[quote=svelte]…We owned a condo in CV. When we were ready to buy a house, we looked in CV again. It was too expensive! We actually got more bang for our buck in San Marcos!
Also, weren’t you the one who kept saying that San Marcos streets were not up to normal code ordinances, poorly maintained, etc? This is nowhere close to fact, so I find it amusing that you are now up in arms over someone making statements about your neighborhood.[/quote]
Overall, it is true that SM housing is cheaper overall than Chula Vista, ESP if you were considering new construction built 2003 or after. This is likely due to the convenience factor (same as vis-a-vis CV/MM) and proximity of possible exposure to methane gas in SM (SEH).
I never stated that SM sts weren’t up to “code ordinances.” I stated the zoning was not there to begin with.
Actually, svelte, the last time I was in SM (dtn area) was ’99, when I looked at a couple of private-party vehicles from the Auto Trader. One vehicle was located on a street where houses and industrial type warehouses were mixed and some houses also backed into industrial shops/wrhses. Another was on a street which was still a partial dirt road with a dirt driveway. The dtn area of SM reminded me of areas of Spring Valley, Otay Mesa and Santee at the time. Partly due to the construction of SR-125, we all know those areas have now been upgraded and somewhat rezoned.
At that time, the area where you live (SEH) was still mostly open space adjacent to a large county landfill that was closed in part because the *new* multimillion-dollar recycling plant it was converted to ended up costing more to run than any potential revenues would generate, lol. After nearly ten years of litigation to expand it and add the (now failed) recycling plant, the County is still in the hole for at least $20M and is still today trying to successfully dump the land it sat on after doing minimal environmental mitigation work on it.
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