Mira Mesa is a “working class” community of SD and has always been so. The only reason for its higher prices today is because of nearby large employers in the tech and biotech industry and the fact that the freeways around there are very congested during the long rush hours (2-3 hrs in the morning and 3+ hours in the afternoon/evening). The big older subdivisions and their micro areas in Mira Mesa are comparable with older areas of Lemon Grove, National City, Chula Vista and Linda Vista except they are slightly newer (mostly ’70’s and ’80’s) and have way more cars parked on their residential streets than do all the communities above except for Linda Vista. The quality of life isn’t “better” for someone living in MM than almost any other “working class” area of SD County but the daily commute is way less for MM-resident workers in the “north city job centers” than for the residents of other, more charming, “heavily treed” working class communities with bigger lots.
I have nothing against longtime residents of MM and realize that people like to live where they already have family in place but it is not for everyone cuz not everyone wants to live tightly packed like MM has become with all its *new* giant apt complexes. Again, MM is nothing special but it just so happened to be already situated in the “right place” when high tech and biotech employers decided to set up shop in SD. Good for them.
