1000 reasons

[Maxtor]

There are 1000 reasons to live in California or not to live in California.

Reasons to live in Calif.

1. Winters are mild.
2. Ocean is close.
3. Mountains are close.
4. Desert is close.
5. Wages are normally higher than midwest.

Reasons not to live in Calif.
1. There are 995 reasons not to live in Calif...



I just came back from the DMV...

 

[95_stroker]

There are 1000 reasons to live in California or not to live in California.

Reasons to live in Calif.

1. Winters are mild.
2. Ocean is close.
3. Mountains are close.
4. Desert is close.
5. Wages are normally higher than midwest.

Those were some of the things I too loved about Ca.

Reasons not to live in Calif.
1. There are 995 reasons not to live in Calif...



I just came back from the DMV...

That was one of the things I did not like about Ca, that and about 33,871,648 other reasons.

 

[Tail_Gunner]

Reasons to live in DA U.P.

1. No earthquakes
2. No hurricanes
3. VERY FEW tornadoes
4. plates for my truck only cost about $190 year
5. $165 one time gets a permanent plate for the camper
6. per capita crime rate is very low
7. I can camp and commute back & forth to work
8. Over 4 dozen places to go camping within 3 hours of home
9. Summers are generally pleasant
10. More than a half dozen ski areas. One of the best only 10 minutes from house.
11.



Reasons not to live in DA U.P.
1. Winters can be brutal!

 

[Maxtor]

Reasons to live in DA U.P.

1. No earthquakes
2. No hurricanes
3. VERY FEW tornadoes
4. plates for my truck only cost about $190 year
5. $165 one time gets a permanent plate for the camper
6. per capita crime rate is very low
7. I can camp and commute back & forth to work
8. Over 4 dozen places to go camping within 3 hours of home
9. Summers are generally pleasant
10. More than a half dozen ski areas. One of the best only 10 minutes from house.
11.








Reasons not to live in DA U.P.
1. Winters can be brutal!

Good reasons;
1993 idi turbo diesel F350 dually, in Oregon was $31 per year. In Calif. $290 per year. 2006 F350 PSD in Oregon $168 for four years. In Calif. it is your first born....

 

[Scot]

$480/yr plate on my F-350 in Michigan because I pull a work trailer with it.


Best reason to visit the U.P.

Sledding for a whole day on a weekend and only running into a couple other people I will never ride the lower penninsula again! too crowded!

 

[Crumm]

Reasons to live in DA U.P.

1. No earthquakes
2. No hurricanes
3. VERY FEW tornadoes
4. plates for my truck only cost about $190 year
5. $165 one time gets a permanent plate for the camper
6. per capita crime rate is very low
7. I can camp and commute back & forth to work
8. Over 4 dozen places to go camping within 3 hours of home
9. Summers are generally pleasant
10. More than a half dozen ski areas. One of the best only 10 minutes from house.
11.



Reasons not to live in DA U.P.
1. Winters can be brutal!

Sounds like Alaska with a few changes.

1. Once in a while
2. Same
3. None
4. $100 for two years
5. Camper don't need plates
6. Same
7. Same
8. Same
9. If you call living with 1,000,000,000,000 mosquitoes pleasant then -Same
10. We can ski off the roof of the house
11. If you can keep warm enough

Reasons not

1. Winters are brutal is a understatement

 

[fgtex]

5. Wages are normally higher than midwest.

That is because everything is more expensive, i.e. fuel, houses, taxes.


Costs $80 a year to register the F350 here in Denton Co, Texas

 

[Maxtor]

That is because everything is more expensive, i.e. fuel, houses, taxes.


Costs $80 a year to register the F350 here in Denton Co, Texas

yep.. I remember when we purchased our ranch in Oregon, we thought it was a great price, but locals thought it was way to high. They did not like Kalifornians coming in with money and causing the local property to go up in price. The average house in our area is $300,000. In and around SF it is $600,000. Places in MN. and Ok. are around $58,000. We bought 100 acres in Oregon for the same price as one acre here in Redding. Since we are both retired, and can go anywhere, our stay here in California might be getting shorter. Only problem is that at our ages, we might not do well in the cold climates in the winter. Cold to us is anything lower then +32. My wife is thin, and she dresses like an eskimo now.

 

[DaveBen]

It is much higher than 600,000. Try more like $900,000.

Dave

 

[Maxtor]

It is much higher than 600,000. Try more like $900,000.

Dave

Inflation... by the time I submit the reply, it will probably be higher...I know Santa Barbara is the highest area in California, but I could not even guess what the average house (mansion) cost is there. I once saw a listing for a $52,000,000 house there. That is more than what Bill Gates paid for his house.
I think his was ONLY $48,000,000.
There are many very nice midwest homes in the $200,000 range that can be purchased with only half of what most Californians can sell their houses for. So many retired Californians are selling out and moving to the midwest, paying cash for a house, with a couple hundred thousand left in the bank.