The neighborhood
What a Seal Beach move actually involves
Leisure World sits on 531 gated acres and shapes how a large share of moves in this city run. It is a stock cooperative, so a home there is a share in a numbered mutual rather than a deed, and each mutual keeps its own board, its own rules and its own gate procedure. In practice that means names on the gate list before arrival, a single-story manor with a narrow front walk, a carport instead of a driveway, and residents who are home in the middle of a weekday. We book those jobs with more time on the clock than the square footage suggests, because the walk from the manor door to where a truck can legally sit is usually the longest part of the day.
Down on the flats, Old Town is a grid of numbered streets between Pacific Coast Highway and the sand, mostly cottages and bungalows with garages off a rear alley. Metered parking runs daily from 8am to 6pm on Main Street, Ocean Avenue, Central Avenue and Electric Avenue, and the city code holds any vehicle wider than 80 inches to two hours on a public street, so truck placement is a decision we make before the day rather than on it. Surfside Colony adds a guarded gate and three lettered rows, A, B and C, where shuttle distance matters far more than mileage. The Hill and Bridgeport are the easier end of town, larger homes on wider streets, and they are also the only two neighborhoods in Seal Beach with their own direct access to PCH.
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