[ small towns ] I used to live here, Mantoloking, NJ. A fun place with good surf, nice people and beautiful weather. And now I live here, San Jose, CA. Compared to Mantoloking, San Jose is further from the surf, 35 minutes, has nice people (b/c many are imported from NJ!), beautiful weather and with only a 4 hour drive to the mountains we get some great skiiing. So instead of driving in the snow, we now drive to the snow ;)