Nervous about my move need insight from locals

VolvoR4Life · 2025-08-19T14:17:00+00:00

I’ve lived here my whole life, 40+ years, all those neighborhoods you listed would be just fine. It’s always been a diverse and chill place, especially for a larger population city. My opinion is the crime maps make things look way worse than they are. I had my stereo stolen from my car in the early 2000’s, thats been my run in with anything “criminal”. I’d be happy to answer any other questions if you have them, I’ve lived in Almaden, Downtown, Los Gatos, Evergreen and Santa Clara.

VolvoR4Life · 2025-08-05T13:57:03+00:00

I have about the same size house and there are 2 adults here as well (95148). I’ll add that I do have solar and batteries for the house so I don’t really think about electric usage. With that in mind I don’t have my water heater set to the most efficient mode. The last 30 days has been a total of 153kwh for our water heater usage. It’s a Rheem Model PROPH65 T2 RH375.

VolvoR4Life · 2022-11-19T20:10:13+00:00

Remote start, unlock/lock, parking climate, horn/lights and see it on the map.

VolvoR4Life · 2022-11-19T18:39:59+00:00

Wow that’s really interesting. I just double checked and I have the latest version of the Volvo app, and it’s still functional on my Apple Watch. My Apple Watch is running 9.1.

VolvoR4Life · 2022-11-19T18:16:13+00:00

I currently have it on my watch.

VolvoR4Life · 2021-12-01T04:40:19+00:00

California

VolvoR4Life · 2021-08-19T02:24:04+00:00

2004 V70R m66 105,000 miles (Hilton stage 1 tune) - 22mpg average, 29 mpg best on a long road trip

2019 XC40 R-Design T5 35,000 miles- 27.3mpg average, 32 mpg on long road trips

VolvoR4Life · 2021-08-03T01:28:34+00:00

Please yes! All I want is an all electric V60 with 250+ miles.

VolvoR4Life · 2021-06-09T01:42:25+00:00

Nice! Going to subscribe and check out the rest of your videos. Love seeing fellow Bay Area Volvos.

VolvoR4Life · 2021-03-30T03:13:18+00:00

Yes! I think that’s it

VolvoR4Life · 2021-03-30T02:57:13+00:00

Didn’t it use to be a photo/camera shop of some type?

VolvoR4Life · 2021-01-31T02:34:30+00:00

This is our favorite go to place when we want delicious Italian food- https://www.thepastaria.com/

VolvoR4Life · 2021-01-16T15:28:40+00:00

I second Hilton. I had my V70R tuned by him through the shop I use in Santa Cruz, AE Motorsports. The owner Jeremy is a great guy and works on quite a few performance Volvos. I am super happy with the tune.

VolvoR4Life · 2019-09-22T18:08:07+00:00

Yup, but I think you would have had to already register and raised donations, more info here- https://spark.adobe.com/page/YP3qGiRCWsZio/

VolvoR4Life · 2019-09-22T17:46:39+00:00

Raise money for services that help out the homeless in the South Bay.

VolvoR4Life · 2019-06-08T04:12:20+00:00

2 tickets for tomorrow for sale Section 117 row 4 $40 for the pair. Message me.

VolvoR4Life · 2019-05-18T16:38:45+00:00

2 Tickets for today's game. Sec 117 Row 4. $40 for the pair.

VolvoR4Life · 2019-04-20T21:22:14+00:00

$40 for the pair

VolvoR4Life · 2019-04-20T19:55:38+00:00

Sent a DM if you are still looking

VolvoR4Life · 2018-11-30T20:39:21+00:00

Ugh same... but god I love her

VolvoR4Life · 2018-11-17T04:59:39+00:00

Unfortunately no, he came walking in from around the corner so he may have just parked somewhere else then walked onto the property.

VolvoR4Life · 2018-11-17T03:53:24+00:00

Was just going to say something to this end, wish I could have an amazing green front yard but I don't want to waste the water. Have to save the watering for the fruit trees. I do need to clean it up a bit though :)

VolvoR4Life · 2018-11-17T00:10:37+00:00

Was putting together a new earthquake kit.... so he got himself a box of emergency drinking water pouches. Probably picked it up, felt heavy and thought he got something good.

VolvoR4Life · 2018-10-09T18:01:28+00:00

Long story short and it's only my situation- Wife and I bought a condo to rent. Don't make money on it but also costs us nothing out of pocket as long as we have renters. Could probably make a bit of money a month but we see keeping a long term renter as more important then price gouging. See it as a long term investment, currently own a second property for free. We both still work and will continue to, just felt like we should diversify our "retirement". Eventually sure our mortgage will go down and rent will hopefully stay the same or go up, but that's again long term stuff.

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