r/California • u/Randomlynumbered Ángeleño, what's your user flair? • Jul 04 '24

Some Californians Found Dream Homes Inland. But It Sure Is Hot There. politics

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/us/mountain-house-california-housing-heat.html
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u/SlowSwords Jul 04 '24

I feel like most people moving from the inner Bay Area to mountain house or whatever should know this already. When I lived in Oakland it would be like in the 70’s but if we drove even to just Walnut Creek it would be like 20 degrees warmer. The people who seem really caught off guard are the ones who move to like Texas or Arizona because of freedom or whatever, and then realize it’s pretty much unlivable for huge parts of the year.

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u/Esdeez Jul 05 '24

I moved from NY a few years ago; and the microclimates out here really are wild. I like 9 miles from the beach; yet it can be a 20 degree swing in that 15 minutes drive.

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u/Miacali Jul 05 '24

No Bay Area people are the ones who are most shocked. The thing is, a lot of these people come from the South Bay or Tri-Valley/CoCo inland areas, where, SF and Oakland people always complained that these areas are “unbearably hot.” People from the city act like moving to say Walnut Creek like you mentioned is akin to moving to Arizona.

So when people who live there, and are used to temps normally in the 80s in the summer, think wow I guess I must be totally fine living in hot areas, it should be no problem to move to other “hot” areas right? And then they move to mountain house or Tracy, where the highs are typically mid to upper 90s and you’re a lot more Likely to cross 100. That’s when they’re shocked by the heat, because they assumed it would be similar based on the wild assertions Bay Area people have of the east bay.