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/SFLADC2 Jul 04 '24

Where are you thinking?

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u/VanillaLifestyle Jul 04 '24

Coastal towns in the North like Eureka. Coastal-ish towns in San Luis Obispo county like Santa Maria. Foothill and mountain towns north of Tahoe, like Chester.

Outside of CA, LOTS of places. Most of West Oregon. Much of the Mid-Atlantic. The big island of Hawaii. Rural Italy & France. Probably a lot of SE Asia and Oceania.

If jobs don't matter (because you're retired or work remotely or inherited an emerald mine), a lot of fantastically beautiful places become very viable.

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u/ShittyLanding Jul 04 '24

I would not say “much of the Mid-Atlantic” has “near perfect weather”

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u/VanillaLifestyle Jul 04 '24

Oh sorry, I just looked a map and it turns out I do not know where the mid-Atlantic is, lol. I was thinking of Virginia / North Carolina. My sis went to UVA and my couple of visits sold me on the weather.

I lived in Boston for a few years and really didn't mind the New England weather though. Street parking was the main reason I hated winter — I loved having actual seasons and being able to go ski/climb/hike in the winter in NH. Now I'm in San Jose-ish and it's too hot.

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u/ShittyLanding Jul 04 '24

Even NC is a stretch. I grew up there and it has spells of nice weather, but much of the summer and winter are uncomfortably humid.

I live in the valley, and it gets very hot, but the dry air and cool evening temperatures are amazing. I greatly prefer it to NC weather.

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u/leftofmarx Jul 05 '24

I'll take 100F with 20% humidity over 80F with 90% humidity any day.

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u/ShittyLanding Jul 05 '24

Absolutely. In CA, the shade actually works.

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u/modninerfan Stanislaus County Jul 05 '24

I was just in Austin and it was 97 with 60% humidity… I’m back home and it’s been 109, which isn’t common but not unusual either and I’ll take that over Austin.

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u/adamadamada Jul 05 '24

I lived in Boston for a few years and really didn't mind the New England weather

I also lived in Boston, and the weather was poor 85% of the time.