[quote=jpinpb]Sure I can afford to live in the outskirts or ghetto. Just b/c I can afford it, doesn’t mean it is a good financial move, or even safe move.
There are some pretty cheap homes that have come up in City Heights that are close to 2001 pricing. Just b/c I can afford it doesn’t mean I should buy there just for the sake of living in San Diego. While I’m not aspiring to live in Del Mar or La Jolla, I’d like to do better than City Heights.
For me, I guess as long as I can rent somewhere decent, then buying isn’t an urgency. It would be nice to find something to buy close to what I’m renting in my area.[/quote]
I agree that if rent is really cheaper than buying, there’s no urgency.
But I’m talking about quiet family neighborhoods in communities where many life-long SD folks live: San Carlos, Allied Gardens, La Mesa. And I know there are modest and descent neighborhoods in Linda Vista, National City, College, Lemon Grove, etc.
City Heights and Southeast are mostly families. There are problems, but SD does not have a ghetto. Ask anyone from Philly.
Friends of mine who’ve moved here from elsewhere will take nothing but costal. They say, “I came all the way from ___, and I have to live on the beach.” Maybe San Diego natives take the beach for granted, but I’ve never felt the need to live on the beach (or any “aspirant” neighborhood), and to leverage my life and $$ in unhealthy ways to achieve it.
