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January 4, 2008 at 6:17 PM #11406January 4, 2008 at 7:38 PM #129501Allan from FallbrookParticipant
Bunny: Well, gee, I don’t exactly know how to answer this one. Yep, there are parts of F’brook that are a little downtrodden (to use your word), but, overall, it is a nice place to live.
I would recommend doing more than just a drive through. Take a long afternoon and look around – all the way around – meaning the entire town. I have been here over four years now, but would be the first one to say that it isn’t for everyone.
I grew up in a small town as well, and that is the one thing that I really like about Fallbrook. There is a very strange dichotomy here: There is a great deal of affluence, juxtaposed with a very working class environment.
Start at the end of Mission Road, where it intersects with Highway 76. That shopping center is River Village (and is technically Bonsall). Work your way up Mission back towards town. When you hit Mission Road and Main, turn back around at Main and head through the center of town, making certain to hit the side streets around Mission. Best street to use for that is Alvarado. Nose around and take your time. If you still have issues, I would recommend looking at Bonsall as well.
January 4, 2008 at 7:38 PM #129774Allan from FallbrookParticipantBunny: Well, gee, I don’t exactly know how to answer this one. Yep, there are parts of F’brook that are a little downtrodden (to use your word), but, overall, it is a nice place to live.
I would recommend doing more than just a drive through. Take a long afternoon and look around – all the way around – meaning the entire town. I have been here over four years now, but would be the first one to say that it isn’t for everyone.
I grew up in a small town as well, and that is the one thing that I really like about Fallbrook. There is a very strange dichotomy here: There is a great deal of affluence, juxtaposed with a very working class environment.
Start at the end of Mission Road, where it intersects with Highway 76. That shopping center is River Village (and is technically Bonsall). Work your way up Mission back towards town. When you hit Mission Road and Main, turn back around at Main and head through the center of town, making certain to hit the side streets around Mission. Best street to use for that is Alvarado. Nose around and take your time. If you still have issues, I would recommend looking at Bonsall as well.
January 4, 2008 at 7:38 PM #129743Allan from FallbrookParticipantBunny: Well, gee, I don’t exactly know how to answer this one. Yep, there are parts of F’brook that are a little downtrodden (to use your word), but, overall, it is a nice place to live.
I would recommend doing more than just a drive through. Take a long afternoon and look around – all the way around – meaning the entire town. I have been here over four years now, but would be the first one to say that it isn’t for everyone.
I grew up in a small town as well, and that is the one thing that I really like about Fallbrook. There is a very strange dichotomy here: There is a great deal of affluence, juxtaposed with a very working class environment.
Start at the end of Mission Road, where it intersects with Highway 76. That shopping center is River Village (and is technically Bonsall). Work your way up Mission back towards town. When you hit Mission Road and Main, turn back around at Main and head through the center of town, making certain to hit the side streets around Mission. Best street to use for that is Alvarado. Nose around and take your time. If you still have issues, I would recommend looking at Bonsall as well.
January 4, 2008 at 7:38 PM #129676Allan from FallbrookParticipantBunny: Well, gee, I don’t exactly know how to answer this one. Yep, there are parts of F’brook that are a little downtrodden (to use your word), but, overall, it is a nice place to live.
I would recommend doing more than just a drive through. Take a long afternoon and look around – all the way around – meaning the entire town. I have been here over four years now, but would be the first one to say that it isn’t for everyone.
I grew up in a small town as well, and that is the one thing that I really like about Fallbrook. There is a very strange dichotomy here: There is a great deal of affluence, juxtaposed with a very working class environment.
Start at the end of Mission Road, where it intersects with Highway 76. That shopping center is River Village (and is technically Bonsall). Work your way up Mission back towards town. When you hit Mission Road and Main, turn back around at Main and head through the center of town, making certain to hit the side streets around Mission. Best street to use for that is Alvarado. Nose around and take your time. If you still have issues, I would recommend looking at Bonsall as well.
January 4, 2008 at 7:38 PM #129670Allan from FallbrookParticipantBunny: Well, gee, I don’t exactly know how to answer this one. Yep, there are parts of F’brook that are a little downtrodden (to use your word), but, overall, it is a nice place to live.
