temeculaguy, I stand corrected. All those foreclosures probably won’t be meth labs.

I bought my first house in Valencia for $107K in 1986, paid 10% down and $1100 per month on a 10.75% 30-year conventional mortgage (including taxes and insurance). I sold it in 1991 for $179K, moved to Solana Beach and never looked back.

Valencia was a nice place to live, excellent schools, virtually no crime, etc. but it can’t compare to coastal San Diego. And Valencia was relatively close in compared to Palmdale, where the really cheap housing was in LA county. From Valencia I had a 25-minute commute to my job in Burbank, which I doubt is even possible in Temecula. Unless you’re commuting to Elsinore.