Matt, there is a reason you aren’t as popular as I, no need for me to point it out but since you took me on point by point I will respond. For being nearly a two decade Temeculan it suprises me how unhappy you are here, how much signs of wealth or cosmetically enhanced women bother you, I say bring it on. We have a few years, one of us will be right, but for now we can agree to disagree.
Abbot is not the largest employer, Pechanga is, in fact it is the largest in the County, zero apartments within walking distance of it.
Lets see..spanish speakers, check the demographics on the state school website, other than the two elem schools near apartments on Solano and in Old Town, it’s a negligible amount, look at Redhawk Elem, Jackson, Pauba, Tobin or any of the other schools in the 40k plus population South Temecula that has one apartment building which is high end anyway and still not walkable to a grocery store. Those schools have scores, english language learner and free lunch numbers comparable to Poway and San Digueto districts.
Did I design the city? No. But I have employed “live in” maids over the years and there was no way to get them to their family or to services so that is where that “data” is from. While city transit services have improved, a mile walk to a store is not like you will find in Escondido. Have you been on Ash Street in Esco, name one area of Temecula where you will not find a blond kid in the school, visit Escondido, please.
Truth is, the town you loved isn’t as small as you remember anymore and for that you hate it. We have been here the same amount of time and it hasn’t bothered me to see growth and change, it’s different, not better or worse but different, the crime increased slightly but is still ranks amongst any suburb and has more officers per resident than any town in San Diego County with the exception of Carlsbad (which it is tied with).
You want a hangover of the excess that came from S.D and O.C., but it will be saved by it’s charm as not being as bad as other areas. We travel in different circles, but I assure you there are plenty of people like myself, people that earn six figure salaries and don’t commute or pay for gas, for that reason and that reason alone it will survive, with or without you, but it will not turn into the crime ridden area you yearn for. Seriously, you can get a golf course view for 300k now, how bad do you think it will get? I’ve been drinking, as is common on weekends so I will end my rant, but tomorrow, work permitting I’ll reread these points and counter each and every one. While I’m away, name the cheap apartments near S. 79 that you can walk to a grocery store. They don’t exist. I hope you have a chunk of change stored away matt, this correction isn’t going to last forever, you have a year, maybe two and then you will be priced out forever, that’s not me being bullish, that’s the cold reality. After that it is “welcome to hemet.”
You want proof of the importation of the elderly to satisfy low income housing, you are invited to go to church and have breakfast with my grandmother and I, who lives in city owned elderly housing that I learned of from the city who was desperate to keep it’s federal road tax money and needed the elderly who lived on social security. they also dropped a few million on the senior center, one of the reasons she would never accept my offer to live rent free at my place beacuse there is so much to do in her neck of the woods.
I haven’t bought back in, i think there is another 10% or more to go, but if you need 20 cents on the dollar to buy a house, good luck with that.
Your quality of life may have decreased, mine has gone up, I wanted a mall, restaraunts, stuff to do, cosmetically enhanced women to leer at and if the 22’s bother you, get 23’s.
These latest numbers will seperate the reverse flippers from the posers, waiting hawk was a prime example of someone who waited for their time. South Temecula has reached $100 a square, for me, my dream house is two years pay, that is just silly by any mathematical formula, if and when San Diegans can buy a nice house with good schools for two years pay, this site will be a piece of history and I firmly believe that day will come.
