Outtamojo, 2 things that aren’t great about Sky Ranch:
1. You can’t walk or bike to any shopping. You could, but it’s a little far. You are located up on a mountain, so you’ll need to drive to shopping, etc. However, there are plenty of streets to excercise and walk around in the community.
2. The areas just below the Sky Ranch community aren’t as captivating. When you drive through Rancho Bernardo, Carlsbad, Carmel Valley, etc., you can see the city/community has put a lot of money into the landscaping and look and feel of everything. Many areas of Santee are older and undergoing redevelopment, so you have OLD areas mixed in with NEW. Yet, once you start driving up the mountain to Sky Ranch, it’s a totally different look and feel. Mission Gorge has more new areas now than old, but you still see some of the mobile home estates, which you wouldn’t see in Carmel Valley, LJ, RB, etc. In addition, there isn’t as much money around in Santee versus like Carmel Valley, but it’s a very, kick back, home town kind of feel. My family and I have eaten at several restaurants in town, and we were suprised at how laid back and nice everyone ones. No one seems to have an attitude, if you know what I mean. Almost a back east, country feel, in a good way.[/quote]
I can’t answer that question per se because it’s not my price range, but my understanding would be
1)CV is built out. SantaLuz, probably has a much higher risk due to it’s completely a new community. (Didn’t they stop construction due to lack of interest)/
2)CV more convenient to booth the 805,5,56 (which means it’s easiest to go north, south, east, and fall into the ocean if you travel west.
3)Mello Ruse(sic) in SantaLuz a doozy
4)School district
5)Proximity to Sorrento Valley
6)Slightly milder climate than inland
7)I probably missed a couple of other things, but I’ll ask my friend if they considered why SantaLuz didn’t make the cut. Think they they paid with about 60% down.
8)People like the plethora of hot snooty blond soccer moms…I don’t know.
Probably not one of anything remarkable. But it’s probably the complete package thing…And the close proxity to companies with higher paying jobs who can supposedly support some of this insanity, at least it makes more sense statistically than areas where there are fewer higher paying jobs.
You saying that SantaLuz/4S has as easy access to 56 tells me you really aren’t familiar with these areas.
If you did, you would know (as many people already know) that morning traffic is always bad 56 westbound, while 56 eastbound you could go 100+ all from the start to the end of 56 if it weren’t for those pesky CHP’s that clock you at 75…Because there is virtually no traffic eastbound. Similarly, the opposite is true in the evening when going 56 east is really bad as you approach the 56/15 interchange while 56 westbound is pretty loose.
Someone who purchases in 4s would drive themselves nuts commuting to sorrento valley to work and coming home, simply because they would be hitting traffic both ways.
On the other hand, being in CV/DelMar, you take local streets to Sorrento Valley, and if you did need to go to rancho bernardo, for instance to work, you go against the flow of rush hour, which (and I do this many times) about 22-5 mins, depending on whether you drive like a pansy @70 or drive like a maniac at closer to 90 (not recommended on 56)…Your commute to La Jolla would be about 15 mins, naming due to the blockage at Genesse if you use 5 or slightly better if you use 805 and get off of La Jolla Village Drive. Getting to downtown LJ Shores is a wash, because it’s a pain to get down there regardless of which direction you’re coming from.
Your morning commute to Carlsbad is about 20 mins, 25-30 mins to Legoland, and probably around the same amount of time to the Del Mar fairgrounds (maybe less, I don’t go regularly). It’s about 20 mins to Convoy to eat for cheap, for which you love to gorge, but for which your snooty personality, you don’t want those hole in the wall places in your neighborhood detracting from your hood…as well as the Target, HomeDepot, Walmarts, and Costcos that you like to go to, but really don’t want in your neighborhood either.
The key i think (and it’s just my opinion) is easy of access to the 5/805/56 corridor, specifically the 5/805, since by the very nature of San Diego, you can get to most of the main places on 5/805, and the drain on time is pretty much getting onto the freeway.
I can think of a bunch of negatives too. But just saying since you asked.
BTW: living on a 1 acre of land, care to calculate how much maintenance cost would be for irrigation/electricity/gas/etc? Some folks I know in RSF have provided some figures for me, and it seems like that maintenance cost would pretty much cancel out a pretty good portion of some cost savings…..You’re getting pretty defensive of said Santee. Still wondering why need to need so much positive affirmation from a blog.I’ll say it again, enjoy your home in Santee..Good luck if you’re depending on home prices doing better there relative to the rest of San Diego.
