No matter what you say bearishgirl Ramona is not a place I would want to live. Yes there are some nice mansions in the hills (still wouldn’t want ’em though), but that’s not what your getting for $350k. Plus the downtown is a dump IMO, I have driven through it a thousand times going out to hike. The thought of hanging out in downtown Ramona for my Sunday stroll makes me shiver. And it’s so damn hot & brown in the summers and far from everything. To me it would suck to live in Ramona period. And Lakeside too. Santee is a little better barely, but no character there, still yuck and no really downtown, just big box chain land down Mission Gorge.
Yeah I guess if you are super “horsey” type of person and got a nice ranch on some acreage in Ramona or Lakeside, maybe for someone. There are definitely tons of cool rural areas in other states and other parts of NorCal I would live, but to me most of East County is just not “quaint rural”.
