santa barbara, ca

It is true that most of the carnage from the thread on crazy real estate photos hails from CA.

Glen Annie is a cool area. there's a cheap but beautiful golf course. I wouldn't necessarily live over there. I would live close to cathedral/foothill so I could take it to Glen Annie. the area surrounded by Glen Annie rd, cathedral oaks, and the 101 is one of the most suburb feeling locations.

where's the crazy real estate thread shoot it into my veins

we can walk to restaurants, coffee, parks, grocery stores, etc. and i don't live in a target based condo development. i feel like it's a small city if you live in the small city.

yeah my idea of suburbs is very european i guess, but residential california is suburban by defintion imo.

quincie, i feel you'd enjoy upper east, oak park, laguna, downtown, and lower state areas if you don't want to feel too suburban. maybe lower riviera as well.

Oh we will definitely relocate from the the rich ppl mansion (I mean srsly google sixteenfiftyone sycamore cnyn rd and begin the rofls) to a small city area. Or hell maybe will stay in rich ppl guest suite forever, it's pretty cheap. And 400 square feet. Where both of us will be working full time.

But I mean I plan to take calls from the pool, let's be real.

Oh apparently I grossly overstimated the square feet. It's 225. Cozy!

haha wow. you will do well here if you can continue to value weather and lot size over square footage.

Oh shit that rental fell through. How do I shot furnished short term rental in uh 3 weeks?

I shot it! East Beach/Milpas. Another guest suite but for a normalish property not a Riviera mansion property. Guess I will have to settle for ocean instead of pool.

Walking distance to East Beach Tacos, are those good tacos?

that's the batting cage tacos! they are good. and it's fun to have a drink and do a terrible job attempting to hit home runs after.

should be a good spot. east beach tends to be less crowded. it's where most of the regular volleyball happens. the pavillion was under construction, but it may be done now? tri-county produce is a good little grocer. Habit Burger is good. You'll have solid mexican food up milpas along with the best trader joes. brand new Sprouts nearby. you can also walk cabrillo to the funk zone or ride bikes to butterfly beach and montecito.

you'll have many options for outdoor hanging. the thin strip of grass between the beach and cabrillo, the bird refuge, and the zoo is sort of like a nice park. convivo is maybe a bit expensive when you have so much cheap food nearby, but it's good. SB farmers market would also be an easy bike ride.

for somebody that prefers a small city feel, i'd consider this new spot an upgrade

Yeah if I had to move home again I’d try and get in around milpas

Yeah the location is definitely more our speed than up in the hills! Relieved to have something squared away, it was getting a little close for comfort. Our bikes will be in storage in DC until we buy, bet I can rent something or like steal one from an Isla Vista group house.

drove by east beach this morning, and the pavilion appears to be finished. the three months you're over there will be "rainy season", but there will be sunny days. temperature should never get too hot again, though. autumn in santa barbara feels like it lasts from now until spring. i absolutely love autumn, and this may be why i can't leave.

and why I am kicking myself that I have spent so much time in the swamp!

ok random question: is there an SB track with a good springy surface that the public can use? Like maybe at the high school?

I'm almost a year out from mega knee surgery and am finally *almost* to the point of being able to jog a bit, but the PT recommends a nice forgiving surface at first, not concrete or asphalt. Here in DC we can use the Sidwell Friends school track which is nice enough for presidents' kids, so good enough for me obv.

La Playa Stadium at SBCC is a very popular spot. It might be closed right now due to the pandemic.

UCSB also will have this, but I'm not sure if it's open to the public.

I've noticed some people like to jog on the beach, close to the water where the sand is firm.

All that. Also if you want to try a thing pedal to the butterfly refuge and x-country to the beach

DPHS has a tartan track but not sure if it's open to the public.

I will check those out, thanks.

Apparently spouse is ready to embrace small(er) town living and wants to go to high school football games on Friday nights (he can't help it he's from Texas). Which school should he root for? I'm gonna get down with Goleta.

San Marcos

Cate School in the hills above the Rincon. Both David Crosby (pulled the electrical breakers and cut off power to the entire school, stealing common area TV, etc.) & Stephen Malkmus (mushrooms) were both expelled from.

*pffft*

LOOK OUT SANTA BARBARA I AM COMING FOR YOU IN T MINUS 48 HOURS

What is good to eat in Goleta, I will be there a lot with pony at Glen Annie

you could get your first Freebird burrito? I don't understand the love for Super Cuca's, rare as it seems. Lilly's tacos will be cheap and just down the road (pork and beef variations >> chicken, so maybe avoid if you are a chicken taco person). Noodle City has good, cheap pho, broken rice (rec #22), and vermicelli (#41). The original Habit Burger is in downtown Goleta. I've heard good things about Neighbor Tim's BBQ (stay away from other BBQ). Decent local brewery nearby Tim's as well.

Tim's is a food truck next to brewery. you order online. looks like weekend hours might be dinner only.

I also like nikka ramen down calle real

I'M THE GOD OF GOLETA BABY

(sorry)

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

In other moving to santa barbara news, any contractor recommendations or warnings? Plan to knock out a kitchen and bathroom reno post haste.

our experiences have been middling. I'd ask your realtor.

Can ya'll tell me about the rainy season? Is it even called that? When does it happen? What is it like? Disclosures report that our new SB street floods and to park the car up the hill (what hill, I don't even know) when it rains.

Why yes, I'm buying a house with "issues."

In better news, we had a different foundation inspector in yesterday and he did not see "major red flags," so I guess there is that.

winter is the "rainy season". It's the only time it rains all year. no storms, but the rain can be heavy. If drainage is poorly designed, it rains enough that water can collect. I'm not sure what is meant by "the street floods". Some streets are curved with "gutters" on the sides where water flows down. If a street floods, that implies it is at a local minimum elevation or something weird. Mission St is a bit like that.

worsst flooding is usually at the castillo 101 underpass

everyone generally happy about rain, as SB is peak beautiful when green and the lakes are full. Only bad when you have heavy rain after an off season wildfire that damages the soil.

I mean there are things meteorologists call storms in winter but yeah the weird thing about coastal Southern California weather is there is basically no lightning ever.

welcome, quincie and partner! Congrats on finding one of the best spots to live in this here world. Now please don't tell anyone.

Thank you! I will tell everyone back on the lesser coast that it is awful here and they should stay put :)

We drove around yesterday with stupid grins on our faces :)

I keep thinking "oh I hope I get to do X on this trip" and then remembering this is not trip--this is *home* now.

Gonna be hard to go back to work tomorrow when "home" feels like a vacation destination.

Oh and we got to see the house we bought yesterday, and we looooooooove it.