01-17-2011, 05:53 PM
Greg,
Ditto on the Golden State. What made it so wonderful, the natural beauty, year-long growing season, cosmopolitan living, etc. is now tarnished by corporate greed, overpopulation, and smog. Add racial tension and the current economic crisis, plus an impending energy crisis and environmental degredation, and the land of fruits, flakes and nuts isn't a very fun place to be anymore. My wife's siblings still live there and like it fine, but I'm very happy in the Pacific Northwest, even with our wet winters.
Wherever you end up, don't give up hope on a good space for trains. Make an ideal wish list and an absolute will-not-budge list and hope for something in between. Our recent move brought me into a space that I wouldn't consider ideal but it's indoors (climate control!) and very workable. I also have a supportive spouse who makes great suggestions from time to time like turning our old computer cabinet into an airbrush spray booth. This means I have to move it BACK upstairs after recently wrestling it downstairs, but hey, I get an indoor painting space! Woohoo!
Good luck on the house hunt!
Galen
Ditto on the Golden State. What made it so wonderful, the natural beauty, year-long growing season, cosmopolitan living, etc. is now tarnished by corporate greed, overpopulation, and smog. Add racial tension and the current economic crisis, plus an impending energy crisis and environmental degredation, and the land of fruits, flakes and nuts isn't a very fun place to be anymore. My wife's siblings still live there and like it fine, but I'm very happy in the Pacific Northwest, even with our wet winters.
Wherever you end up, don't give up hope on a good space for trains. Make an ideal wish list and an absolute will-not-budge list and hope for something in between. Our recent move brought me into a space that I wouldn't consider ideal but it's indoors (climate control!) and very workable. I also have a supportive spouse who makes great suggestions from time to time like turning our old computer cabinet into an airbrush spray booth. This means I have to move it BACK upstairs after recently wrestling it downstairs, but hey, I get an indoor painting space! Woohoo!
Good luck on the house hunt!
Galen
I may not be a rivet counter, but I sure do like rivets!