If you want to move and still be within a day’s car ride from San Diego, then here’s your weather scorecard from one of the hottest days of 2025.
Hopefully you have visions of having us sell your house and then paying cash for a newer one-story up in the hills somewhere overlooking the lake. We can help you with that! Check out Big Bear/Lake Arrowhead and northern Arizona.
We lived in Phoenix when I was a kid during the 1970s. The 117 degrees is no joke and it’s best to go on vacation out-of-state in August and September – and the rest of the year is usually under 100 degrees. But it’s a dry heat!
Just don’t look at this map and say, “That’s it, I’m never moving!”
We just did the desert r/t drive through hellish summer temps…carlsbad-phoenix-sedona-across northern AZ-telluride(the only place under 100!)-denver and back through UT-st george-vegas-inland empire home. THATS IT…..
LOL!
Half Moon Bay high is 62 today.
> But it’s a dry heat!
In the 70s Phoenix was a dry heat. Nothing like a few million people with their swamp coolers, A/C, breathing (really), landscaping, and water features/pools to turn a dry heat into a sauna.
The nice places in AZ are already discovered. Most of NM as well.
The nice places in AZ are already discovered. Most of NM as well.
A theory to ponder – all the nice places have gotten so expensive that the benefit of cashing your lottery ticket by selling the long-time residence in California and sneaking off to remote hideaways in killer locations out-of-state has dwindled. The whole idea of downsizing might have run its course.
If you sell here for $2,000,000 but have to spend $1,250,000 to get what you want out of state, it spoils the fun. It’s not the BIG WIN; instead it feels almost like a sideways move because movers want to live on the money left over after buying the replacement home for cash.
Now that these potential sellers might not be able to sell their house here for their aspirational price, they might forget the whole thing and go back to the couch.
What a mess.
Cashing in your supposed SoCal lottery tix only to pay taxes on your +500k winnings and then face property taxes 3x previous on the new homestead doesn’t make sense.
Much better to slide sideways in California with a tax basis transfer.
Much better to slide sideways in California with a tax basis transfer.
Yes – great idea! Bring your old tax basis with you and save!
You better have a really good reason to move though, because it’s going to cost you:
1. Capital-gains tax (might get a break here)
2. Closing costs (six figures)
3. Moving costs (can approach six figures with the inconvenience penalty of the double-move or bridge loan)
4. Sorting through multi-generations of stuff
5. Getting familiar with a new town re: doctors, etc.
6. Marriage counseling
You suggested Woodland, CA (temp today was 93 degrees) which I love because it isn’t far from major metro areas. It will probably take going that far and farther north to find a home cheap enough to make it all worth it.