[quote=Eve]About what bearishgurl said, since we have two kids, Chula Vista wouldn’t be ideal due to the schools despite the no/less Mello Roos.[/quote]

Chula Vista has excellent schools. Eve, have you been listening to the misinformed who have no knowledge of Chula Vista and have never been there themselves or have you actually researched Chula Vista schools yourself??

And portions of Chula Vista have MR as high or almost as high as 4S (although probably not for as long of a length of time).

In any case, Chula Vista is not an ideal location for a Poway worker. The commute can take more than an hour, one way.

Ramona is not “isolated” anymore. Have you been out there lately? It is self-contained now and has everything one could want except a mall. The Weisfield Parkway Plaza has been remodeled in recent years and is very nice, as are all the new “big box” stores in Santee that Ramona might lack.

My post was just to get you off the “nothing-but-new-construction-will-do-mindset” and get you to “think out of the box” a little to open up your options. Exorbitant MR aside, not everyone wants to live in a sterile cookie-cutter environment devoid of mature landscaping with no usable lot to speak of . . .

Not meaning to sound condescending here, Eve, but may I ask how long you have resided in SD County?