I have spent some time in and around Santee both for work and visiting friends.
I personally have nothing against Santee – the commute would be bad for me working in North county.
The school scores are okay for elementary schools and closer to average for high school. I guess I would call the school score a non-issue for me – not good enough to entice me to come there and not bad enough to scare me away. My wife was a teacher at one point and I fully agree with whoever posted that, at least at the elementary school level, it is all about parent involvement – poor high school scores would scare me more.
I do agree that calling Santee full of mexicans is off – if anything I would think of Santee as pretty solidly middle to lower middle class and very white.
I think the problem with Santee at the moment is exactly what the original post was about – home prices in Santee are WAY too high for a place with a median household income in the mid 60k’s – I agree that wiki is a poor source to cite – city data is a little better:
I would not be opposed to living in Santee, but at the moment I can’t afford it without doing some form of horrible mortgage – at a median household income of 65K a year, the median house price in Santee should be 200K to 225K – not 400K+ – that is not a knock on Santee, it is just a statement based on the population’s income and how stupid the housing market is in San Diego. Someone with a graduate degree and a professional, decent paying job SHOULD be able to buy a house in Santee, right?
