“The La Jolla of East County” comes from the city of Santee’s government. Santee will NEVER be La Jolla. La Jolla is La Jolla, because it’s at the beach. The phrase was coined to compare their vision of Santee to being the “Jewel of East County”.
In East County, that is already sort of the idea in most peoples minds.
There are many places in East County that the home prices are in the 800k plus price range. In Lakeside there is Eucalytus Hills. El Cajon has Mount Helix. Alpine has its secluded gated home communities, and of course there are more I haven’t listed.
Santee has none of those kinds of communities. Many of these areas don’t even have high performing schools, yet people pay those prices. It really dosen’t make sense, because Santee IS nicer than all of them, with the exception of Alpine. Alpine is a part of El Cajon though, not a city itself.
Lakeside, El Cajon, and La Mesa are just not as “NICE”. Even though they have the pocket areas that are much higher in price.
So to me it makes sense to have communities in the 800k price range coming in. It’s actually over due in my mind.
I don’t think it is faster to get to Ramona than to La Jolla. By the way Ramona has more 800k plus areas than Santee and IMO it’s not as nice either.
What is with all the hate on Santee?
