Would you move to Monterey, CA?
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Anonymous
| No because I have family here and not there. |
Anonymous
| Yes!!!! |
Anonymous
| This is a no brainer! Do it!! I’m from there and wish I could move back. The pace of life is so different and California has the best fresh produce. Do it! |
Anonymous
| GO!!!! |
Anonymous
Not a big fan of California, only visited a couple of times. And I hate the outdoors. But even I would admit that Monterey is paradise. 
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Anonymous
| Yes! I would live anywhere on the coast from Santa Barbara up through Monterey. It's lovely. |
Anonymous
You can't get much for under $2M. If it weren't for the COL, I'd move there in a heartbeat. I'm not sure $350K will get you very far unfortunately. |
Anonymous
You can get a nice family home for 1.5. You can get a small house for 800. |
Anonymous
| I'm so jealous. |
Anonymous
Living in Pacific Grove is my fantasy |
Anonymous
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why is Monterey so cheap?
Few high paying jobs in the immediate area? |
Anonymous
The high paying jobs are all in San Jose, Mountain View, Menlo, Cupertino, SF, east Bay etc and the daily commute from Monterey and those areas would be horrible. Some people who work in Cupertino or south bay do live further southwest in Santa Cruz and commute but its painful. For Monterey I second Pacific Grove and Carmel. Carmel has very schools and the area is bigger. If you go inland, you'll find more people with families and kids, regular suburbs. PG is a beautiful beach town but you'll find lost of weekend traffic and travelers, retirees and locals without kids. 350K is fine. If you don't have any equity you may need to buy a smaller house but smaller houses are so much nicer in CA than the DMV. In the DMV the small homes really are ugly shit stacks. In CA, some of the prettiest houses that I've been in and seem are under 2000K feet and don't feel small. In many CA homes, you don't have rooms that you don't use often like an formal living room or separate formal dining room. There is generally less closet space taking up sq footage and fewer small rooms breaking up the house. The weather is nice year round so investing in nice patio furniture and a heater for evenings is a must and gives you an extra room that you'll use all the time. |
Anonymous
| What do you do that Monterrey has more job opportunities? Just out of curiousity- Monterrey isn’t exactly known as a hub for high paying jobs. |
Anonymous
| Love it there! Very pretty, and lots to do. However, I don’t get the sense it’s a great place to raise young kids. It seems like a much older crowd of people who retired there. I’m sure there are young families but it might be something you want to look into before committing to moving there. |
Anonymous
| Run, don't walk. |