[quote=urbanrealtor][quote=sdcellar]Sorry, but I don’t think it’s gotten *that* much nicer in the last 10 years. Cheap money is the significant driver.[/quote]
No.
There has been a national shift in housing preference.
But that preference does not translate into demand.
The cheap money you reference does.
But the reason people spend $400,000 (which seems like a lot of money to me) on a 2br/1ba place in South Park when they could buy a 4br/2ba house in Santee is preference.

Lots of people who come here really have a jones for urban living.

See, that why I’m *urban* realtor with the condos and the walking….and the stuff…[/quote]That preference is not a new phenomenon either. You would know better than I, but there has been ample interest in urban living (in San Diego) for some time now. I’d say easily for the entire decade of the naughts.