We're moving to Bonny Doon

OK. It happened like this...

We went off to Sea Ranch on vacation. While we were there, we got to see open space and enjoy it. We got to have a more open house that had a view. We also decided that we needed to move out of our house in Palo Alto to capture more of what we were getting up there. We talked about having me move to another job and we started talking about other towns/cities. We decided that we needed to be near some water (read: ocean) so places like Kansas were out. We've played around with the idea of moving to Austin, but places like Seattle, Portland, etc. seemed more appealing. The prospect of leaving my job didn't really appeal to me, but I'm willing to do that if we could find the right location...

So, when we got home I started looking at jobs and houses. Jobs are tricky. I want to continue working with Macs, so it limits things a bit. Houses are easier. I know about mlslistings. :-)

After tweaking things a bit, I found that if you want to buy a decent sized family house on more than 1/2 acre in the south bay (for under $1,000,000), you're gonna end up in Gilroy, Morgan hill San Martin, Los Gatos (mountains) or Santa Cruz..

Hmmm. I lived in Scotts Valley in the mid seventies and I attended UCSC, plus my sister lives in Santa Cruz. The Commute isn't *awful* Wouldn't hurt to look....

A Bunch of homes

Ok. We need some sunshine, so Bolder Creek, Felton, Ben Lomond are out...
We need some space in the house so anything below 2,000 square feet is out. (There doesn't seem to be an html entity for the squarefoot symbol!)
Watsonville is kinda far ...
Price can't be too high... (We're not buying this, this, or this!)
Sharp eyes and a lot of scanning...

Hmmm. How's this?

Very nice indeed... OK, so we go up and look at it. All four of us. There are three horses that currently live there, the place is sunny, has all the rooms we are looking for (although not *exactly* the right configuration or size.

I'll get to the point. We put a bid in on the house and now we're in Escrow!

Our Pictures (with their stuff)
House layout (based on quick interior measurements)
Location (maps.yahoo.com. You may want to zoom out to figure out where it is...)

Yay!

Coming soon.... Selling our current home.