Its so far from anywheres that I need or want to go to in San Diego county!!!
Most work at least for technology jobs is in the UTC, Kearny Mesa or Sorrento Valley area or north in Carlsbad areas. These are far from La Mesa. Same goes for places like Chula Vista. It boggles my mind why to pay a lot for a place in either place. Now once a time if they were dirt cheap to buy that would explain the massive traffic heading west in the morning and east on the 8 freeway for the suckers who bought way out in La Mesa and El Cajon!!!
Unless you have a home business it makes zero sense to live in La Mesa!