I thought I would provide a little context about where we have moved. Everyone has a picture of where Seattle is and what it is like (cue montage of the Space Needle, a fish being thrown at Pike Place Market, an espresso shot being pulled, etc) but very few people have heard of Nevada City when I mention it.


About 3 hours drive to the Bay Area and about an hour to Tahoe.

There are a few thousand people in the city limits and a lot more in the neighboring town of Grass Valley and the surrounding area.


This is is Broad street. You can see approximately half of downtown Nevada City in this one picture.

Nevada City was a mining boom town. It was settled in 1849 and there were 2,683 people there one year later. The population has remained more or less the same ever since.

I've heard the area we live in described as the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. We are at 2,500 feet elevation so we are definitely in the mountains but we don't get a ton of snow.


This is what the Yuba River looks like a few miles from where we live.

I'll post a bit more information about the area around our property later.