Allan: Fallbrook question

[Bunny Meadows]

hey allan,

I drove through “the brook” today, on my way to Camp Pendleton. I really, really, really want to love fallbrook. It has that small town feel that i like.

However, on my drive there was some slightly depressing scenery: really downtrodden mobile homes (they looked like they were falling apart and rusted out), nasty shops and an overall downtrodden look. It certainly didnt help that the weather was gloomy.

the area around Le Bistro and Cafe Privo (espresso bar) are quaint – but 1/2 mile west of there and it feels almost like a third-world country.

Am I missing something? Are there other parts of town that I’m just not seeing?

BTW, I dont expect to live in a perfect place. I’ve lived in Chicago, NYC and a “transitional” neighborhood in Atlanta where my roommate kept a shotgun by the front door.

What I’m trying to say is that I dont need to live in a sanitized place (in fact, it’s one of the things that bugs me about Temecula). I just want to learn more about FB.

I really appreciate your input.

Bunny

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Bunny: Well, gee, I don’t exactly know how to answer this one. Yep, there are parts of F’brook that are a little downtrodden (to use your word), but, overall, it is a nice place to live.

I would recommend doing more than just a drive through. Take a long afternoon and look around – all the way around – meaning the entire town. I have been here over four years now, but would be the first one to say that it isn’t for everyone.

I grew up in a small town as well, and that is the one thing that I really like about Fallbrook. There is a very strange dichotomy here: There is a great deal of affluence, juxtaposed with a very working class environment.

Start at the end of Mission Road, where it intersects with Highway 76. That shopping center is River Village (and is technically Bonsall). Work your way up Mission back towards town. When you hit Mission Road and Main, turn back around at Main and head through the center of town, making certain to hit the side streets around Mission. Best street to use for that is Alvarado. Nose around and take your time. If you still have issues, I would recommend looking at Bonsall as well.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Bunny: Well, gee, I don’t exactly know how to answer this one. Yep, there are parts of F’brook that are a little downtrodden (to use your word), but, overall, it is a nice place to live.

I would recommend doing more than just a drive through. Take a long afternoon and look around – all the way around – meaning the entire town. I have been here over four years now, but would be the first one to say that it isn’t for everyone.

I grew up in a small town as well, and that is the one thing that I really like about Fallbrook. There is a very strange dichotomy here: There is a great deal of affluence, juxtaposed with a very working class environment.

Start at the end of Mission Road, where it intersects with Highway 76. That shopping center is River Village (and is technically Bonsall). Work your way up Mission back towards town. When you hit Mission Road and Main, turn back around at Main and head through the center of town, making certain to hit the side streets around Mission. Best street to use for that is Alvarado. Nose around and take your time. If you still have issues, I would recommend looking at Bonsall as well.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Bunny: Well, gee, I don’t exactly know how to answer this one. Yep, there are parts of F’brook that are a little downtrodden (to use your word), but, overall, it is a nice place to live.

I would recommend doing more than just a drive through. Take a long afternoon and look around – all the way around – meaning the entire town. I have been here over four years now, but would be the first one to say that it isn’t for everyone.

I grew up in a small town as well, and that is the one thing that I really like about Fallbrook. There is a very strange dichotomy here: There is a great deal of affluence, juxtaposed with a very working class environment.

Start at the end of Mission Road, where it intersects with Highway 76. That shopping center is River Village (and is technically Bonsall). Work your way up Mission back towards town. When you hit Mission Road and Main, turn back around at Main and head through the center of town, making certain to hit the side streets around Mission. Best street to use for that is Alvarado. Nose around and take your time. If you still have issues, I would recommend looking at Bonsall as well.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Bunny: Well, gee, I don’t exactly know how to answer this one. Yep, there are parts of F’brook that are a little downtrodden (to use your word), but, overall, it is a nice place to live.

I would recommend doing more than just a drive through. Take a long afternoon and look around – all the way around – meaning the entire town. I have been here over four years now, but would be the first one to say that it isn’t for everyone.

I grew up in a small town as well, and that is the one thing that I really like about Fallbrook. There is a very strange dichotomy here: There is a great deal of affluence, juxtaposed with a very working class environment.

