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It's the last weekend of the summer and I'm wondering where I can move where there's warm weather all year long?

Never hotter than 90, never colder than 50.

That's my caveat.

Any suggestions?

My first thought is Santa Barbara California.

I guess it was a good guess.

The result is a comfortable year-round average temperature of 64 degrees, with an average maximum of 74 and an average minimum of 56 degrees.

All this means there is no "off-season" in Santa Barbara.. Warm sunshine, beautiful scenery, invigorating, clear, fresh air and congenial people await you year-round.

http://www.santabarbara.com/community/weather/

Thank you!

Also, it's on the ocean! Perfect! That's a very desirable thing! Looks like paradise.

Wonder if I can afford to live there.

Wonder if I can afford to live there.

You're a very talented person, Dor'... I think you can manage.

aww shucks, cecil, you're a dear

unfortunately, no amount of talent will buy me a house if the average cost on the coast of Santa Barbara is almost $1 million... hahahaha!

Just did some googling and landed on a real estate site. Maybe that particular realtor was only selling the expensive ones?

YIKES!

perfect weather... perfect housing... perfect life = megabucks.

'tis the way of the world.... so make your own..?

I used to pass through Santa Barbara all the time. I was reminded of the Twilight Zone where the guy gets off the commuter train in a small town and leaves the rat race behind. I always wanted to park the truck and be a beach bum in Santa Barbara. It is a university town, UC at Santa Barbara. College towns seem like they are always expensive.

Two AM and my mind is spastic from talking to strangers who call me in the lonely American night, so I will ramble a bit if you don't mind.

Maybe religion would help?
I sometimes think of G-d as a real estate broker. who gives and takes away the promised land. Does that make G-d an "Indian Giver"?

Maybe you should find a house you like and walk around it and call it yours. I heard a preacher say that about the land he wanted for a new church. He said it was out of the old testament. (1) Just walk around the perimeter of the land you want and then claim it in the name of the lord.
It's as easy as getting a divorce in Saudi Arabia if you are a man. Just say I divorce you three times. Not sure how that works out for women. Not good I imagine.



Do you want my brother's email address, he is a real estate broker he has aceess to listings all over the country through MLS.

It is a tough time to be trying to buy or sell a house. But if you got faith anything is possible I have heard it said.

(1)

"Rise, walk about the land through its length and its breadth, for to you I will give it."

In the ancient Middle East, walking around a property was a ritual for taking final possession of a piece of land.

National Geographic

Footnotes, no self respecting ramble should go without a footnote

good night
sleep tight

PS to G-d
Do I mock you?
Well you know
"God is not mocked except by believers" St. Anne of Sexton.

Try north central New Mexico, it is the Land of Enchantment after all. No place is ideal but New Mexico comes close with temperate weather (most of the time), great art, great food and great folks.

Silver City is an artists community as are many places there (browse around) and big industry is mostly not around to stink up the places. Some days can be hot but only for a couple of weeks a year and some places can have snow but only for a day or two and then it melts away.

Course, I am biased...I have a little shack in Ruidoso, NM and all of my favorite places in my known world are in that state for New Mexico is more of a state of mind than a state of the USofA. Art is loved there and there are musicians aplenty and the taxes are reasonable, the housing and land can be affordable and most of the time, you can grow your own veggies or buy at the many farmers markets.

Albuquerque is the biggest city but there are many little places that are close to there so you can have it both ways, rural and citified, depends on your leanings.

Besides, you would be close to the Lees and that is a big bonus.

Never hotter than 90, never colder than 50.

I wonder about what they use to talk about in those lands!?

I guess the media here is around 18ºC, but if you trust Darwin don´t come to Santa Fe in summer!

by the ocean in not freezing lands sounds good!

Why move away from the coming cold? Not like you really took advantage of the worth when it was here, you know? Or is that just me? Yeah, probably just me.