Thursday, July 10, 2008

Why Leave Santa Cruz County???

I get asked this a lot.

I'd love to stay. It's a beautiful place, and the weather is marvelous. This week, while most of northern California is sweltering, we're enjoying mid 70's with a little fog in the morning, and sun by noon. We have two acres - rural enough not to have neighbors in sight, urban enough to have paved roads and a water company (if you've ever had to pay for and maintain a well, you know what I mean).

I can afford to live here with a tech job. But they're almost all gone from the county, and I don't want to do the cube any more even if they weren't. Commuting would mean at least an hour - maybe more - each way, at $5 a gallon. Nope.

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