I don't know if there is a question here as much as just jotting down my thoughts and working through them. The situation is my wife got a job in June of last year that is based out of Santa Cruz. She loves this job, and luckily has been able to work remotely from Georgia. There is no timeline that says she has to work on site (at least yet), but since then she has wanted to work on site and some of her coworkers frequently bring up how great it is here and how much we will love it, while some coworkers have actually moved away from here to work remotely.
I am currently on a 2 week property scouting trip in Santa Cruz and its my first time here, and I gotta say, I am not impressed at all. The homelessness here is really bad. It has this odd small Florida town from the 90's vibe going, and there is just homeless people intertwined and it feels over crowded.
And then the biggest red flag is the cost of almost everything being at least twice as expensive if not 4 times (when it comes to properties). I honestly wouldn't mind moving from Atlanta, but honestly moving out here feels like a downgrade even without factoring in the cost differences. I feel like delusional people from San Francisco buy properties down here for these prices and keep the prices high. The costs do not reflect the reality of this place. I cannot logically justify spending 800k on a house just because the weather is better when my bigger and much nicer house in Georgia that has everything I could want around it was 125k or 650$ a month (now valued at 200k).
Yes there are some beautiful sites to see. You have this very cool redwood trees and lots of nature hiking, and cliff views of the ocean, though the ocean is freezing and kelp ridden. Honestly this feels like the place I would visit for a trip to get away for a weekend, but probably not revisit. Definitely not a place I would live.
Submitted August 29, 2021 at 01:12PM by ImpossibleZero https://ift.tt/3zu3yQv
