Not all of it. Have you been here? Enough with the ignorance.
The stretch between Ventura and San Louis Obispo on the coast is largely uncrowded, temperate and beautiful. Obviously it’s expensive but not to the extent of a few large cities. Air conditioners aren’t necessary. You’ll use your heater a bit for a few months. You’ll get a lot of coastal fog. A lot of people don’t like not having a very much direct sun but I’m fine with the gloom.
The other places that I’ve been with similar-ish climate are parts of Australia and NZ, Italy and Southern Africa. Stick to areas on the coast and near the vineyards.
I lived in California for sixty years, all of it in those primo climate areas. Coastal fog is not what the OP wants, apparently (see my comment about them wanting to live indoors only outdoors).
Housing prices in CA must be experienced to be believed. In my “rural” location in the Santa Cruz Mountains, the house we built in the early 1980’s, worth about $200K back then (already double what a similar house in a less California place would cost), we sold seven years ago for $875K. It sold in one day, with seven firm offers above our asking price. A two bedroom one bath house, 1100 square feet. It sold so fast, our realtor said, because it was one of the very few houses available for under a million.
The area you mention wouldn’t be quite that expensive but still unaffordable for most people. And it still, looking at the whole US, is a sliver of real estate, as I said.
There are lots of little microclimates. My specific neighborhood is noticeably cooler than anywhere else in town all year round. It’s super nice those couple of very warm weeks but we actually get frost on the roof some early mornings.
Very clever! Did you used to write catchy jingles for a living?
Truly SoCal a bit inland is a great climate. No need of AC, no humidity, and relatively little need of heat. Just don’t expect to live year round in shorts & a t-shirt unless you’re unusually chill-proof.
When I lived there (20+ years) it was always within a mile of the ocean. Lots of cool gray hours on lots of cool gray days. Which tore me up.
I can understand, sort of, the attraction to year-round mild weather (though such settings generally come with crowding, air pollution and ultra-high prices).
To me, “good weather” means a four-season climate without godawful extremes of cold or heat. A minimally changing climate would mean foregoing the rush I get when the first warm days of spring supplant winter. This musical selection captures the feeling for me.
I’m not sure there is any such thing as “warm in an absolute sense” until you get near “Las Vegas in July” temps but 60F seems to be a particularly strange temperature. I laugh whenever I travel - I go to the Rochester/Buffalo area and the locals are wearing shorts at 60F. I go to Florida or South Carolina and people are wearing coats and hats if it’s 60 degrees. Me, I’m wearing a T shirt and pants at 60 degrees so people are looking at me funny either way.
I haven’t been there but I’ve looked for places to travel in the mainland US, for a vacation, a few times and there seemed to be some regions of Colorado (Durango, Canon City, etc.) that appear to be fairly temperate throughout the year.
But I don’t know if they’re horribly rainy or have some other issues?
If you like all 4 seasons with everything in moderation, the Northern Virginia Piedmont has the best climate in the country. Not too hot in summer, but hot enough to make autumn beautiful. Not too cold or snowy in winter, but cold enough to make spring very beautiful. A nice balance of sun and rain. Hurricanes are fairly rare here (the last was in 2003).
I’ve been around the world, but never found a climate I like half as much as the Northern Virginia Piedmont.
Stable, yes - but highly variable by location. Here’s a map that shows annual rainfall on the Big Island: it varies from under 10" to over 240" (yes, that’s 20 feet / 6 meters of rain).
Which I guess supports the idea that a lot of people would find a comfortable climate: all tastes are catered to.
I was briefly an engineer designing HVAC systems for large buildings. There is a range of temperature and humidity for an office, think of it like a little box, where anywhere in that box like 85% of the people will be comfortable. There is no place where everyone will be comfortable.
I love the weather in northern Nv, about 5 months below 60 degrees, seldom over 100 and nights get down to about 20 in the winter. Low humidity so the cold and the hot both feel pretty comfortable. I see this area as eventually becoming a metropolis.
That’s my understanding as well. (Admittedly, I’ve never been to Hawaii, much less lived there.) The nice thing about Hawaii’s climate is that in addition to never getting really cold it also never gets ridiculously hot.
The highest temperature ever recorded in Hawaii was 100 degrees F. That’s lower than the record high temperature in all forty-eight continental states (and it ties Alaska’s record high).
It all depends on what you are used to. When we get a 60F day on the early spring, i may go out in shorts. If we get one in midsummer, I’ll wear long pants and long sleeves. Because my body is different in the winter than in the summer.
The nighttime average goes from a high of 84F to a whopping low of 81F, the daily high doesn’t quite get you to where you want, sitting between 86-88F. And if you want humidity, boy does it have it in spades!
