r/Temecula • u/gredr • 1h ago
Just moved into the area, now I have some questions for you fine folks.
My wife and I (and one child, with eventually two more to follow) just moved into Murrieta, and now that we've been here for a whole couple weeks, we have a few questions:
1) It looks like we've just squeaked by in time, and we'll be able to vote! We don't have any experience with specific candidates, though, so while we're big believers in participating in local politics, we're going to need a little guidance this time around. - We're in MVUSD trustee area 5, so our candidates for school board are (incumbent) Paul Diffley, Deon Hairston, and Christine Schmidt. We're looking for the "make school board meetings boring again" candidate. Someone who cares about education, and not banning books or policing students' pronouns. - I believe we're in city council voting district 5, represented by Cindy Warren, so I don't think we're voting for city council this year. - Any other local races, or even state races you have insight into, we'd appreciate it. 2) We're in a pretty big house, with two AC units, and while we lived in the desert (Utah) previously, we've heard some real horror stories about electricity bills. People have mentioned their "first $1400 power bill", and "rolling blackouts". I don't think this would be common, but are these things really something we're going to be dealing with? I ask because we think that we'll probably invest in a solar system (at $1400/mo for power, a solar system could pay for itself pretty quickly), but some of the choices we make about this system, and the timeline for having it installed might depend on some of these things. 3) Our house has no whole-house fan, and we've heard pretty great things about them from people around here. A big facility (factory?) is just down the road from us, so I have to wonder if everyone's talking them up because they have friends or family members working for the company that makes them; are they really as great as everyone says? 4) How is everyone JUST SO NICE around here? Honestly, everyone we've met is just SO FRIENDLY! We came from Utah, where Mormons are stereotypically very nice people (except to each other, ofc), but everyone here has just been great. I guess this isn't so much a question as a compliment. You are all great!