I’m not knocking Clairemont by any means – it’s the first area I lived in when I moved to San Diego almost 20 years ago – I feel comfortable there because it is very similar to the neighborhoods that I grew up in
it is a central location with easy access to all the major freeways
I will definitely be buying in Clairemont at the bottom (2012 or so in case you have forgotten)
I suspect that Clairemont will be one of the areas that ‘pops’ in the next RE up-cycle – people will be tearing down the 1950’s junk and building overly large, expensive homes on the lots (unless we have come to our senses by then)