Start at the end of Mission Road, where it intersects with Highway 76. That shopping center is River Village (and is technically Bonsall). Work your way up Mission back towards town. When you hit Mission Road and Main, turn back around at Main and head through the center of town, making certain to hit the side streets around Mission. Best street to use for that is Alvarado. Nose around and take your time. If you still have issues, I would recommend looking at Bonsall as well.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Bunny: Well, gee, I don’t exactly know how to answer this one. Yep, there are parts of F’brook that are a little downtrodden (to use your word), but, overall, it is a nice place to live.

I would recommend doing more than just a drive through. Take a long afternoon and look around – all the way around – meaning the entire town. I have been here over four years now, but would be the first one to say that it isn’t for everyone.

I grew up in a small town as well, and that is the one thing that I really like about Fallbrook. There is a very strange dichotomy here: There is a great deal of affluence, juxtaposed with a very working class environment.

Start at the end of Mission Road, where it intersects with Highway 76. That shopping center is River Village (and is technically Bonsall). Work your way up Mission back towards town. When you hit Mission Road and Main, turn back around at Main and head through the center of town, making certain to hit the side streets around Mission. Best street to use for that is Alvarado. Nose around and take your time. If you still have issues, I would recommend looking at Bonsall as well.

[temeculaguy]

Bunny, while i don’t live in the brook it is the town next door and I have worked there in years past. What you need to realize it that in any agricultural area, you are going to have workers and they have to live somewhere. There is a very large Guatemalen population, low paid enlisted and their families and civilian military service workers. The majority of Fallbrook is gentlemen ranchers and the well to do but the cheap housing is located within walking distance to shops so it is overly visible. Your (my) sanitized temecula has poor people too, they just clustered the low income housing in certain areas and out of view (accross the river from old town and at Margarita and Solano). While you may have lived in some Major cities, a farming town within an hours drive of a third world country was’t on it, so it may take some getting used to. We natives tend to not notice these things even in plain view because most of us don’t see the farm workers as a threat, for the most part they are harmless.

Fallbrook has some beautiful homes, but most are not visible from the main roads and even more are off easements or nestled in the trees or hills away from view, it’s a different type of people and not the “look at my big house” type so you have to follow Allan’s advice and get off the main roads and tour the outskirts.

[temeculaguy]

Bunny, while i don’t live in the brook it is the town next door and I have worked there in years past. What you need to realize it that in any agricultural area, you are going to have workers and they have to live somewhere. There is a very large Guatemalen population, low paid enlisted and their families and civilian military service workers. The majority of Fallbrook is gentlemen ranchers and the well to do but the cheap housing is located within walking distance to shops so it is overly visible. Your (my) sanitized temecula has poor people too, they just clustered the low income housing in certain areas and out of view (accross the river from old town and at Margarita and Solano). While you may have lived in some Major cities, a farming town within an hours drive of a third world country was’t on it, so it may take some getting used to. We natives tend to not notice these things even in plain view because most of us don’t see the farm workers as a threat, for the most part they are harmless.

Fallbrook has some beautiful homes, but most are not visible from the main roads and even more are off easements or nestled in the trees or hills away from view, it’s a different type of people and not the “look at my big house” type so you have to follow Allan’s advice and get off the main roads and tour the outskirts.

[temeculaguy]

Bunny, while i don’t live in the brook it is the town next door and I have worked there in years past. What you need to realize it that in any agricultural area, you are going to have workers and they have to live somewhere. There is a very large Guatemalen population, low paid enlisted and their families and civilian military service workers. The majority of Fallbrook is gentlemen ranchers and the well to do but the cheap housing is located within walking distance to shops so it is overly visible. Your (my) sanitized temecula has poor people too, they just clustered the low income housing in certain areas and out of view (accross the river from old town and at Margarita and Solano). While you may have lived in some Major cities, a farming town within an hours drive of a third world country was’t on it, so it may take some getting used to. We natives tend to not notice these things even in plain view because most of us don’t see the farm workers as a threat, for the most part they are harmless.

