Santa Rosa, CA is a city located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is known for its beautiful scenery, outdoor activities, and unique attractions. Santa Rosa's natural beauty and cultural amenities make it an ideal destination for those looking to explore and experience the best of California’s wine country. In recent years, Santa Rosa has become more popular with tourists due to its burgeoning foodie scene, craft breweries, art galleries, and boutique wineries. Many visitors have noted that Santa Rosa offers a great combination of urban convenience and rural charm. Visitors praise the local restaurants and markets as well as the vibrant downtown shopping district. With its balmy Mediterranean climate year-round, Santa Rosa is an excellent place for outdoor activities such as hiking in nearby Sonoma Valley or mountain biking on Annadel State Park trails. Overall, guests rave about their experiences in Santa Rosa with many calling it one of the most enjoyable cities in California.
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Perfect climate - 11/1/2009
Santa Rosa, CA is a beautiful city and has a nearly perfect climate. It does have the change of seasons but the weather is quite
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Great if you bought 15 years ago!! - 7/31/2009
This place used to be affordable for california, with people in the early eighties being able to buy a house for 70k to 110k. Have wages went up 600%? No, just another reason why the young and working class leave in droves. I am planning my leave as well for somewhere in the midwest where a fixer upper can be had for $10,000 or so. The weather is not that great! I mean the weather is wonderful, sometimes 75 degrees in december and January. But there comes a time when you realize that you will never ever be able to afford a home here. I see ads where people are living 2 to a room. I do not see why anyone would chose to come out and live here, if your poor you will exploited by high rents, if you are rich why pay california taxes? The traffic is terrible. If you want great weather I would try chico or the foothills if you want to be in California, but then again that is where people in California go when they try to find cheaper real estate, then you realize that everyone is fleeing
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Awesome weather, very expensive home prices rent - 5/14/2009
That said a friend just purchased a foreclosed home that was fairly new for $150,000 on a small lot. That was in a working class neighborhood that I would live in. That might not last too long. The last figures out seem to have stabilized for home prices at about $400,000. This whole system is geared too having very high real estate. The towns do not want to grow and they veto anything that is affordable, a real bad nimby attitude. Yet they still have job growth, that is, for now. I think this place is poised on the edge of disaster because of the high costs, high utilities, high taxes. I mean people keep leaving for affordable areas, and this place might get so expensive that people leave in droves.
Also the traffic in Santa Rosa and near cities is awful. The city has a small system of four lane roads. The 101 freeway has just went to six lanes.
That said I am a very frugal person and have discovered cheap places to live here, although one trailer court raised its
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Climate - 4/1/2009
I've relocated from New York to California. I love the climate, it's the one of the thing keeping me here. It's much more expensive , so I'm considering relocating back to the East
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Cool Rainy Winters and Tall Redwoods - 2/23/2009
Santa Rosa, an hour north of San Francisco is the beginning of the true Northern California with Redwoods becoming ubiquitous.
The Winters are cool and rainy with warmish but not impossible Summers with weather in the 80's to low 90's generally. The Winters will dip below freezing at night perhaps a dozen times with the days in the 50's generally.
Unfortunately the cost of living, like most of California will give pause if you are from out of state and are not familiar with the cost of the good
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I would move here today - 2/11/2009
I have had the fortune to visit Santa Rosa many times over the last several years. People are friendly and appear to be well educated. Job oppertunities are numerous, especially health care. Yes, the cost of living may be a little high, but so is Boston & Philidelphia. If you love a warm climate and can tolerate a little wind and a few rainy days, you will love living in the Santa Rosa
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Great place to live - 7/6/2008
Santa Rosa is perfect. The climate is the best in the nation. It has seasons but they are very mild. There is no rain for most of the year, but it is beautiful and green. It is only one hour from San Francisco, the most beautiful city in the U.S. People are friendly and open
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Loved to death - 2/28/2008
One of the finest living areas in the U.S., though slowly succumbing to growth issues. A vibrant agricultural/viticulture community maintains a lot of open space but we are slowly losing ground to traffic and other expansion woes as with all desirable areas that are loved to
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Santa Rosa Climate - 1/27/2008
Santa Rosa has a very moderate climate, with seasonal weather, that does not fluctuate uncomfortably as the seasons
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