We’re not leaving Scripps. We knew we wanted to leave this particular house in Wine Country – rather near those two homes on Riesling you mentioned in your Scripps Monitor post – because it has a pool and it’s costing us a couple hundred extra a month to run the pump all day and top off the H2O. Also being an older home w/ the original windows it’s costly to keep it cool in summer as the windows are only single paned and the home faces east/west so we get sun on all the windows all day.
On the good side we love the neighbors – great family people w/ kids with whom we hope to remain friends after we move. Also, the owner/prop. mgr. re-did the home w/ new carpets, hardwood, appliances, counters, ducting, etc. so all in all it’s a nice home and ‘hood, we’re just living on one income and the extra few hundred a mo. in pool and A/C costs can be put to better use in our budget.
We’d looked at moving to Del Mar area to cut down on husband’s commute but found mostly run down shacks in our price range so re-focused on Scripps/Poway/RB/Sabre Springs/4S and lucked out on a newer place in Scripps w/ no pool.
