Recent content by montereytrader

By now I have excluded Salinas from my list. It is all relative I guess: 1/1000 chance of being killed within a year could be low or high depending on one's point of view. somebody expressed complaints about internet stability in the Santa Cruz/Monterey areas. Are both cable and dsl...

I am considering Santa Cruz or Monterey Areas in Northern California. Still doing my research... http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=175679

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i just need a reasonable house. you can see in one of the previous posts that Pacific Grove offers many houses 2k and even below. moist ocean wind when it is 40 degrees is worse than snow and no wind IMO.

good to know there are problems. i am getting sprint mobile broadband as a backup. how is watsonville as far as crime level? what area of watsonville is better/safer to live in?

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yes, i heard there are ton of homeless hang out downtown (probably mostly former traders :) )

Sell 'em, thank you for the helpful info. Good luck nailing ES, i am rooting for you, man! btw, is Santa Cruz any warmer?

i see many houses in this price range. in Pacific Grove, as suggested above, the prices are quite low compared several other areas. there actually a lot under 2K houses listed on craigslist...

you guys have no clue. we are in the middle of jobless high PE recovery - nothing wrong with that. :D

heheh, can't afford to retire. i will move there for 2-3 years due to family situation and flexibility of being a trader. i really would like to check the area out to know if maybe i would like to move there more permanently at some further time in the future. right now i am not dependent on...

ouch! same deal further inland (~10-20 miles)?

Pacific Grove looks very nice. but what about tourists in the summer? i imagine it gets crowded so close to the beach. i looking into Monterey and Santa Cruz vicinities but can't figure out how much i should live away from the beach not to deal with tourists.

I will be relocating to the Monterey Bay Area (CA) in the next couple of months. I plan to rent ~2 BR house 2,000-2,300/mo range. Any suggestions as far best areas to live in? Basically, I want peace and quiet so that I could concentrate on trading. Right now I'm trading full time and...