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And all of us recipients appreciate you stopping byQuote:
Originally Posted by frorider
Plenty of people do the commute from grass valley area to Roseville.
As a homeowner, getting home insurance is challenging. Hopefully this is changing. Most major insurance companies can't have new policies here and one main carrier in the area had to drop all policies in 2016 because of the butte and lake fires in 2015. You can have a very fire-safe house but could still have troubles because of being located in the broad brush stroke high hazard area.
Who knew wholesale clubs were so big there.Quote:
Originally Posted by frorider
Must be confusing me with someone else! My Tahoe/SF trips are a direct flight on my G6. I'm well into my first cocktail by the time we pass over the Folsom prison and other attractions in the greater Sacramento area.Quote:
Originally Posted by irul&ublo
Yea, the fiance's job is still up in the air. She is going to start out working exclusively from home for her current company but probably get a local job in December. UC Davis hospital is a likely candidate. Which would make living in Grass Valley a no go. I only will need to commute into Roseville a few days a week, so being further out is a possibility. A big part of why we are looking at Midtown / East Sac is the ease of access to get out to bars, restaurants, etc. since we don't know anyone. But yea, the access to trails, mtn biking etc would be limited. I do like the idea of Auburn or somewhere closer to Tahoe but worried that we are going to have limited options for things to do during the week. If she can find a job further out, that would be a great option.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gerome
I grew up in Grass Valley and lived in Davis for a summer. Both are great. Davis gets really hot in the summer but no more so than Sacto. As much as I love Grass Valley and Nevada City I would not recommend commuting from there. Davis OTOH would be a fantastic choice. It is mostly opposite traffic. It has to be the most under-rated college town in CA.
Be forewarned; if you talk to people who love Sacto, they will be quick to point out it's relative proximity to places you actually want to be (San Francisco, Tahoe, etc.). There's a reason for that - Sacramento blows. It's hot during the summer, it's gloomy and grey during the winter. I suppose that makes all of those nearby desirable places just that much nicer (Grass Valley is an hour away, Tahoe and San Francisco are +2 hours). One thing going for it - It's too far from the Bay Area to make that even an insane commute so housing prices have not gotten ridiculous there.
I've always wanted to live in Rancho Cucamonga. I like the name.
For my next move this will factor in as a top priority. I'm opposite now and never want to be the reverse.Quote:
Originally Posted by boarddad
seriously, when I ended up working in Sacramento 2013, I was living in SF. The reverse commute was rad. I think in the past couple of years though, the weekend warrior drive from SF to Tahoe got even worse. I used to do it every weekend 3 hours each way, now it seems like its 5 hours or better. So two hours to Tahoe is some kind of benefit. Sure, I didn't move here directly by choice, followed a great job. But I now have an awesome house I can afford for my wife and kid, and it feels a little rough listening to my SF friends that don't own, and are in rent controlled places hoping they aren't the next ones to get evicted by the man. And being somewhere not directly by choice, the mid-town nightlife is fun enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackstraw
I don't know about that characterization of the winters. Winters in the valley can be pretty damn good. You can bike, golf- even have a garden as it rarely freezes.Quote:
Originally Posted by boarddad
And I love the hot weather. Ya, 100 plus is pushing it, but there aren't many of those days. And there's plenty of watersports for those days.
And people are definitely commuting to the BA in droves. Prices are skyrocketing in Sac.
Midtown seems pretty hopping and fun.
I'm unclear about the adult and kid-free social lifestyle of auburn. It's definitely a car-oriented town with DUI check points on weekend nights.
In midtown and east sac, you have equal access to northern Tahoe, SLT, and Carson pass areas, which would be nice.
Thirty years ago it was substantially vineyards, now it's 100% suburban hell. The soccer-MILFs there are OK, at least.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timberridge
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Do you mean 50+ years ago? RC, Pomona, Ontario etc was suburban strip mall hell 30 years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by Viva
I wouldn't recommend commuting from Davis to Roseville--between Davis and Sac over the Yolo causeway has gotten bad during commute hours (and on the weekend).
Thirty years ago, well, maybe 35 or so years ago, one could still pick grapes in Cucamonga. And Upland, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by AaronWright
Parts of Pomona are making a come back, at least. Still lots of Cholos, though.
Actually upland was mostly lemon groves, but yeah every day after school we had massive lemon war fights through miles of groves. Still wineries in Ont and Cucamonga in late 70s early 80s. Now Everything completely covered by stripmalls, houses, and freeways. Even the old flood channels and washes from the mountains got built over. Great area as a kid in the mid 70s though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Viva
The dagger finally struck when the 210 was finally completed in the late 90s.
There were still small lemon groves in Downey, of all places, back in the mid 70s. Yeah, I recall the "Lemon Wars". Great fucking times.
[thread drift] ^^^ you guys ever skate at the pipeline?
Hell ya. Opening day and many after that. Only wish we had the board widths nowadays back then. Lots of dogtown guys would be there from time to time which was like watching superheroes in the pipe.
