The neighborhoods of Las Palmas Ranch, Montclair, Quiet Hills, and Rancho Verde Estates (ranchoverdeestates.com) are all very nice and worth considering…the first two may get a little freeway noise, though. The further from those developments you get, the more eclectic Escondido gets so be wary.
One other thing worth pointing out about south Escondido: the old Chatham Brothers Barrel Yard located at 2257 Bernardo Ave. It is a superfund cleanup site – drive by and you’ll see vent tubes sticking out of the ground…it’s eery. The site used to be a barrel yard where trichloroethylene, benzene and polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs leaked into the ground water.
This leak formed a plume that headed southward towards Lake Hodges. This threat to the area water source lead to its inclusion on the superfund cleanup list. The water table below the site is slowly, year by year, being returned to an acceptable state.
