I grew up in Redlands and my mom finally sold our family home 2 years ago. It’s a great community. I took my kids for a neighborhood walk on a visit before my mom sold. No one knew me after all I moved out when I went to college. The neighbors invited us into their backyard for a tour, gave us some fruit because their son went to high school the same time as 1 of my siblings.
Since then I’ve lived in Yorba Linda, Irvine and now the bay area. I never had that same sense of community and friendliness in any other place. But it’s HOT there and the smog in the 70’s when I was growing up was awful. It’s much better now but still smoggy. I plan to retire back to Southern California (someday) but not Redlands because of the heat.
