{"id":10850,"date":"2013-02-04T03:43:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T11:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=10850"},"modified":"2013-02-04T03:43:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T11:43:52","slug":"california-beach-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-beach-village\/","title":{"rendered":"California Beach Village that Will Make You Want to Pack Up and Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/capitoo.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Capitola by the Sea isn&#8217;t for everyone. In fact, most people can&#8217;t afford to live there. But for those who love the California beach lifestyle, this little city of 2 square miles and 10,000 people is the kind of place you&#8217;d like to pack up and move to, especially if you like a slower pace. Its scenic charm is reminiscent of the Riviera. Around every bend are splashes of color&#8211;flowers, flag banners, beach umbrellas, and even the buildings are painted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/capitola.html\">bright and cheerful colors<\/a>, complimenting the serene blues of the sky and sea. It&#8217;s a surfer&#8217;s paradise where newcomers can take surf lessons. Then there&#8217;s swimming, boating, bicycling, hikes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/piers\/capitola-wharf.html\">pier strolls<\/a>, and the waves &amp; sand ever present.<\/p>\n<p>Most of us will visit, be surprised, delighted and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/capitola-events.html\">entertained<\/a>, and go home with fond memories. That&#8217;s how a vacation should be. But if you ever want to live in Capitola, you may have to stick to apartments, mobile homes, townhomes and condos. If you&#8217;re looking for a beach-close house which most Capitola homes are,) then you might want to plan on spending around $850K &#8211; $1.5 million for something nice&#8211;not necessarily luxurious but nice.\u00a0 It takes money to become a beach bum in Capitola, but it&#8217;s not different than most the coast where living at the beach costs a little bit more&#8211;but the lifestyle is priceless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capitola by the Sea isn&#8217;t for everyone. In fact, most people can&#8217;t afford to live there. But for those who love the California beach lifestyle, this little city of 2 square miles and 10,000 people is the kind of place you&#8217;d like to pack up and move to, especially if you like a slower pace. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10850"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}