manmom, i have written often about the poor areas of poway; i think last spring i said that about half of poway is poor. Just wrote a post yesterday about the 2 sides of poway: unique older homes in green valley, my favorite neighborhood, as well as bridlewood, gatewood hills, lomas verdes estates. highland valley is too rural for me. then we have the poorer areas with small homes, where we’re getting most of the NODs and foreclosures now: garden rd, community rd, and pomerado rd areas. lots of ugly poor homes in poway too. lots of look-alike tract homes in the ultra rich maderas estates, where the athletes buy their $3 mil and more homes. all houses look the same. been there, don’t care for it personally.