I would recommend doing more than just a drive through. Take a long afternoon and look around – all the way around – meaning the entire town. I have been here over four years now, but would be the first one to say that it isn’t for everyone.
I grew up in a small town as well, and that is the one thing that I really like about Fallbrook. There is a very strange dichotomy here: There is a great deal of affluence, juxtaposed with a very working class environment.
Start at the end of Mission Road, where it intersects with Highway 76. That shopping center is River Village (and is technically Bonsall). Work your way up Mission back towards town. When you hit Mission Road and Main, turn back around at Main and head through the center of town, making certain to hit the side streets around Mission. Best street to use for that is Alvarado. Nose around and take your time. If you still have issues, I would recommend looking at Bonsall as well.
January 4, 2008 at 8:39 PM #129725temeculaguyParticipantBunny, while i don’t live in the brook it is the town next door and I have worked there in years past. What you need to realize it that in any agricultural area, you are going to have workers and they have to live somewhere. There is a very large Guatemalen population, low paid enlisted and their families and civilian military service workers. The majority of Fallbrook is gentlemen ranchers and the well to do but the cheap housing is located within walking distance to shops so it is overly visible. Your (my) sanitized temecula has poor people too, they just clustered the low income housing in certain areas and out of view (accross the river from old town and at Margarita and Solano). While you may have lived in some Major cities, a farming town within an hours drive of a third world country was’t on it, so it may take some getting used to. We natives tend to not notice these things even in plain view because most of us don’t see the farm workers as a threat, for the most part they are harmless.
Fallbrook has some beautiful homes, but most are not visible from the main roads and even more are off easements or nestled in the trees or hills away from view, it’s a different type of people and not the “look at my big house” type so you have to follow Allan’s advice and get off the main roads and tour the outskirts.
January 4, 2008 at 8:39 PM #129732temeculaguyParticipantBunny, while i don’t live in the brook it is the town next door and I have worked there in years past. What you need to realize it that in any agricultural area, you are going to have workers and they have to live somewhere. There is a very large Guatemalen population, low paid enlisted and their families and civilian military service workers. The majority of Fallbrook is gentlemen ranchers and the well to do but the cheap housing is located within walking distance to shops so it is overly visible. Your (my) sanitized temecula has poor people too, they just clustered the low income housing in certain areas and out of view (accross the river from old town and at Margarita and Solano). While you may have lived in some Major cities, a farming town within an hours drive of a third world country was’t on it, so it may take some getting used to. We natives tend to not notice these things even in plain view because most of us don’t see the farm workers as a threat, for the most part they are harmless.
Fallbrook has some beautiful homes, but most are not visible from the main roads and even more are off easements or nestled in the trees or hills away from view, it’s a different type of people and not the “look at my big house” type so you have to follow Allan’s advice and get off the main roads and tour the outskirts.
January 4, 2008 at 8:39 PM #129557temeculaguyParticipantBunny, while i don’t live in the brook it is the town next door and I have worked there in years past. What you need to realize it that in any agricultural area, you are going to have workers and they have to live somewhere. There is a very large Guatemalen population, low paid enlisted and their families and civilian military service workers. The majority of Fallbrook is gentlemen ranchers and the well to do but the cheap housing is located within walking distance to shops so it is overly visible. Your (my) sanitized temecula has poor people too, they just clustered the low income housing in certain areas and out of view (accross the river from old town and at Margarita and Solano). While you may have lived in some Major cities, a farming town within an hours drive of a third world country was’t on it, so it may take some getting used to. We natives tend to not notice these things even in plain view because most of us don’t see the farm workers as a threat, for the most part they are harmless.
Fallbrook has some beautiful homes, but most are not visible from the main roads and even more are off easements or nestled in the trees or hills away from view, it’s a different type of people and not the “look at my big house” type so you have to follow Allan’s advice and get off the main roads and tour the outskirts.
