You have to be careful of those. You can get a nasty nip.
I shouldn’t wonder if the heat is hot there too.
YES! World famous Oxnard strawberries! What a treat!
A beach town where it’s perpetually warm and there’s “nothing much to do?” Sounds perfect to me. How about for kids? Would you say it’s a good place for a family? Schools? Safe? Anything along those lines I’d love to hear about. Then there’s quaintness. Does it have any of that? That’s the kind of thing the Ms likes. As in, for instance, all the old Victorian houses in SF. She loves those.
Then you’ll love it!
Very safe. Every place has its bad areas, but Ventura County isn’t bad. You almost have to go looking for bad areas to find them. Great place for a family. The only problem is kids getting bored and maybe getting into a little trouble just by virtue of trying to find something exciting to do. Maybe some high school kids underage drinking by bonfires on the beach on a Saturday night. Nothing major.
I can’t speak to all the schools in the county, but I know the schools in Camarillo are generally very good.
Very.
In some of the older pockets, yes. Old Ventura is pretty quaint. SB is prety quaint too. As you drive east from the Mission, along Main Street, you can see turn of the century homes, then 1920s homes, then 1940s homes, 1950s, 1960s, 70s, 80s, etc. Every few blocks is like its own architectural time capsule.
Mission San Buenaventura was founded in 1782. The city of San Buenaventuira grew slowly around the mission. By 1860, there was still only a population of about 1,000 in Ventura. The Oxnard Plain was pretty isolated from the rest of the state due to the mountains on all sides. As I mentioned the cliffs to the east cut off traffic to Santa Barbara in the winter along El Camino Real.
The railroad came. They unofficially shortened the name to Ventura to fit on the train schedule.
Old Oxnard grew up in the mid-1800s as a huge lima bean producer.
Camarillo was just a few store fronts and a few homes on Ventura Blvd. at the turn of the century, plus the huge Camarillo family ranch, which is now most of the entire city of Camarillo. Also historically big on lima beans.
The area really didn’t boom population wise until WWII, when the air fields came in.