Stupid stupid thread anyway. But consider the source.

You couldn’t pay me to live in California. Any part of it. If money were no object, I’d buy me about 200 acres, couple of stocked ponds, a driveway about a mile long with a gate at the road.

Trespassers will be shot on sight. No questions asked.


200 acres of America that’s 100% Democrat free

(03-02-2023 03:23 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(03-02-2023 02:58 PM)Brookes Owl Wrote:  Let me get this straight... People want to live in a place that has 300+ days of sun, mild weather, easy access to ocean, mountains, national parks, etc... IF they have sufficient money to buy whatever they want, live anyplace they choose, and insulate themselves from inconvenience, disruption, almost any kind of adversity.

That's stunning news. Truly groundbreaking reporting there.

any wonder why its so damn expensive? One of the best places on the planet to live…

Only if you have enough money not to care how expensive it is.... and 'the world' is a big place., Maybe you should get out more. There is much more to life than beaches and Disney, smog traffic and living 'on top' of your neighbors.

Where do YOU live, Mensa??

(03-02-2023 04:12 PM)VA49er Wrote:  Well, if money was no object I'd be married to two supermodels. Now, back to reality. This thread is silly.

This.... and be cheating on them with a third and they wouldn't leave you

The other 4 have been to Los Angeles.

Beat me to it Owl. The other four are refugees from L.A.

As someone who lived in the OC for a few years, the worst thing about LA is it’s in California. If LA was in Texas, 5 of 5 would want to move there.

(03-02-2023 08:27 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  As someone who lived in the OC for a few years, the worst thing about LA is it’s in California. If LA was in Texas, 5 of 5 would want to move there.

no doubt … those ‘people’ are a problem in my world…

honestly, one couldn’t pay me enough to live there…

#jarooneyCentral

(03-02-2023 07:57 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  Beat me to it Owl. The other four are refugees from L.A.

They live in Texas now.

If money were no object, I dang sure wouldn't live in California.. I mean who wants to live in a coastal state with all this climate change and rising waters?

Hilton Head or bust.....

I spent a week in LA in 2016. It was unseasonably cool for June. Never got above 80. There's about 3 weeks worth of cool stuff to do there, then it's meh.

The homeless are literally everywhere. The houses look like shanty towns hobbled together. The roads are clogged up nearly 24 hours a day. Everything was about $3 to $5 more than back home.

The day we left the temperature returned to a "normal" 105 in the shade. The news outlets were reminding folks that they could die if they stayed outside too long.

I'll keep on here in Carolina until the politicians and the yankees ruin it to.

Okay.

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(03-03-2023 08:29 AM)49RFootballNow Wrote:  I spent a week in LA in 2016. It was unseasonably cool for June. Never got above 80. There's about 3 weeks worth of cool stuff to do there, then it's meh.

The homeless are literally everywhere. The houses look like shanty towns hobbled together. The roads are clogged up nearly 24 hours a day. Everything was about $3 to $5 more than back home.

The day we left the temperature returned to a "normal" 105 in the shade. The news outlets were reminding folks that they could die in that temperature.

I'll keep on here in Carolina until the politicians and the yankees ruin it to.

Average high temp in LA is 79 in June, 2016 was a strong El Niño year which drives heat waves through Southern California. Get out of that LA bowl and head towards San Diego and the average high drops down to 73 for June.

(03-03-2023 09:00 AM)U_of_Elvis Wrote:  Average high temp in LA is 79 in June, 2016 was a strong El Niño year which drives heat waves through Southern California. Get out of that LA bowl and head towards San Diego and the average high drops down to 73 for June.

Avg Temp variation east and west of the 5 is probably 10 degrees... so 79 on one side, 89 on the other. The winds are also very different. Coastal breezes on the west, desert breezes on the east. Very different experiences.

When 99% of people think of LA, they think of the exceptionally expensive places... which are beautiful... and everyone wants them... and they cost a fortune to build and maintain... that is why they are expensive. They don't mean 'LA as a whole'. None of these people are dreaming of Compton or East LA.

So the entire premise is ignorant. 20% of people, most of whom have probably never seen outside of their own state... would want to live where billionaires currently live?? No ****. Much of the other 80% probably want to live in OTHER places where billionares live. Billionaires live there because nobody else could afford to buy, build and maintain them.... They'd end up housing 100 people with 80 cars where two people and 3 cars currently live just to pay the utilities.... and as a result, it wouldn't be as beautiful

(03-03-2023 09:54 AM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(03-03-2023 09:00 AM)U_of_Elvis Wrote:  Average high temp in LA is 79 in June, 2016 was a strong El Niño year which drives heat waves through Southern California. Get out of that LA bowl and head towards San Diego and the average high drops down to 73 for June.

Avg Temp variation east and west of the 5 is probably 10 degrees... so 79 on one side, 89 on the other. The winds are also very different. Coastal breezes on the west, desert breezes on the east. Very different experiences.

When 99% of people think of LA, they think of the exceptionally expensive places... which are beautiful... and everyone wants them... and they cost a fortune to build and maintain... that is why they are expensive. They don't mean 'LA as a whole'. None of these people are dreaming of Compton or East LA.