Fallbrook has some beautiful homes, but most are not visible from the main roads and even more are off easements or nestled in the trees or hills away from view, it’s a different type of people and not the “look at my big house” type so you have to follow Allan’s advice and get off the main roads and tour the outskirts.

[temeculaguy]

Bunny, while i don’t live in the brook it is the town next door and I have worked there in years past. What you need to realize it that in any agricultural area, you are going to have workers and they have to live somewhere. There is a very large Guatemalen population, low paid enlisted and their families and civilian military service workers. The majority of Fallbrook is gentlemen ranchers and the well to do but the cheap housing is located within walking distance to shops so it is overly visible. Your (my) sanitized temecula has poor people too, they just clustered the low income housing in certain areas and out of view (accross the river from old town and at Margarita and Solano). While you may have lived in some Major cities, a farming town within an hours drive of a third world country was’t on it, so it may take some getting used to. We natives tend to not notice these things even in plain view because most of us don’t see the farm workers as a threat, for the most part they are harmless.

Fallbrook has some beautiful homes, but most are not visible from the main roads and even more are off easements or nestled in the trees or hills away from view, it’s a different type of people and not the “look at my big house” type so you have to follow Allan’s advice and get off the main roads and tour the outskirts.

[temeculaguy]

Bunny, while i don’t live in the brook it is the town next door and I have worked there in years past. What you need to realize it that in any agricultural area, you are going to have workers and they have to live somewhere. There is a very large Guatemalen population, low paid enlisted and their families and civilian military service workers. The majority of Fallbrook is gentlemen ranchers and the well to do but the cheap housing is located within walking distance to shops so it is overly visible. Your (my) sanitized temecula has poor people too, they just clustered the low income housing in certain areas and out of view (accross the river from old town and at Margarita and Solano). While you may have lived in some Major cities, a farming town within an hours drive of a third world country was’t on it, so it may take some getting used to. We natives tend to not notice these things even in plain view because most of us don’t see the farm workers as a threat, for the most part they are harmless.

Fallbrook has some beautiful homes, but most are not visible from the main roads and even more are off easements or nestled in the trees or hills away from view, it’s a different type of people and not the “look at my big house” type so you have to follow Allan’s advice and get off the main roads and tour the outskirts.

[Bunny Meadows]

Yikes. Allan, I hope I didnt sound like a snob. My experience with FB has been pretty limited. Stopped off at the ice cream store one afternoon quite a while ago, and had dinner at Le Bistro one evening (it was after dark).

So, when I was en route to Pendleton today I was a little surprised by the rusted out mobile homes, etc.

I still very much like the idea of a place like Fallbrook, the small town feel, the gorgeous views, etc. and intend to spend more time looking around, exploring, and getting to know the area.

Thanks!

[Bunny Meadows]

Yikes. Allan, I hope I didnt sound like a snob. My experience with FB has been pretty limited. Stopped off at the ice cream store one afternoon quite a while ago, and had dinner at Le Bistro one evening (it was after dark).

So, when I was en route to Pendleton today I was a little surprised by the rusted out mobile homes, etc.

I still very much like the idea of a place like Fallbrook, the small town feel, the gorgeous views, etc. and intend to spend more time looking around, exploring, and getting to know the area.

Thanks!

[Bunny Meadows]

Yikes. Allan, I hope I didnt sound like a snob. My experience with FB has been pretty limited. Stopped off at the ice cream store one afternoon quite a while ago, and had dinner at Le Bistro one evening (it was after dark).

So, when I was en route to Pendleton today I was a little surprised by the rusted out mobile homes, etc.

I still very much like the idea of a place like Fallbrook, the small town feel, the gorgeous views, etc. and intend to spend more time looking around, exploring, and getting to know the area.

Thanks!

[Bunny Meadows]

Yikes. Allan, I hope I didnt sound like a snob. My experience with FB has been pretty limited. Stopped off at the ice cream store one afternoon quite a while ago, and had dinner at Le Bistro one evening (it was after dark).

So, when I was en route to Pendleton today I was a little surprised by the rusted out mobile homes, etc.

I still very much like the idea of a place like Fallbrook, the small town feel, the gorgeous views, etc. and intend to spend more time looking around, exploring, and getting to know the area.

Thanks!

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