Well, I’m back from a weekend in San Diego. I’m still formulating my philosophy as to what will make my kids turn out (hopefully) successful. Some combination of environment, peers, parenting, and the kid.
Anyhow there weren’t that many signs or open houses up in Mira Mesa except up and down Calle Cristobal. Encinitas on the other hand — there were a ton of signs along El Camino. A particularly large nest of realtor and FSBOs on El Camino and Manchester.
There are definitely dumpy parts of Mira Mesa — it’s sort of a street-by-street thing. But, since we’re planning to do an old-fashioned 20 percent down, 30-year fixed, it’s where we’re headed. Unless the market totally tanks and I can get a little beach shack across from Swamis for the same money 😉 But my data-deficient instinct says the really big cuts will be in places like San Elijo Hills, Temecula, Murrieta, Santee, etc rather than on the beach. We drove from LA down the 15 and they’ve got billboards for inland developments all over the place. I’ll make a count the next time I drive down.
