I didn’t suggest to the OP the awesome “cooler” (weather-wise) pads (some with 1/2 AC+ lots) he could consider in South County in his price range because we’re far too “blue” down here for his taste, lol … I didn’t want to suggest anything to him which would raise his blood pressure ;-P
The listing I suggested to him in semi-rural East County (EC post office) is 19.33 miles to the vicinity of the SD REI store, according to Mapquest and takes 23 minutes (44 minutes based upon current traffic). Apparently, it is still technically rush hour at the time of this post.
This is entirely doable for what he can get, imho. I haven’t checked Esco zip codes but this location is likely a few miles closer to work for him and certainly has less traffic to/from as East County was not developed like the rest of the county. There are very, very few CFD’s out there as it was mostly all developed by 1992 (acc to the County Master Plan). 95% of the CFD’s out there were formed within the City of Santee. My suggested listing is undoubtedly another “spec home.”
If I was raising kids all over again, I’d either raise them out there or stay in South County because I need “space” between neighbors :=0
edit: I just noticed from the map that if Mast Blvd in Santee is used (in lieu of the bottlenecked moon crater that is the SR-52) and the driver reconnects to the fwy before MCAS Miramar, it shaves 10-11 minutes off the drive in rush hour, making it 33-34 minutes.