January 4, 2008 at 8:39 PM #129799temeculaguyParticipantBunny, while i don’t live in the brook it is the town next door and I have worked there in years past. What you need to realize it that in any agricultural area, you are going to have workers and they have to live somewhere. There is a very large Guatemalen population, low paid enlisted and their families and civilian military service workers. The majority of Fallbrook is gentlemen ranchers and the well to do but the cheap housing is located within walking distance to shops so it is overly visible. Your (my) sanitized temecula has poor people too, they just clustered the low income housing in certain areas and out of view (accross the river from old town and at Margarita and Solano). While you may have lived in some Major cities, a farming town within an hours drive of a third world country was’t on it, so it may take some getting used to. We natives tend to not notice these things even in plain view because most of us don’t see the farm workers as a threat, for the most part they are harmless.
Fallbrook has some beautiful homes, but most are not visible from the main roads and even more are off easements or nestled in the trees or hills away from view, it’s a different type of people and not the “look at my big house” type so you have to follow Allan’s advice and get off the main roads and tour the outskirts.
January 4, 2008 at 8:39 PM #129831temeculaguyParticipantBunny, while i don’t live in the brook it is the town next door and I have worked there in years past. What you need to realize it that in any agricultural area, you are going to have workers and they have to live somewhere. There is a very large Guatemalen population, low paid enlisted and their families and civilian military service workers. The majority of Fallbrook is gentlemen ranchers and the well to do but the cheap housing is located within walking distance to shops so it is overly visible. Your (my) sanitized temecula has poor people too, they just clustered the low income housing in certain areas and out of view (accross the river from old town and at Margarita and Solano). While you may have lived in some Major cities, a farming town within an hours drive of a third world country was’t on it, so it may take some getting used to. We natives tend to not notice these things even in plain view because most of us don’t see the farm workers as a threat, for the most part they are harmless.
Fallbrook has some beautiful homes, but most are not visible from the main roads and even more are off easements or nestled in the trees or hills away from view, it’s a different type of people and not the “look at my big house” type so you have to follow Allan’s advice and get off the main roads and tour the outskirts.
January 4, 2008 at 9:37 PM #129626Bunny MeadowsParticipantYikes. Allan, I hope I didnt sound like a snob. My experience with FB has been pretty limited. Stopped off at the ice cream store one afternoon quite a while ago, and had dinner at Le Bistro one evening (it was after dark).
So, when I was en route to Pendleton today I was a little surprised by the rusted out mobile homes, etc.
I still very much like the idea of a place like Fallbrook, the small town feel, the gorgeous views, etc. and intend to spend more time looking around, exploring, and getting to know the area.
Thanks!
January 4, 2008 at 9:37 PM #129795Bunny MeadowsParticipantYikes. Allan, I hope I didnt sound like a snob. My experience with FB has been pretty limited. Stopped off at the ice cream store one afternoon quite a while ago, and had dinner at Le Bistro one evening (it was after dark).
So, when I was en route to Pendleton today I was a little surprised by the rusted out mobile homes, etc.
I still very much like the idea of a place like Fallbrook, the small town feel, the gorgeous views, etc. and intend to spend more time looking around, exploring, and getting to know the area.
Thanks!
January 4, 2008 at 9:37 PM #129802Bunny MeadowsParticipantYikes. Allan, I hope I didnt sound like a snob. My experience with FB has been pretty limited. Stopped off at the ice cream store one afternoon quite a while ago, and had dinner at Le Bistro one evening (it was after dark).
So, when I was en route to Pendleton today I was a little surprised by the rusted out mobile homes, etc.
I still very much like the idea of a place like Fallbrook, the small town feel, the gorgeous views, etc. and intend to spend more time looking around, exploring, and getting to know the area.
Thanks!
January 4, 2008 at 9:37 PM #129870Bunny MeadowsParticipantYikes. Allan, I hope I didnt sound like a snob. My experience with FB has been pretty limited. Stopped off at the ice cream store one afternoon quite a while ago, and had dinner at Le Bistro one evening (it was after dark).
So, when I was en route to Pendleton today I was a little surprised by the rusted out mobile homes, etc.
I still very much like the idea of a place like Fallbrook, the small town feel, the gorgeous views, etc. and intend to spend more time looking around, exploring, and getting to know the area.
Thanks!
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