[quote=AN][quote=The-Shoveler][quote=mixxalot]I know a guy who commutes daily from Dana Point to San Diego for work! Now that is pure insanity![/quote]
I imagine this is the same type of thing that happens to almost everyone in L.A. (although in this case a little more extreme maybe).
You starting out buying a home 15 minutes from work, then you get laid off and your next gig is 40-60 miles away.
I could see someone who got laid off from QCOM getting a Job in Irvine etc…
To top it off our spouse still works Local LOL. (I have seen it happen many times).[/quote]This is why LA is a big giant clusterf*ck and I wouldn’t want to live there. People like BG is trying to make SD into the next LA. But I’m glad SD’s city leader actually have good urban planner in place. Which is why most of the jobs are in UTC/Sorrento Valley area. With a smaller subset in Carlsbad, Rancho Bernardo, Downtown. It’s much easier to build public transit when you only have a handful of places people need to go to during working days. I get exciting seeing new high rises popping up in UTC/Sorrento Valley area.[/quote]How am I trying to make SD into the next LA? It can never be LA. Save for some of its crowded beach areas (ex: Santa Monica, Venice), LA County was planned a helluva lot better than SD County was. That massive tangle of freeways in LA County which frustrate you the most are used by SIX COUNTIES of semi-local worker bees every weekday! I-10 in Vernon (~5-8 mi east of dtn LA) is also the END of a MAJOR coast-to-coast long-haul trucking route (busiest in the nation), further clogging the interstate east of LA. LA County’s freeway congestion is not entirely (or even half) the fault of its own residents or leadership!
We don’t have that big of a problem here in SD as we only have ONE COUNTY here with a few scattered work centers and a few (150-200K?) commuters into/out of SD County every day from southern RIV Co and southern OC. Even so, SD County’s freeways can still be congested because it is grossly OVERBUILT and so is southern RIV County (with few to zero “job centers” forcing nearly ALL of its worker-bee residents to commute out-of county to their jobs). That is NOT the case with LA county and Ventura County, and, to a lesser extent, Orange County. Those three counties are, for the most part, self contained, have ample jobs for their residents and NOT overbuilt. Not only were these counties “out of room” long before SD County was, their wiser leadership did not permit subdivisions on every single strip of land which “appeared” buildable as SD County and its cities did. Our neighboring counties to the north preserved their open space … as they should have. Ventura County appears to (stupidly) still be issuing subdivision permits in Porter Ranch but that is grossly inferior land. Its soil is toxic, the (permanent) damage from its former uses was never properly mitigated and it should have never been allowed to be built on. It’s an environmental disaster!
When residential developers have to resort to building on toxic waste sites in SoCal, it is wa-a-a-y past time for them to pack up and leave the state.
