- I am in Eastern Kern County, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains.Will you be staying or leaving?

It makes sense to downsize after retirement. with many bay area residents moving to the gold Country or foothills of the Sierra Nevada  El dorado county Nevada county etc.

In this case "R" stands for rural, as some of these zip codes include quite a lot of open desert-scape.Generally speaking: anything in the city proper (River Rd -> Golf Links | Oracle -> Wilmot) is going to have a higher prevalence of rental properties than the periphery, although Sierra Vista is a respectable 8th place with nearly 100 of their own rental property options. 

Access to the Ocean  The Sierra Nevada Mtn.

which with the forest fires we see today in cA.. that did allow urbanization into land that was forest in history we are seeing the drastic results.. and even in Oregon a few towns burnt down although not really because of urbanization into the forest like the Sierra Nevada has. we are looking at a specific county in WA and that county still has NO Zoning  everything just gets approved by project.. this is good and bad.. there is a time and place to separate manufacoring from SFR and commercial from SFR. 

I like KW Sierra Oaks they are awesome 

I have run short term rentals in the sierras and I have friends with a place in Big Bear that is doing really well.  

I just drove through Stockton on my way to the Sierras last weekend.