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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm looking for an all-California forum real estate. Any tips? Looking to buy in a beautiful but still sizable beachfront small town or city. Think Naples away from L.A. [/quote]

I live in a quintessential Southern California beach town.  Tell me what you're looking for exactly.  I know a lot about the local real estate market. [/quote]

OMG thank you SO much! Even just some areas or towns to visit for a feel would be helpful. FYI San Francisco, Oakland, and L.A. are places I've been too and they're too big for me.

Qualities/requirements:
- Lots of townhomes/rowhouses/condos/smaller SFHs
- Waterfront area nearby - canal/beach
- Extremely walkable area (no need for a car and/or minimal use of an uber)
- Groceries stores IN the community (horizontal mixed use district) 
- Good mix of high quality restaurants and eateries
- Public walking gardens/parks/canals/boardwalks

Heavy preferences for:
- a diverse locale with a good mix of races (preferably not majority minority)
- healthy/crunchy population
- beautiful beach within 15 minutes driving distance
- population smaller than 500,000
- Major airport within 30 minutes

Budget is $1,500,000 for the townhouse (no more than 3 bedrooms) but you can see why I'm looking for a smaller community.

These are some of the types of homes I'd like (preferably in the downtown area of the community/town or right in the walkable area) and I was partial to Naples (LA except I don't get the feeling its truly 'separate' from LA)/Newport Beach. Are there any other small towns on the coast that mimic that look and feel?

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Where is Naples, LA?

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Balboa Island, Newport Beach[/quote]

Thank you PP - Balboa Island is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Wow. Seriously.

I am open to more suggestions here as well as my budget is low for that area but thanks to you - I at least have a great neighborhood to look for places in. [/quote]
You should have asked for small ritzy areas. Plenty of those. [/quote]
Sorry, sarcasm didn't come through. You said diverse area and then said that Balboa is perfect. Balboa is white. LA county is not diverse when it comes to neighborhoods and getting less and less diverse. Did you ever look at the racial heat map?[/quote]
Meant to say LA and adjacent counties.[/quote]

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