Good luck on your search Susan. Don't know much about the west coast, however, nor HOA fees -- WOW, they seem pretty steep, though.
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam