[quote=sdrealtor]Downtown Sd has better construction? nearly every building there has massive defect litigation underway.
Carlsbad aka “Gridlocked Nirvana”? I can drive in any direction hitting little traffic. Getting around the urban core I have to stop nearly every 100 yds. I can park in my driveway or garage (if I ever got rid of the crap I have in there) and an unlimited number of my friends can park in the street outfront. Downtown I would have 1 or 2 under ground parking spots a long walk from my condo. My friends would have to pay $10 to $20 to park outside or run out every 2 hours to feed a meter.
Yes we have lower income residents. But they dont stand on the street corners urinating in doorways and harassing people walking down the street.
I do agree on different strokes for different folks and I see the value of downtown/urban living. To the contrary, it took you this long to get to different strokes for different folks having started at why would anyone live in Carlsbad or any of the newer communities in NC. Its easily as convenient to live up her and far more relaxed. Now you understand why.[/quote]
sdr, your post here speaks only of the hardships of living in NEWER DTN CONDOS in 92101 but not of any of the other urban areas I described, where you CAN park on the street outside a house or share a driveway with someone you are visiting. I do this all the time.
I wasn’t even thinking of condos in my “urban-living diatribe” and don’t think condos are even a good investment. I was just referring to SFR’s but I guess I didn’t make that clear. I have a meter card and two parking-garage remotes but I understand your frustration in this regard. Once you leave dtn. SD, you don’t have to “stop every 100 yards.” I lived on Bankers Hill for about 3 years when SD was a relaxed “ghost town” on the weekends but that was over 35 years ago . . . lol.
