That was a awesome video their Mark, good job. I made the move up from Orange County 20 years ago. Lived here but worked out of state for a while before landing my current job which keeps me in Paso full-time. Am not much for going downtown to eat but have visited some of the restaurants you showed in your video. Paso is a great place to live. Just driving around on all the back roads for an afternoon cruise is nice to do and so many things to see and do. The weather is great after you've been here awhile, you just get use to it. Can't say enough about the great City of Paso Robles. Just think we live in a city where others have to come to and get away from it all, meanwhile we already live here. Welcome to the SLO-COUNTY-LIFE. Yee-haw.🙃
I'm with you on all the points you made. I do, however, patronize downtown restaurants/places to drink, but almost exclusively during the week. As we know, Deeds @ the golf course is THE spot to go, regardless of the day of week. I'll include them in a future video. Thanks for watching!
@@markwilley80 We are currently in Kennewick, Washington. My fiancée and I are both physicians and looking to move in 2-3 years. We both plan to work when we get to Paso. She will stay in medicine full time, I will be partly retired. I am also a commercial pilot so I hope to work at the Paso or SLO airport and still do some part time medicine. I am from California, and moved to WA about 18 years ago from Sonora, and before that I was in the Bay Area. I still love California and miss is desperately, and yes I know about the downsides. A person has to look at the good and the bad in each situation and accept it and make decisions based on the big picture and one's best interests and the interests of the family. I am fairly expert in my knowledge of California geography and living situations and have experience in SLO country so we feel that is the right spot for out future.
@@williamk5998 Ah, thanks for all the feedback & info. I have deep roots in the Bay Area (north beach SF) and Sonora. My uncle, Stephen Willey, sold The National Hotel in Jamestown 2 yrs ago after owning/operating it since ~ 1974. And yes: no place is perfect, anywhere. However...I will say that Paso checks the vast majority of "boxes" for me, despite it being in CA. I've lived in many cities, and no place compares to here. That said: reach out to me anytime if I can answer any questions about Paso or help you in any way.
@@markwilley80 Will do 🙂 We will be in town 6/17-19 looking at property and visiting. Your uncles name rings a bell. It's been a long time but I think he was a patient of mine!
@@williamk5998 What a super-small world if you did in fact have my uncle as a patient of yours in the past. No idea if you have any particular property-types in mind when you come to visit, but I'm more than happy to put my "feelers" out before you get here so I can point you in the right direction and possibly setup showings for you and your wife. Just a thought.
Hey Chris! Yes, definitely a TON of change in that time period. I've only been here for 10 years, and it is the best place I've ever lived. Thank you for watching, by the way. Where is home for you now?
Go show them the neighbor hoods north past Spring & 24th and down by J&J liquor. Starting to look like LA county. And also show them all the homeless in the Salinas riverbed that like to break into cars in your driveway at night.
Yessir: no place is perfect, that’s for sure. Relative to most other towns in California, I feel that Paso is about as good as it gets, however. What’s your preferred place to live if you don’t like Paso?
I’m a Bay Area kid, and retired peace officer. I’ve lived in north slo county since 1998. During my law enforcement career I would tell people slo county is the hidden gem of California! The North county does get hot in the summer but a 20 minute drive to south county and the coast drops 20 degrees or more! Slo county is a large county with a low population and low crime rate! I raised 3 kids to adulthood in slo county and two still live here! Not sure if slo county is right for you? come visit and see for yourself 😄
Slo County is amazing. I think southern slo County is better. But both are awesome. I've lived in Pismo slo and paso for 18 years combined. Wife was born and raised in Pismo and shell Beach. Amazing place
@@stephenrose9845 So many great places to live in SLO County. Really depends on one’s climate preference, for the most part. Where’s home for you now? And, thanks for watching 👊👊
I love Paso Robles. My sister and parents still live there and I was just there in May and the weather was beautiful. If it wasn’t for my job I would move back. I grew up there back in the 80s and I remember the downtown being dead until the late 90s when they put the theater down there. We use to attend the wine festivals and car shows downtown and that was a lot of fun
It's a nice place to visit but way too hot during the summer wine country tourists everywhere packed all summer long lots of alcoholics bar wine list booze booze heat and lots of country folks used to be the cheapest spot to live in SLO county the mid state fair very hot 🔥 ok entertainment but mostly country acts I like the south coast way better Avila beach shell beach Pismo beach morro bay gets perfect weather when summer is over and the tourists are gone cool mostly during the summer and ocean get aways and way different vibe not so country
What job market, when my wife and I moved here to SLO county 33 years ago we quickly found ourselves working 2 jobs while navigating the task of earning a living. Luckily I’m a master mechanic and my wife has been in the union for 35 years now, it’s been challenging at times but I wouldn’t change a thing. Oh I forgot to mention that we escaped from Calabasas in 1991.
@@johnrpizzaguy I agree with you here. Definitely not enough high paying jobs locally to afford these crazy real estate prices. I bought in Paso in 2018 and thank god I did, otherwise I would have left long ago. Do you run your own mechanic shop? Always good to know a few great mechanics locally.
@@markwilley80 I bought 2 homes in Nipomo for $90 in 1991,upgraded homes many times now at 64 I’m retiring and we have downsized to a half acre and a 1500 sq ft house that’s paid for. Thank you for the comment have a great day
You are 100% correct with both statements! Many of the roads west of Spring St. are in terrible shape. But, it's nice to see a few of them currently being repaved.
@@markwilley80I grew up in Paso back in the 80s and 90s and now I live in Phoenix. Yes, Paso got hot but at night it cools and you have the beach about 30min away. Phoenix is miserable with heat day and night for 5-6 months w the AC running all day. The original post doesn’t know what hot is
That last bar is a horrible place. SLO is gentrified and ruined by Rich people, and tourism has ruined the economy. It's like Hawaii 2.0, real generational locals can't live here now due to Rich psychopaths.
