Mountain Living

Keep a weeks worth of food(and means to cook it!), water, booze, etc. on hand at all times in winter.

Mitchell wrote: You are probably right. My $1100/mo studio, going rate for my 'hood in LA, has certainly warped my perception of living costs. I haven't read much about Yucaipa, good or bad, so I will have to do some research.

1100/studio.. man that's cheap. Must be the ghetto. They're going for $1500-1700 in seattle..

Fueled by Caffeine wrote:

Mitchell wrote: You are probably right. My $1100/mo studio, going rate for my 'hood in LA, has certainly warped my perception of living costs. I haven't read much about Yucaipa, good or bad, so I will have to do some research.

1100/studio.. man that's cheap. Must be the ghetto. They're going for $1500-1700 in seattle..

In koreatown, many would agree with your suspicion. It has nice areas though.

When I visited seattle a few months back, I was blown away by how many construction cranes I saw. Looks like the economy isn't doing too poorly.

Update: I was in the area, so I made the drive "up the hill" just after sunset. Just as I made it to Crestline, the fog was rolling in like some horror movie, and I shudder to imagine the whole 15 mile mountainside drive shrouded in thick fog. Big 'ol nope. No thank you.

Mitchell wrote:

Fueled by Caffeine wrote:

Mitchell wrote: You are probably right. My $1100/mo studio, going rate for my 'hood in LA, has certainly warped my perception of living costs. I haven't read much about Yucaipa, good or bad, so I will have to do some research.

1100/studio.. man that's cheap. Must be the ghetto. They're going for $1500-1700 in seattle..

In koreatown, many would agree with your suspicion. It has nice areas though. When I visited seattle a few months back, I was blown away by how many construction cranes I saw. Looks like the economy isn't doing too poorly.

Ohh the state bird.

Mitchell wrote: Update: I was in the area, so I made the drive "up the hill" just after sunset. Just as I made it to Crestline, the fog was rolling in like some horror movie, and I shudder to imagine the whole 15 mile mountainside drive shrouded in thick fog. Big 'ol nope. No thank you.

I was gonna weigh in on fog before but never got around to it. Similar issue around here, not the kinda mountain height you referred to (think Fallingwater area here) but enough to make me rethink living there for the time being. Snow is not an issue, might as well double the lowland prediction for the mountain tho. Ice, OTOH is the real bitch. Not that the highway dept. can't treat it but it's usually treated after the first couple of accidents. Don't wanna be that guy.

Still wanna live there some day, maybe retirement. Resto old sports cars and shoot squirrels from my porch.

Mitchell wrote: Update: I was in the area, so I made the drive "up the hill" just after sunset. Just as I made it to Crestline, the fog was rolling in like some horror movie, and I shudder to imagine the whole 15 mile mountainside drive shrouded in thick fog. Big 'ol nope. No thank you.

It's really funny how those types of details would not be noticed or considered by most folks, although I do think that sometimes those type of things can really ruin an experience of a place.

For example, I've noticed that I need substantial open space near my residence. I can live in the city as long as its near a big park. Not one of these little 1-acre deals, but honest to goodness open space. I didn't notice this until a lived a few places where the nearest park I could not walk to from my house.

Similarly, I used to think living near a highway would suck, and living against a highway does suck, but living someplace where the highway is a mile away is actually really convenient.

fasted58 wrote: Still wanna live there some day, maybe retirement. Resto old sports cars and shoot squirrels from my porch.

Hey, that there is Arkansan Livin'. Maybe that's why half the people here are from California.