CORRECTION
A comment in last week’s letters column was mistakenly attributed to Eunice Penelope McGrackle. The names got switched on a negative comment about city workers, which she would never have made.
ONLINE COMMENTS
HAKUNA MATATA
Things go in cycles. I’ve seen three since living in Pleasure Point. My original neighbors have passed away. A bunch of young families moved in. Kids grown and gone. Many years of no kids but now again lots of young families. Seniors want to age in place. Once this group passes another round of families will move in. So goes the nature of things.
Candace Robinson Richtar | GoodTimes.SC
STAY PUT
Santa Cruz – and the whole SC-Watsonville coastal corridor – is a great place to age in place. Great weather, lots of physical activity options, friendly community, accessible healthcare. If you came here and bought decades ago, the biggest drawback (buying/renting a home) is now your biggest asset. Stay put for as long as you can, cuz it’s too expensive to move unless you’re cashing out and leaving the area.
Cindy Swan | GoodTimes.SC
GRATEFUL LIFE
If you can afford to stay, why (?) go anywhere else? Grateful we get to age in place in this county, now that we are here. Moved here from over the hill almost 20 years ago, best choice ever. Grateful every day, in every way.
Joann Kingsbury | GoodTimes.SC
AGING POPULATION
In other words. Boomers took over Santa Cruz because the majority of people my age got pushed out
Robin Russell | Goodtimes.sc
GRAYING SANTA CRUZ
Well thank you for this, Good Times! The Gray name has been very good to me…
Grayon Ross | Goodtimes.sc
WHY PEOPLE DON’T LEAVE
Confiscatory capital gains taxes make folks decide not to sell and move to less crowded areas.
Robin Marie Horn | Goodtimes.sc
Old hippies who are still here. Why would we go anywhere else?
Scott Le Grand | Goodtimes.sc
This isn’t at all surprising, boomers and older gen Xers bought here when it was affordable, then NIMBY-ed the shit out of it to prevent any growth, ensured predatory rental prices and then refused to let houses go for any thing less than a mil+ (and that was long before the pandemic). They turned a once cool artsy city into a geriatric community where they killed downtown, killed any potential for families to live here, and killed the art scene because no artists can afford to live here. They killed everything Santa Cruz and once was. I am 36, I was born here, my partner was born here and we were lucky enough to be able to move back here with our daughter, but the older generation has seriously negatively impacted the city we grew up in.
Bryanna Smith | Goodtimes.sc
Not surprising, the average age of a homebuyer has increased past 60, because it takes over 60 years to afford one here.
Kathleen Chasey |Goodtimes.sc
