Add me to the club that disagrees that PQ was ever lower middle class.
And I find it funny to call PQ a bedroom community when compared to Chula Vista. Sure it’s a bedroom community because there are only a few largeish employers in PQ proper… but many are nearby. Just my personal observations (based on watching freeway congestion) More people commute OUT of Chula Vista than into it.
Like a large percentage of San Diego county residents, I work in Sorrento Valley. Qualcomm (largest private employer in the county), Websense, etc are all here. And Torrey Pines is home to most of the biotech/pharma. For many, this is where the jobs are.
But southbay has NASSCO, 32nd street, North Island, etc… so there are jobs in south bay. I guess it’s all persepective. You see people around you that have reasonably short commutes – because they purchased near their job, or because they sought jobs close by. I see the same thing in the North part of San Diego…. (Except those coworkers who bought in Otay because they wanted BIG houses for less than 4S prices.)
