The new issue of Surfer magazine has a feature listing the Top 10 America Surf Towns (magazines love to make list),
My hometown of Encinitas was ranked third best in the entire country. (Technically, I am from Leucadia which is the northern coastal part of Encinitas which is made up of 5 distinct communities: Leucadia, Old Encinitas, New Encinitas, Olivenhain and Cardiff-by-the-sea).
Surfer magazine sez that all the California beach towns are "surfy" but that Encinitas is extra surfy. I guess that is why Leucadia is home to Surfy Surfy. We are so surfy we say it twice. There may be a place out there that is so insanely Surfy that it is Surfy to the third power. Surfy Surfy Surfy.
Dang, the median home price is $900k? Living surfy ain't cheap. Hot tip, you can buy a mobile home in Encinitas 1/2 block from the beach for $150k. Now that's surfy!
An uncrowded winter day at Swami's in Encinitas, CA. Come join the fun! Photo by kbaird.
Please don't move here. We'd love to have you, but its fucking crowded!
ReplyDeleteAll east coast and Texas transplants go back.
ReplyDelete900k ha. How can I short Encinites. Sold
ReplyDeleteIronically, in the same issue they published a quote from some kook named bobsurf that points out how shitty the Encinitas swell window is.
ReplyDeleteOh, it is shitty, sharks brushing my leg every other time out, elbow-to-elbow in the line-up, housing prices are astronomical - not even a surf bum can afford it here, if I were a newbie looking for a new place, I'd go North.
ReplyDeleteyea but no HB on the list.....
ReplyDeleteMedian price for home $900,000
ReplyDeleteAverage income $80,000
THAT DOES NOT COMPUTE.
NO WONDER THE SYSTEM COLLAPSED.
Jimmy and Jason Ortega!!!!
ReplyDeleteWho are those dudes?
ReplyDeleteBBV -VS- VOD. This Saturday JP. Be ready...
ReplyDeleteif your caucasion, then obviously your family line is from the east too, they just came before, give it back to the natives, haaah
ReplyDeleteJimmy and Jason Ortega...who are those dudes? Obviously you aren't from the area or you'd know! Those two bro's ripped it up at Stonesteps from the 80's onward. You must be one of the ones from the "new" Encinitas!
ReplyDeleteKeep it local!