Environmental diversity is outstanding, ocean, mountains, desert all are in the county. 

It is true that California coastal weather, from San Diego to Santa Barbara is the absolute best in the world (I used to live in Newport Beach and loved it) and that California has some of the best natural beauty in our country be it deserts, ocean, forests, mountains -- but the reality is that the California economy is not in great shape and getting worse, and it is getting incredibly expensive to raise kids there. 

I've always wondered what it would be like to live in a place that isn't a desert.

Two 17 years old and learning to drive, a 10 month old, a 38 and 36 year old.I lived in the desert near El Centro, CA, back in the 1990's, less than 5 miles from the border with Mexico, off on a dirt road where by zoning the land was agriculture and houses could be no closer than one every 1/2 mile. 

If you're lucky a two bedroom house a bit farther out in the desert that is in questionable shape, or something fairly decent in the mountains.

For those who have never visited the desert in the summer, imagine opening your oven and feeling a blast of warm air hit your face.

Until i step into the car, push the button, hear the sound and take a drive on the deserted back-roads.

Kind of like the whole state of CA is a drying up desert, eh?  

When I was in the Marines, I once spent a month in the Moroccan desert and we just dug beds in the hot sand, ate cold military rations, and bathed in the Atlantic, which is the most minimalistic that I've ever lived, but it was also one of the simplest and most joyous times of my life.

Did the other town there's probably desert property that I could purchase with a minimum of 20 percent net income for monthsAs it seems right now in the better of the two cities that I currently work at, there are at least 4 properties I could purchase for a medium purchase price of $35,000.