So the entire premise is ignorant. 20% of people, most of whom have probably never seen outside of their own state... would want to live where billionaires currently live?? No ****. Much of the other 80% probably want to live in OTHER places where billionares live. Billionaires live there because nobody else could afford to buy, build and maintain them.... They'd end up housing 100 people with 80 cars where two people and 3 cars currently live just to pay the utilities.... and as a result, it wouldn't be as beautiful

If you get all the way over the hills into the inland empire 89 is about right. We stay in Manhattan Beach when we are out there so generally much cooler.

But the gist here is “If money was no object for that individual” then yeah no one is picking anything but big money real estate. No one is going to want to live out in Mira Lima with the cattle and Amazon warehouses.

That Carlsbad to Tory Pines stretch down there is much nicer to me than the Manhattan Beach / Hermosa Beach / Redondo beach area and you can still get into San Diego or Orange County for whatever you need. We may spend a year in Carlsbad once we get the kids through college and get it out of our system.

(03-03-2023 10:13 AM)U_of_Elvis Wrote:  But the gist here is “If money was no object for that individual” then yeah no one is picking anything but big money real estate. No one is going to want to live out in Mira Lima with the cattle and Amazon warehouses.

That Carlsbad to Tory Pines stretch down there is much nicer to me than the Manhattan Beach / Hermosa Beach / Redondo beach area and you can still get into San Diego or Orange County for whatever you need. We may spend a year in Carlsbad once we get the kids through college and get it out of our system.

Your 'yeah' comment is what makes this thread stupid... It is only compounded by the fact that only 20% of people chose LA.... which is one of the most iconic places for the wealthy there is.

I suspect most of the other 80% was some combination of Hawaii, Miami, NYC, Aspen, Yellowstone or places like that.... with perhaps 5% being places in the middle of nowhere with cows, but no Amazon warehouses.... and then maybe another 20% of well traveled and informed people who have visited and fell in love with some more obscure (to the average person) place like Lake Norman.

This is really sort of a 'duh' thread. Seriously, probably 60% of the population has never left their state and only know of these places what they've seen on TV. Apparently in LA, you have hot, slutty lifeguards running in slow motion on the beach. That hasn't been my experience btw. Most of the really hot women in LA aren't working

If money were no object, I would probably live exactly where I do. Life is hard trapped between a golf course and a lake, but somebody has to do it and I volunteer.

1 in 8 live in CA now About half of those llve in LA.

(03-03-2023 10:21 AM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(03-03-2023 10:13 AM)U_of_Elvis Wrote:  But the gist here is “If money was no object for that individual” then yeah no one is picking anything but big money real estate. No one is going to want to live out in Mira Lima with the cattle and Amazon warehouses.

That Carlsbad to Tory Pines stretch down there is much nicer to me than the Manhattan Beach / Hermosa Beach / Redondo beach area and you can still get into San Diego or Orange County for whatever you need. We may spend a year in Carlsbad once we get the kids through college and get it out of our system.

Your 'yeah' comment is what makes this thread stupid... It is only compounded by the fact that only 20% of people chose LA.... which is one of the most iconic places for the wealthy there is.

I suspect most of the other 80% was some combination of Hawaii, Miami, NYC, Aspen, Yellowstone or places like that.... with perhaps 5% being places in the middle of nowhere with cows, but no Amazon warehouses.... and then maybe another 20% of well traveled and informed people who have visited and fell in love with some more obscure (to the average person) place like Lake Norman.

This is really sort of a 'duh' thread. Seriously, probably 60% of the population has never left their state and only know of these places what they've seen on TV. Apparently in LA, you have hot, slutty lifeguards running in slow motion on the beach. That hasn't been my experience btw. Most of the really hot women in LA aren't working

The setup Oprah has in Hawaii is nice. She has 100+ acres on the hills above Wailea.

There was a 3600 acre ranch on the other side of Haleakala from there marketed last year for around $100M. It’s on the dry side and more remote but if “money is no object” 3600 acres of Maui is nice.

Michael Dell has a pretty good setup going. Wailea, Austin, and his NCY place was the highest private residence in NYC until they build another tall skinny skyscraper next to it on the south side of the park. He ordered a 787 private jet but I don’t know if he ever took delivery. Either way, a jet with legs for AUS to OGG like a Global Express or Gulfstream combined with those three residences is pretty good “money is no object” living. Throw in an Aspen house for good measure.

(03-03-2023 12:42 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  If money were no object, I would probably live exactly where I do. Life is hard trapped between a golf course and a lake, but somebody has to do it and I volunteer.

I probably would stay put also Owl. I bought a vacation/retirement home on the ICW last year and its made my wife happy being able to go there within 30 minutes. She spends every weekend there. I have a lot of friends in my town and I would miss my golf buddies. I go every afternoon at 5 to my club (an old style 9 hole CC) and have a cocktail with the guys and play at least twice a week with these old coots. At 62 I really don't want to start over somewhere else. Life is good the way it is.