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The traffic around the northern part of the City of San Diego is manageable – and it may be worth considering a move further out if your only objection is rush hour: 

For those of you who wonder if it takes an expert to complete a major remodel – buying an old fixer and adding a second story to get a good ocean view – here is the before-and-after video of a house re-build in Old Carlsbad. 

The last four minutes is the owner talking about the project:

As seen at W.C.’s blog – Turko’s first report was 11 years ago!

The Leucadia Blog’s take on it?

The city has mis-manged the park (and everything else) for years – link.

Here is the map link:

The address is 3518 Stockton Place, Carlsbad 92010 (near Hope School/Calaveras Park):

A moment at Windansea Beach in La Jolla, plus a snippet of a recent 2-hour show:

Virtually everyone in America has had to find a way to cope, or else:

From the U-T:

Hat tip to JD for sending this in from the latimes.com:

For a clue to why California is losing its allure as a place to settle down, just ask Jennifer McCluer, who moved out of California in 2007 after she obtained her license in skin care.

Unable to afford Orange County’s sky-high rents, she opted for Portland, Ore. “A big motivator was that I lived with roommate after roommate after roommate,” said McCluer, 30. “Friends said you could probably live on your own up here. The rent was a huge deal for me.”

McCluer would like to move back, but it’s still too expensive. “It’s really difficult,” McCluer said. “I’ve given myself 11/2 to two years to save money.”

Recent census figures show the state is losing more Californians like McCluer than it is attracting from other parts of the U.S. And the trend toward out-migration is looking less like a blip than a long-term condition.

The proportion of Californians who had moved here from out of state reached a 100-year low of about 20% in 2010, and the decade measured by the most recent census was the first in a century in which the majority of Californians were native-born.

The demographics of California today more closely resemble those of 1900 than of 1950: It is a mostly home-grown population, whose future depends on the children of immigrants and their children, said William Frey, a demographer and senior fellow at Brookings Institution.

“We used to say California, here we come,” said Frey. “That now has flipped.”

Experts point to various causes of the turnaround, most of them rooted in a flagging economy. But exorbitant housing prices — too high for many struggling Californians despite a burst housing bubble — still play a role.

“There’s a lot of concern about driving out working-class families,” said Hans Johnson of the Public Policy Institute of California.

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