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Originally Posted by Tiffanni
SANTA CRUZ sounds like what you are looking for.
We have mountains & the ocean!! Lots of adorable shops and a..umm...unique environment. lol
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That is what I would have said or anywhere along the Central Coast. Smaller seaside cities with mountains right there, great quaint downtowns with shops, cafes and art galleries with a cosmopolitan feel but MUCH lower cost of living and better public schools. Anyplace between Carpenteria and Santa Cruz fits (If you leave out way expensive Santa Barbara and Monticito)
We live in LA and while I love it I would move up the coast in a heartbeat if dh had work. It is just crazy expensive here and the school situation is a nightmare. The other place that is interesting is the inland valleys just in from the coast where more of the high end agriculture is (wine, horses etc) like the Santa Ynez Valley, Napa, Sonoma and Mendicino Counties where the cost of living is REALLY low you are just over the mountains to the beach (20-40 minutes) and you again have an increasingly diverse population.
Now if money is no object here is where I would live
Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles, California
Like Malibu it is where the ocean meets the mountains but it is less rural and isolated. It has a real downtown town (with a small town feel) and good public schools. VERY kid friendly but housing is spendy. I just looked at a tear-down in the village (3 bed 1 bath 900 sf older home) that was $1.25 million. Great neighborhood though