I hear you. I guess it’s a much better version of the exurban environment where I live in AZ.
I’d love nothing more than to live in an urban environment, but I can’t quite get used to the idea of living in a condo in the city of San Diego, for example. Seems like when you have kids you don’t have a lot of options but to live in the exurbs, unless you have tons of $$ to send them to private schools.
Are there any really good options in San Diego, where you can live in an attached home, for example, but in a great neighborhood that’s still close to everything? I like smaller homes, but some of the older neighborhoods in San Diego, for example, just look sort of dumpy to me, to be honest.