Do i have to start saying "the" in front of highway numbers when we move?Quote:
Originally Posted by mcski
No, that's SoCal thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by neufox47
Our freeways once had names associated with the numbers (e.g, 210 was the Foothill Fwy., 110 was the Harbor Fwy south of the Santa Monica Fwy and called the Pasadena Fwy north of the Santa Monica. Of course east of the 5 (the Golden State Fwy) the Santa Monica Fwy logically becomes the San Bernardino Fwy. South of the Santa Monica, the Golden Gate is called the Santa Ana Fwy.Quote:
Originally Posted by 54-46
All these names could be where the "the" came about. Regardless, highway nomenclature was so much more simple in the old days.
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Originally Posted by Viva
Dave Alvin is from Downey.
Couple of cool things in Sacto--the farmers' market under the freeway downtown every sunday morning all year. This one has a very high ratio of produce stands to olive oil, gourmet cheese, etc. In south Sacramento Hmong farmers rent undeveloped land from developers to grow strawberries to sell by the side of the road. Great ripe berries. This will disappear as the land gets developed and the Hmong kids become doctors. As far as biking goes there is of course the American River bike trail, and people do mountain bike on the equestrian path next to the paved trail. I'm not a mountain biker so I don't know if that's considered good biking; it's flat. (Riding on the paved, 10 ft wide trail I encountered a rattlesnake with its head on the center line and its tail on the edge of the pavement. That's the only way I'd measure a rattlesnake. There are coyotes of course and rumors of mountain lions but I've never seen one.)
Opening day! That's cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by mcski
My aunt+uncle owned it, and I'll bet you remember them. Jeanne was my "cool aunt", and was very hands on at the skatepark.
I lived too far away and wasn't old enough to drive, so I didn't spend as much time there as I would've liked, but I did see some of the "magazine guys" ride the pipe and combi pool.
Six degrees of separation right there.
That's pretty cool! It was def the place for groms to be in the late 70s. Kinda sad when they tore it down. Skateboarding took off again not too long after that too so it would probably still be going.Quote:
Originally Posted by pisteoff
Speaking of small world, I was hitch hiking in southern France during college and met some surfers that couldn't stop talking about the pipeline when they found out I lived near it. Sent them some pipeline stickers when I got home.
Now that we're in full on thread drift to socal...
It was kind of legendary - in that it was the first of it's kind.Quote:
Originally Posted by mcski
Yeah, possible for sure, but I don't think they ever really made much money with the park. Stan still worked his day job, and they had to crowd source the funding for the combi. Plus, within a few years of opening, at least a half dozen similar parks popped up in and around the inland empire. When they opened the park to bmx riders, it was because there wasn't enough skateboard business to keep it going. When the comps fizzled out in the mid/late 80s, so did the privately owned parks.Quote:
Originally Posted by mcski
Plus, the land had increased in value to the point where it didn't make financial sense not to do something else with it.
RIP The Pipeline.
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If your wife is going to work at UC Davis, ^^^ this is pretty good advice. Especially, if you don't have to drive to Roseville more than few days a week (although obviously a longer drive to Tahoe).Quote:
Originally Posted by boarddad
Personally, I'd start with midtown/east sac for proximity to nightlife, etc. My brother lived in one of the 'hoods along 50 toward Folsom, and it was suburban hell.
Found a deer carcass in the bunker of #17 at Ancil Hoffman that had been stashed by a cat. F&G biologists estimated 5 taking up residence in the parkway at any one time.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
Davis is a sweet town, not cheap, but a lot going for it. As long as you're willing to suck up the drive you'll have access to a lot of fun stuff.
UCD Med Center is in East Sacramento, along with several other major hospitals (Sutter, Mercy, and Kaiser are all nearby).Quote:
Originally Posted by pisteoff
Davis is super expensive, only has old shitty homes for sale, and is flat and boring. Don't live here.
So Davis is expensive too? I guess it's all of the bay area to Tahoe now...
#8 on the list of ten most dangerous cities. #braggingrightsQuote:
Originally Posted by TruckeeLocal
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^^ This. It's horrible. People move there and are never heard from again. Or even worse we .... I mean THEY start arguing about the deathly bicycle hazard of placing your landscape trimmings on the street for curbside pickup. And whatever you do, NEVER COME HERE ON PICNIC DAY!Quote:
Originally Posted by DJSapp
I was wondering when some one was going to point out that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the UC Davis med center is not in Davis.
Nor, is the medical schoolQuote:
Originally Posted by PB
Yea, she would definitely be working at the Davis in East Sac.
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Get some Vietnamese food. Ski at squaw. Good luck.
Check out Granite Bay if you seek suburban bliss. Granite Bay CC is one of the best golf courses I've played.
Arden Hills Swim Club might be the coolest swim center in the world. Mark Spitz and all that. Nice neighborhood too.
Nothing wrong with Davis but no reason to prefer it over Sacramento given where you and fiance will be working.
Have you considered the little town of Washington?