Bg, your opposition to mello roos can be blinding. Let’s say you had two properties is chula vista, same house, different tracts. One cost 900k and had 1% tax,no hoa, the other cost 265k, had 300 in mr and 100 in hoa. The 900k one costs 4800 P%I, 480 in taxes, grand total (5280 house payment). The second one is 1420+600+100=2120. You still going to tell that young couple you can’t in good conscious sell them a 2120 out the door mortgage because it has extra fees.
If they both cost the same, then it’s not the same decision, but if there is a significant price differential, you need to go math crazy and not just shun something you have an aversion to.
Some of the people that head to temec do for different reasons but most of the posters are looking at about 25% of san diego county, you’d need hot pokers to get them to live in minority dominated communities or areas where english is not the primary language. It’s not right or wrong, let them be happy.
Me, I hate telephone poles, utility poles, it’s a long story, it’s partly irrational, it more about me and some weird bad luck having to do with earthquakes, wind storms, fires, but at some point I realized that me and utility poles are incompatible. When I’m in some communities that have wires strung eveywhere to the house from poles and poles all tilted, it’s all I see, it screws up my feng shui. Buckled sidewalks, weeds in the sidewalks, cracked roads and potholes, these things throw me off. Grocery stores with hobos out front, hate them, liquor stores on every corner and check cashing joints, make me uneasy. I also hate country areas, hate yardwork, hate land unless someone else does the work, I like concrete jungles, I like suburbia, I like it and that’s just that. Am I bad, am I racist, am I afraid, do I need re-education? None of the above, I just like things clean, I’m weird, I get it, so my choices are limited to about 20% of San Diego County if I were to ever live there again. Of my choices, my house would cost about 900k, I could pay it but I don’t want to and I wont be happy living in what 265k buys you in your county. I feel lucky that what I like happens to be cheap, I wish my wine tastes ran cheaper, but I can’t fix that.
You like something different, that’s cool, but trying to make others like what you like is like changing someone’s mind about religion.
Throwing down someone else’s world is never nice, but there are many of us that are completely unhappy if our travels take us south of highway 94, some of us, self included, hit the “get me the hell out of here” button on our gps once we find ourselves too far south. Some people have that feeling about being East of the 5, if they can’t see the ocean they will become depressed, I can’t change them, it’s how they are wired, unfortunately that’s an expensive wiring, but it is what it is.
