Mon 10 Mar 2008
(GREAT movie, by the way. LOVE that movie.)
If Mr. W gets his way, this will soon be our backyard:
We drove around and looked at houses in the above-pictured area on Sunday. Many properties are within our price range, the area is extremely nice and upscale, and the people there are freakishly nice. I watched a teenage boy with his girlfriend thank a driver as he crossed the street in a parking area and the driver stopped to let the boy and his girlfriend cross in front of him. Whoa. Where am I, in Hawaii? Where are people this laid back in Southern California? Incidentally, this area is ranked as the #1 safest city in the US by the FBI, to give curious people a tiny little clue. I don’t want to say where or make any announcements in case I jinx anything.
But hey, great area, affordable for us, it’s like being at the ocean without the nasty beachside cities or freezing temperatures, and okay, it’s far from work, but if we figure out a way to carpool it’ll be quality bonding time on the road!
nice! and of course, that’s a private sand court, and the house has its own boat slip, right?! 😉
uh…we’re working on that. 🙂
*crossing fingers*
Wow! This looks so beautiful and reminds be of Balboa or Belmont Shores. Can’t wait until you find the one and we get to visit. Hey, if you need help packing or moving… just let us know (by “us”, I mean Jay and I, the kitties are pussy and won’t lift a thing!)
Thanks for the offer, but does Jay know you volunteered him?
I have to admit, Dodo’s kind of a pussy when it comes to hefty lifting, too.
Not trying to start anything but Bat would be PISSED if I volunteered him to help move somebody. Of course he would say the puppies are more the welcome to!! ha
I love the houses in the background. I thinking I should work in a courthouse rather than a stinky hospital. If it gets you a house like THAT!
*eyes opening up wide*
I started a google search to see what the FBI’s safeest town and without opening the links, all I see is NJ and Maine… thank goodness I know you are not moving there. I am going to start to open the links and check out which city you are talking about.
Flat Coke – the houses you see in the background cost about $2.7 million. If you find out about a job that’s hiring for that kind of salary, please let me know, too. 🙂
Vanessa – I was told about this town’s safety rank by Mr. W and my old bailiff. Maybe they were mistaken, or maybe it’s the safest in the state and not the country, or maybe it WAS the #1 safest last year but not this year. Hmm.
Hey I think I know where this is. Is there a biiig lake there with docks and various folks with boats on there? And are they all electric? And is there a restaurant where you can bring your boat up and dock and eat there? I went boating around there awhile back.
That is a really nice area.
James – There are actually lots of lakes, but the one pictured here IS the biiig lake. And we did notice that everything was either electric or wind- or man-powered. We were wondering whether that was part of the lake rules, cuz SOMETHING had to explain the absence of Sea-doos. But as for the docking the boat to eat, I’m not sure I’ve seen that restaurant, so either I’m unaware of its existence, or we’re talking about 2 different areas.