Placerville: Can't go wrong for foothill living - 7/11/2022

We've lived in PV for over 20 years, having moved from the LA area. We chose to move here while working with the intent on retiring here and commuted to Sacramento to finish our careers. No regrets! The area is balanced (politically and economically) despite being conservative-leaning (not a bad thing) and overall, our experience is everyone is friendly and respectful. It's within an hour of Lake Tahoe (skiing and Sierra hiking), outstanding foothill wineries and a short commute to San Francisco, Carmel, Napa, Yosemite Valley and the coast. It gets hot (100* in the summer days, low humidity) but cools off (60* at night with a delta breeze). Restaurants, stores and conveniences are mid-scale, affordable and absolutely enjoyable and accessible. Sacramento is 45 minutes away. Genuinely good people and community-minded activities in this historical gold rush town. We can't find another town that checks all the quality boxes for us the way Placerville does.

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Our retirement town - 12/6/2013

We have built our retirement home here completed in 2013. Still a few years away from moving in (kid's college & weddings) but we are really looking forward to it. We always noticed this place on the way to our cabin in Tahoe and always loved it's charm. Well, getting to know this place during the building process & now every other long weekend stays here I think we really hit a bulls eye. This place is even more charming than we thought & the locals here are friendly and without pretense.It also has a great weekend town nightlife with live music & good food in 3-4 places at the same time. Love it!

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Red area Blue State - 6/11/2008

Placerville is a Republican Island in a Blue State- all of the politics are dominated by San Francisco and L.A. limosine liberals, and how they vote controls state policy- the state was once ok for the shooting sports but the state laws are bascially killing them off-

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Great place to live - 6/19/2007

Love it here. The weather is comfortable, the people are friendly, and it's close to Sacramento for city life.

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Placerville, CA - 2/5/2007

New here and just wanted to say HI!

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country living - 8/2/2006

Placerville is a fairly laid back city with a small town feel. Lots of history here from the gold rush era.

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