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> Brings LOTS of money. The MEDIAN home in Santa Barbara is $800,000 
> and I just saw the stats for podunk Paso Robles---- around $350,000! 
> Now these are the medians and NOT WITH ACREAGE! You can still find 
> land cheaper in the central desert area but it may be too hot in 
> summer to ride your horse (Have to travel to Morrow Bay in summer 
> from Paso to escape 100 degree weather). I'd relocate myself FROM CA 
> if I could figure out how to afford to move my 24 horses!
> Write to our new progressive governor and see if he can terminate 
> these ridiculously high land prices!
> Good luck!
> Bette

Well, if people stopped wanting to move here (and stopped reproducing 
<g>) the pressure on land would not be as intense.

To find relatively cheap land, go where the jobs aren't or the 
climate isn't ideal -- Antelope Valley is one place.  Yes, you don't 
ride in the middle of the day most summer days (although it still is 
better than Phoenix or Tucson in Arizona), but go to the valley 
slopes (Phelan, for instance) a thousand feet above the valley floor 
and it is cooler.  Otherwise, you ride in the early evening and it's 
nice -- I've done it.  During the winter while those of us on the 
coastal slopes are whining about the rain and adobe mud, the folks in 
the high desert are out conditioning for all the winter and spring 
rides. <g>

Another promising area is the western  Sierras -- it's developing, 
but I know several people who have cashed out their homes in the Bay 
area or Central Coast, and are happy as can be in  Gold Country.
--
Lynn Kinsky     Santa Ynez, CA
http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky


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