[quote=The-Shoveler]
Most people still want to live in the burbs with a three car garage, good sized yard etc.. if they can afford it anyway.[/quote]
I think it has to do with what stage of life they are in. I know many co-workers in their 20s who lived in and were all about downtown SD or Little Italy or PB.
By then they turned 30, got married, have kids on the way, and they’ve all left for the suburbs: Poway, Penasquitos, RB, 78 corridor. As you say, the garage and yard start speaking to them in a big way.