San Francisco and what to do in it

Fully down for a Not New Year's Eve thing.

I’m usually out there sometime during that timE.

late to game, here to rep Placerville area or Newcastle outside sacramento: tres horsey, v pastoral old timey small towns, 45 min or less from city

cons -Sacramento summer sucks aasssss & lacks cool factor (literally & figuratively) of Sonoma/Marin County/Bay Area. but downtown is v vibrant now, esp in past 5-10 years, lots of growth etc.

oh and pville can be kinda rednecky but folks by and large are v nice

It’s waaaaaay too hot (for me) in Placerville- no way could I do 110 in the summer

Yeah I am specifically seeking better weather than hot and humid DC. Like, it is kind of a driving factor. That and the mosquitos.

And the lawyers. So many lawyers.

no humidity, just pure unadulterated fireball-in-the-sky heat

lol

entirely accurate (xp)

xpost, having grown up back east, I still marvel at the lack of bugs during the summers in the bay area.

I used to dislike southern california based on nothing but I like it well enough now. Pasadena is very nice. However, if you're trying to get away from heat, you probably don't want to live there.

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
xpost

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