SD Realtor, I stand guilty as charged and playing the law of averages. Mira Mesa isn’t my favorite place, but since I’ve worked there and lived around it, I know it reasonably well. It is NOT a ghetto, but it is solidly lower middle and middle income housing. Parts on the north and western sides are ok, the middle is mostly aging housing stock with large densely packed populations.
Now there is a reason why people pay more to live someplaces than others in San Diego. Is it the weather, partly. Is it the conveniences and architectures, yep partly that too. What most people really want to pay for though is a, “good neighborhood.” What that means doesn’t vary all that much, to the protestation of many. It generally means low density, well educated, higher income and good schools. I’m sure you can find plenty of people to say Mira Mesa is great, but I’d bet my last dollar that very few who make 80k and have a large pool of money to buy with would consider it a first, second or even third choice.
The sheer ludicrous-iosity of the statement helped to highlight how off the rails we got. I just latched on to that statement as a poster child if you will of how badly we have lost our bearings; how we had become so numb to the vast sums of money being spent, even wasted, to secure ourselves a home.
Sometimes my posts are hastily written, but not that one. I live in Northpark which in many ways is just like Mira Mesa. Its older housing, meant for lower middle income earners. Its near jobs and services, yet it is lacking in many ways. In short its a decent place to live, but not great. At what point though have you worked hard enough that you are entitled to more? At what point do you say, f#$%k that, I’ve worked to hard to settle for a 1971 tear down behind Fudruckers. I don’t want 17 neighbor cars parked in front of my house, or alarms going off every night. I’d say at 80k a year and that much for a downpayment certainly justifies that sentiment.
So the correction continues, until balance is restored.
