Unreal Estate Game: California (Southern)

[Rain Man]

Assume that you idly buy a state lottery ticket while getting a doughnut at 7/11, and voila! You're a winner! You win your choice of one the five houses that will be shown.

I'll give you five houses in a state, and you vote on the house you would take.

Background rules:

Assume that your job situation won't need to change - you can find an identical job or work from home or whatever, so jobs don't matter.

Consider the house itself and the location and anything else that's important to you (schools, restaurants, lot size, etc.). Feel free to do a google map search to check out the neighborhood and the area.

You cannot sell the home. You can live in it as long as you like, but when you move out, it reverts back to the state as a prize for a future winner.

All houses will generally be in the $900,000 to $1 million price range.

All maintenance and utilities and taxes are cost-neutral compared to your current home.

If you wouldn't move into any of these homes, you can instead accept a cash prize of $50,000 (tax free).

Today's state is the southern half of California. Here are your five houses:

Laguna Beach - http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...1_M12787-40236

Long Beach - http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...3_M12510-40484

Palm Springs - http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...2_M18387-50197

San Diego - http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...1_M15629-17870

Thousand Oaks - http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...0_M20595-52621

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

Has anyone ever lived in a high-rise? Maybe the view makes it worth it but I feel like having to take the elevator every time to and from your house would evolve into such a ****ing hassle. Probably adds like 20 minutes to your trip every time you leave the house depending on how high up you live.

I haven't lived high in a high rise, but I've lived on the sixth floor and when I dated my wife she was living on the 15th floor. I never had an issue with it. I do think that if you get too high you can start disconnecting from the feel of the neighborhood, though.

[Simply Red]

I've often shared my Long Beach approval w/ our so cal chief planeteers.

[displacedinMN]

Prob Palm Springs. I have been there a few times and liked the lack of humidity factor. But I could not live there in the summer. I would have to have another home somewhere else.

[ChiefRocka]

Laguna. Hot as **** in Palm Springs, San Diego a close 2nd.

[Katipan]

I've lived in all those places except San Diego.

Thousand Oaks is in the porn capital.

In case that helps.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Katipan

I've lived in all those places except San Diego.

Thousand Oaks is in the porn capital.

In case that helps.

I bet that would have changed the voting.

[lewdog]

Whichever one is closest to Dane.

No question there.

[Bowser]

I think San Diego is the only one I wouldn't really consider, and that is a tough call knowing it's still San Diego and in the middle of the downtown nightlife.

All five are pretty choice, but man, a million bucks doesn't travel as far in SoCal. And check out that old record player in the second pic in Long Beach. Nice.

[Katipan]

Originally Posted by lewdog

Whichever one is closest to Dane.

No question there.

He's the reason it's the porn capital.