Best Family Areas for Low-$1Millions Budget

[scaredyclassic]

Could be related to Mrs yahootie?

“According to artist R. Crumb in ZAP COMIX #0, the ’60s really began in a dime store in Jersey City in 1959 when, during a fight with Mrs. Knish, Mrs. Yahootie got hit with a meatball from out of nowhere right after a voice suddenly heralded its impending arrival The event changed Mrs.Yahootie’s life. But it wasn’t until a machinist for Dempster Dumpmaster was awakened by a meatball from a nightmare about the H-bomb that the metaphor took off. All across the country, “getting hit with a meatball” became synonymous with consciousness-raising.”

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=yuhtey][quote=Hobie]I think this thread is done and I encourage our new member to take his business elsewhere. Can we lock this thread?[/quote]

this thread is done? whaaaaaaa? piggingtons is a business?[/quote]

Wait. We haven’t figured out yuhtey means.

Maybe.” Why you hate??? why!!!? ” ( y u h(a)te y ?)

[joec]

Thanks for providing one of the more interesting threads about real estate for a long time…everyone here bought around 20008-2011 that it’s been a ghost town with actual real estate topics.

If your wife is asian, good luck trying to live somewhere else. Her “face” won’t allow her to live in south or east county and you’d be fighting a losing battle I think as mentioned trying to force where to live (as a guy)…

You’re lucky you’re not in the bay area with the small amount of funds you have to buy. Maybe your wife’s parent’s can help “chip” in, but the downside of that is they will and can stop by anytime now to see the grandkids.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=joec] … If your wife is asian, good luck trying to live somewhere else. Her “face” won’t allow her to live in south or east county and you’d be fighting a losing battle I think as mentioned trying to force where to live (as a guy)…[/quote]

What exactly do you mean by this, joec? There are many thousands (80K to 100K?) of Asians residing in South County. And several thousand residing in East County … including about 3-5K Guamanians.

[Coronita]

[quote=bearishgurl][quote=yuhtey][quote=flu]

Lol. She recommends buying in chula vista.

[/quote]

yes, and she’s being very culturally insensitive about it, too.[/quote]

Uhh, yuhtey? (You too, flu.) Where exactly on this thread have I recommended to you to buy your first home in Chula Vista?

I actually feel Chula Vista is not for you, primarily due to its “blueness.” We have plenty of custom homes, large lots and wealth down here … we just don’t flaunt it (much akin to the attitude of longtime La Jollans). So, that’s not the problem. The problem here is that your kind would not fit in in these parts, mostly due to your overt intolerant attitude and besides, I feel you would be miserable.

I now feel that you would do best in a relatively plain vanilla walled-in brick enclave of all brick mcmansions, all on one-acre lots surrounding a man-made lake smack dab in the middle of TX (length of commute be damned). The good news is that you can probably afford this! And who knows, you may be able to snag a new construction home to your liking!

Now, all you need to do is get yourself transferred over there stat and buy yourself a nice new $65K jacked-up 4×4 dualie doublecab one-ton-plus pick-em-up truck with shiny chrome Smittybuilt tubular siderails and hang whatever your little heart desires on the tow hitch to go house-hunting in. Don’t be bashful! Fill the back window and bumper with all your tea party and assorted right-wing bumper stickers! ‘Careful how you talk to the locals ’round there, though … even when doing something innocuous … like pumping gas! You might quickly find yourself in an unexpected shitstorm for saying the wrong thing to the wrong person at the wrong time. And I can assure you that there won’t be time for you to fix it.[/quote]

I don’t really know if you talked about chula vista on this thread because I am not really reading every post on this thread that is posted by anyone. I am merely regurgitating the virtues of chula vista that normally gets posted when a Carmel valley thread is started in the past about how overpriced it is, how many stucco boxes it has, tract homes, lizards, and homes with too many walls, oh and how it use to be a home for migrant workers I think you mentioned too.. It’s like preemptively predicting and posting what each poster is going to post even before they post about it. Kinda like the inside joke about Santee only being 10minutes from LJ and how it really should be called La Jolla adjunct.

