[quote=briansd1][quote=UCGal]
I have to agree with AN here. [/quote]

I also agree with AN and UCGal. Commuting is not to and from downtown anymore.

But still, I believe that people would rather buy new than old. That’s why over time, the old neighborhoods are abandoned for the new cities and suburbs. Granted, redevelopment has stopped that to some extent since the late 1990s; but families with kids are still not moving back to the city.

We need to find ways to get families to move back to the city and abandon the suburban myth. It’s interesting to me that in Europe, families prefer to live in the urban core.

IMHO, it’s better to rebuild and renew the infrastructure we already have than sprawling out to new raw land.

Maybe $10 gas will do that.[/quote]

Having lived in SF before SD, I think cities tend to favor businesses rather than families to live there. At least SF was this way. More tax dollars. City life isn’t that great neither and unless you are into going out all the time or work there, city living just gets you more bums, dog shit allover the sidewalk (in SF at least), more noise, pollution, traffic, car alarms, ambulances practically daily/nightly, partiers going home at 2am on friday nights…Parking sucks too.

no thanks…

especially for folks with families…Also, the school situation is probably random/lottery (SF is this way I think) making parents with kids hesitant rather than going to private school if they don’t get their school pick. Most would rather just move to the burbs of del mar or anywhere in the PUSD.

I suppose for some of us, I don’t see the attraction of city living at all (having lived it myself).