believe no one has suggested Lodi yet

Take it to the CCR thread.

Sure thing josh in CHICAGO

Would you prefer Josh in Chico?

nobody wants to live in Chico

oh wait sorry I was thinking of Chino

Chico's not so bad

https://ksassets.timeincuk.net/wp/uploads/sites/55/2019/01/GettyImages-1047605856-920x584.jpg
"Chiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnooooooo ... "

yknow where is really poppin

Hercules

Chico is full of idiotic beer pong loving college drunks

or might i suggest

~flourish~

Clearlake

quincie do you like meth, perchance?

lol beer pong

Oh dear, spouse talked to some tech bro and now wants to add RENO to the mix??? Wtf??? How did we get from NoCa to RENO?

Hemet is where it's at ... or Turlock

quincie do you like meth, perchance?

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, August 28, 2019 8:55 PM (yesterday)

If she does, I would really like to give a shout out to Bakersfield!

Oh dear, spouse talked to some tech bro

I've found the problem.

Reno pros: cheap, close to Tahoe, "under the radar cool"

Or so I hear. Friends move there and people nod and say "yeah Reno is actually supposed to be pretty cool." idk

I am not moving to fucking reno

Ned otm

"Dude, and each year, Burning Man is RIGHT THERE."

"Wow, you've sold me."

Yeah well for better or for worse spouse is a tech bro so we do need to go somewhere where he can do that. I figure we will both end up working at Kaiser.

On cursory inspection, Santa Cruz looks like Coney Island?

I figure we will both end up working at Kaiser.

headquarters in Oakland, represent!

Does coney island have redwoods? Locals dont generally bother w the boardwalk

Santa Cruz is pretty small and it's two most notable features are probably the university and the boardwalk. But essentially it's a small beach town (with all that that implies) on the edge of a redwood forest.

xp - hey, we fucked w/the boardwalk on $2 Tuesdays! ... Santa Cruz was more scruffy boho prior to the earthquake in 1989. It's gotten way more bougie since the extensive earthquake damage allowed developers to gentrify the fuck out of it. One of the best used record/books stores, Logos, that I remember from my teen years, closed in the past few years ...

I went to school there so would never call myself a "local" (altho DJI can def claim that)

I have many records that still have the LOGOS price sticker stamped on them

I have many records that still have the LOGOS price sticker stamped on them

same here! some of them I sold last year for at least what I paid for them ... so many $3 punk and new wave records ...

We was ridin high til the '89 quake
Hit the Santa Cruz Garden Mall
Like a wrecking ball

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1ujuoo9VbA

I have no knowledge of pre-earthquake SC. I guess downtown is more bougie, but the overall city itself still seems to have that weird insular bubble vibe college towns sometimes have - still a mix of hippie burnouts, students/academia, surfers, retirees, and weirdos

way better vibrant music scene than their used to be, as well

Reno is fine to visit but idk abt living there

way better vibrant music scene than their used to be, as well

Camper Van Beethoven would like to have a word with you.

Here's a good history of the UC Santa Cruz banana slug mascot:

https://www.ucsc.edu/about/mascot.html

*cough* I think I trust the guy who lives within driving distance of Santa Cruz and is actively involved in music to be able to say how the scene's been doing in comparison to recent years -- like, say, this century. You know?

It was a joke. You know?

Oh I’m a huge CVB dork. Of course they were done by the time i got there. I did see Cracker’s very first show ever at the Catalyst in SC though. They covered Massive Attack’s Unfinished Sympathy.

But when I was there there was nowhere for small bands to play (or even rehearse), one local label in operation, and maybe a half-dozen (non-hippie) bands trying to play house parties and random breweries and shit. The Fucking Champs were the biggest thing going.

There’s way more going on now afaict

Maybe you're forgetting about my band from high school? Stigmata?

I think the (((Folk Yeah!))) guy has been a godsend to the area, he's booked a bunch of stuff in SC. There's a metal scene, there's psych stuff, we recently did a show with a great singer-songwriter type guy from down there. There's two major places for smaller, independent music that opened up since I left (Moe's Alley and the Abbey), etc. There's an actual recording studio at UCSC's Music Center that did not exist when I went there (I did get in there a couple years later when they were initially setting it up). It's very different now.

When I went there touring bands did *not* come through Santa Cruz - with the exception of boomer bands coming through the Catalyst and the odd "secret" Neil Young show - and shows by local bands were generally tiny, illegal, and sparsely attended. One time I saw the Melvins at a (now defunct) brewery, that felt like a big deal.

lol DJI xp