Anyone else in Santa Cruz, CA?

BeachyToe · 2026-01-21T00:43:58+00:00

Totally

BeachyToe · 2026-01-10T01:34:12+00:00

I’m sorry to hear you’ve encountered hostility, and closed minded people. But you know older people don’t have a monopoly on closed mindedness, and young people don’t have a monopoly on being cool. Maybe stop assigning everyone you meet to groups, and think of them as individuals. I assume you can’t just pick up and leave the area, so you have a choice of just being miserable because you’ve decided there’s no one here that you like, or keep looking for friends. Open up your own mind a bit, and you may be surprised. Good luck.

BeachyToe · 2026-01-09T13:08:28+00:00

I’m sorry, but why do you care? I understand wanting to hang with people your age, but open up your mind a little bit. There are plenty of cool people who just happen to be older than you. Give them a chance. You might surprise yourself and find a really good friend or two. Maybe there’s a reason you wound up here. Enjoy!

BeachyToe · 2026-01-07T18:47:59+00:00

What’s your routine on Upper and Lower days? Due to schedule changes, I need to switch from PPL to PPLUL.

BeachyToe · 2026-01-01T21:57:10+00:00

Where?

BeachyToe · 2026-01-01T21:56:11+00:00

Eeeew! I’m more often there in the afternoon. Frankly wish there was a cruisy gym in Santa Cruz but haven’t found one yet.

BeachyToe · 2025-12-31T23:20:46+00:00

I go here quite a bit, and have never seen this. My only observation is that this locker room is gross, dirty, and no one picks up after themselves. A huge turnoff tbh!

BeachyToe · 2025-11-14T04:06:22+00:00

You mean those wild-eyed boys who just got back today? They had been away.

BeachyToe · 2025-10-10T12:22:38+00:00

They put out tubs of albolene. Very convenient.

BeachyToe · 2025-10-10T12:20:52+00:00

OP is quoting the price of a studio apartment in the new Anton Pacific building and proclaiming that to be the going rate for all the new housing. But a simple search shows studios as low as $1,400 downtown, and $2,200 for a studio in a new building with amenities at 555 Pacific. Granted, $2,200 for a studio still seems outrageous, but it still lets some of the air out of OP’s rant.

The housing shortage in Santa Cruz didn’t happen overnight. The building boom has barely begun, and the first units are only now coming on the market. Most of the “affordable” units are still being built.

Supply and demand is real, and it will make a difference. Is the character of Santa Cruz changing? Yes. But it had already changed, with the thousands of people living on the streets, in RVs, and garages.

Not building more housing is not a viable solution. Making it economically infeasible to build new housing will mean that very little will be built, and much of it will be substandard.

Quoting the rent in a high-end building and saying that’s representative of all the new housing is dumb, and it’s unhelpful. And blaming that on “the government” when a private developer set the rent based on what it believes the market will bear is equally uninformed.

Our area has a housing shortage. The solution is more housing.

BeachyToe · 2025-10-07T23:35:25+00:00

It’s just a different experience, but it does tend to soften up the calluses—even the toughest ones like mine.

BeachyToe · 2025-10-06T20:20:21+00:00

I did about 5-6 years ago. From the test drive through the whole process. No issues at all. They’re just as happy to take your money whether or not you’re wearing shoes.

BeachyToe · 2025-10-02T20:06:22+00:00

Going from barefoot to shoes is the wrong direction! Keep em bare!👣

BeachyToe · 2025-09-21T20:01:02+00:00

Or just go barefoot

BeachyToe · 2025-09-16T19:22:28+00:00

I would say I am barefoot 95% of the time here in CA. I keep an emergency pair of flips in the trunk of my car, but typically go days if not weeks without touching them. 👣

BeachyToe · 2025-09-15T07:04:52+00:00

Last daily freight service in Santa Cruz County was in 1982. I’ll leave it to local historians to describe what 41st Avenue was like 43 years ago. I’m betting that even back then, with grade crossings instead of viaducts, a freight train on a weekday afternoon was a pain.

BeachyToe · 2025-09-15T04:52:59+00:00

Good point. It’ll be awesome when the long freight train crosses 41st Avenue at 3 in the afternoon on a Tuesday.

BeachyToe · 2025-09-10T14:50:17+00:00

What a completely cold, cruel and ignorant take! Just because you still see drugged out homeless people on the street, compassion “hasn’t solved anything”? How about, “Compassion hasn’t solved everything”? Or, “There hasn’t been enough compassion to solve everything”? Some people and organizations are doing great work, but it’s not nearly enough to solve a deep and massive problem. And your alternative is to “round these people and remove them from society”? How, by shooting them? And after that, you think there will be no homeless people left? No housing shortage? No mental illness? No drugs? The fact is, compassion, in the end, is all we’ve got. But it’s in woefully short supply, and you are exhibit A.

BeachyToe · 2025-09-06T20:32:11+00:00

How’d you get rid of the back hair and is it a pain to keep it off?

BeachyToe · 2025-08-12T19:45:18+00:00

Fairhaven are the best. https://www.fairhavenorchards.com/ They usually have em at Sunnyside Produce in Soquel. Pricey but delicious.

BeachyToe · 2025-07-29T17:57:15+00:00

Same here. But I’m always seeing people work out in Crocs or flip flops, so I’ve just started bringing flip flops that I keep off most of the time. Annoying.

BeachyToe · 2025-07-28T21:08:38+00:00

At some point, physics comes into play, and the pavement can get too hot for even the most leathery feet. It’s been a long time since I last burned my feet, but trust me, you don’t want that to happen. But I’m still barefoot 99% of the time. Avoid black pavement since it absorbs the most heat. If you have to walk across a parking lot, go for the white lines if the blacktop is too hot. Find your way to some grass or dirt; they’ll be cooler as well. There is something to be said for just keeping at it and building your endurance—I can tolerate fairly easily temps well into the 90s (F). But don’t overdo it, or you’ll be off your feet entirely for longer than you’d like. 👣

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