“close enough to the City we could still easily meet our friends who live in Hillcrest and South Park for drinks or dinner”
it’s easy to say this – are you really going to spend an hour in the car on a weeknight? – same with the beach – it is easy to say, “we’re only 30 minutes from the beach”, but are you really going to get in the car and drive there?
I lived in Rancho Penasquitos for awhile and felt isolated from what I consider to be the City
something else to consider: if you move to Santee or San Carlos, what are you going to do when you start Jones’n for a fix at the Chicken Pie Shop?