Galt

I lived here during my teenage and young adult years, and my parents still live there. It is a quiet, family-friendly place to live. The home prices are lower than in Nearby cities of Sacramento, Elk Grove, and Stockton, mostly because it is out in the middle of farmland. Speaking of farmland, it often smells strongly of cows when the wind blows just right. The town does boast a huge flea market that people come to from miles around. Galt also has been revamping the downtown street with some very nice restaurants, bakeries, and an antiques store. Spans cookies have been made there since like the 50's or something and are still going strong despite the influx of new and equally tasty shops, like the gourmet cupcake store a few doors down. It is a good town for those who work in the nearby cities and want to be able to own or rent a home and live in a quiet place, and don't mind the commute. There are community events like the Strawberry Festival, nearby wineries and a skydiving company ten minutes away in Lodi, and an easy drive to cute foothill historic towns like Sutter's Creek, Ione, and Jackson. Galt itself is not pretty at all. It is a very low elevation and everything around it is brown and flat for most of the year. Since I absolutely love being surrounded by nature, Galt is not a place I will ever call home again, but if your dream is to live in a quiet suburban home, then Galt is a good town.

Okay, so until a couple of weeks ago when I stopped by here with the BF on one of our many rambles, I’m not sure I even knew that Galt existed. I may have but I could not have pointed it out on a map. I have only been here once, but I thought I would give you the skinny on what I found.

There is, as far as I’m concerned, one reason to go to Galt, and that it is to visit Brewsters. It is a very cool saloon-like bar smack in the middle of Galt. But this is not the kind of saloon you will find in your typical one-horse town (which Galt with barely a population of 20,000 definitely is). This is a big bar with really cool upstairs area with red velvet coated chairs and a ceiling high glittering back bar filled with liquors of all varieties. (I had a great Manhattan.)

They also have big meaty burgers.

Now I don’t know what it would be like to live here. You are sort of out in the middle of nowhere. Galt is in-between Stockton and Sacramento (on the southern end of Sacramento County). It is pretty much farm country.

The usual things that you would expect given what I said so far seemed to be true about Galt: home prices are pretty low. (These mostly looked like Ranch style homes--at least that is what I saw.) Schools look good and crime is pretty low these days.

Unless I worked here or in Stockton, I don’t think that I would choose to live here, however. I’m just too much of a city girl. But if you happen to be planning a visit to Brewsters, I am totally in.