Like Allan I was in Temecula last Saturday for the Pop Warner weigh-in festivities. We had an early scrimmage in Fullerton, had to drive across 91 and over to Temecula. As an aside, this was my first time on 91… that was 20 miles of my life I’d like to have back. That was worse than the I-5 Coastal slowdown around Solana Beach any day.
Finally we make it to the Winchester exit where traffic is stacked up about a mile to exit the freeway. It was another 15-20 minutes (counting the wait on 15) to arrive at Chapparal HS.
So while to each his own, I would try and find a job in Texas if I couldn’t get a good home in Temecula for around 200K. Of course I’d only move there if I was working in that area but that’s because I hate sitting in traffic. In any case being an 1-1.5 hours to the beach might mean Temecula should be a little higher than Texas, but not double.
I actually haven’t put any hard numbers to this, but my guess is 350K or so around Encinitas will be some kind of trigger point. If a couple years from now, I can’t find a decent SFH in that range, I might think about the Texas thing. That number is really just out of thin air to be honest. The 565K home in my other post wouldn’t seem too bad at 380k.
