Bay Arean
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Grass Valley/area is awesome. Start looking into homeowners insurance now- its virtually impossible to buy (there) and you'll likely wind up with the state run fire insurance program. You could call a broker or two up there for the full scoop- but your escrow won't close without coverage.
Edit- lots of folks beat me to it
Gosh is there any land left in and around Grass Valley anymore? It just really seems filled up. Because the lots are bigger, you cant say dense but the traffic sure is dense. I hate the heat up thar in the summer. There are large areas of very hot zones on rusty red soil that just ain't that attractive. I love to visit Nevada City but it's probably out of reach. Tons of Bay Area peeps up there.
I wouldn't live in Cloverdale if you paid me. You see, I did live in Cloverdale in the 70s. Nothing but bad memories. There were Satanists up at the Preston place, Florida hippies in those days. But, its way better since freeway bypass I would imagine. Everyone I knew from there moved away, that's how great it was. Some very troubled young people up there when I was around. It's almost like a little piece of Lake County but prettier. I'd rather live with the hippies in Forestville or something than that noise. Healdsburg got ruined by the wealthy. It was a sleepy Mexican town when I was little, with the bigger farm and ranch owners on the outskirts. The Aven theater only showed movies in Spanish! :afm199:afm199:afm199 If you don't commute, Hopland might be interesting, I dunno. Still too damn hot. A person might be able to get something in Geyserville? Freeway noise but it's kind of cool location wise.
Back south, they took the feedstore in Alexander Valley and made it into a high price sandwich shop. We used to buy hay, and get sodas from the cooler. Now, the Alexander Valley is like the frickin south of France. Anything within two hours of SFO is pretty much out of reach price-wise to retire to...Pretty sad.
Probably the only hope of it ever being affordable is that all of it is in danger of getting incinerated every year or we lose our Tech Hub thing.
I am laughing of course. Do what you want...
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