And the best part of all this? The most vocal comments about said overpriced areas usually comes from LETDITA’s. For a refreshing course on what that means please refer to the Piggington Weekly Issue #2 (now cancelled)

[flyer]

Just a question out of curiosity, and not at all meant to be rude–but with all of the discussion on this thread about Asian households, priorities, saving “face,” etc., I was just wondering what happens in said households if, after all of the planning, sacrifice, etc., etc, the kids end up not measuring up to the familial expectations?

What happens if they can’t get into their chosen college, or land their chosen position, or, you name it–are they ostracized forever?

I think most of us have extremely high aspirations for ourselves and our children, but we also realize things don’t always go as planned, and I hope, for the kids sake, everyone realizes that.

[ocrenter]

[quote=flyer]Just a question out of curiosity, and not at all meant to be rude–but with all of the discussion on this thread about Asian households, priorities, saving “face,” etc., I was just wondering what happens in said households if, after all of the planning, sacrifice, etc., etc, the kids end up not measuring up to the familial expectations?

What happens if they can’t get into their chosen college, or land their chosen position, or, you name it–are they ostracized forever?

I think most of us have extremely high aspirations for ourselves and our children, but we also realize things don’t always go as planned, and I hope, for the kids sake, everyone realizes that.[/quote]

a lot are ostracized forever. the number of excommunicated 2nd generation Asian children are huge. all of this is brushed under the rug to save face.

[Coronita]

[quote=flyer]Just a question out of curiosity, and not at all meant to be rude–but with all of the discussion on this thread about Asian households, priorities, saving “face,” etc., I was just wondering what happens in said households if, after all of the planning, sacrifice, etc., etc, the kids end up not measuring up to the familial expectations?

What happens if they can’t get into their chosen college, or land their chosen position, or, you name it–are they ostracized forever?

I think most of us have extremely high aspirations for ourselves and our children, but we also realize things don’t always go as planned, and I hope, for the kids sake, everyone realizes that.[/quote]

Well that’s easy. You disown your kids… Just kidding.

I think we’re being sarcastic about this. You hope for the best but if things don’t go as planned oh well. In america, you can be a pretty big fvckup and still do pretty well.

Just look at me!

[Coronita]

[quote=ocrenter][quote=flyer]Just a question out of curiosity, and not at all meant to be rude–but with all of the discussion on this thread about Asian households, priorities, saving “face,” etc., I was just wondering what happens in said households if, after all of the planning, sacrifice, etc., etc, the kids end up not measuring up to the familial expectations?

What happens if they can’t get into their chosen college, or land their chosen position, or, you name it–are they ostracized forever?

I think most of us have extremely high aspirations for ourselves and our children, but we also realize things don’t always go as planned, and I hope, for the kids sake, everyone realizes that.[/quote]

a lot are ostracized forever. the number of excommunicated 2nd generation Asian children are huge. all of this is brushed under the rug to save face.[/quote]

Nah, failure simply is not allowed… Can’t do math… 100 hours of kumon… Got a 97% on the CAASP test. Not good enough, why not 99%…..Grounded for 1 week. Get a B+ in grade school. holy cow, there goes your kid’s chances of going to harvard medical.

Me? I’m going to change my kid’s last name….Much easier that way…

[Coronita]

So the reply wasn’t necessarily directed at BG above, but it just seems like there’s a common theme when someone brings up Carmel Valley…

A typical thread about Carmel Valley beings like

1. New buyer to be….. posts/complains about affordability of Carmel Valley

2. New buyer starts to rant about the crappiness of Carmel Valley

3. New buyer asks others for other comparable places to live

4. Someone always brings up the stucco box, overpriced, crap, snobbery aspects (I call this the sour grapes syndrome)

5. Then, usually Santee, El Cajon, Chula Vista cheerleaders jump in and say how much a better value homes in these areas are and what quality craftmanship homes built in these areas are. Citing that Carmel Valley homes have too many lizards, walls, and stucco on the houses.

6. Would be buyer says something like “are you fvvcking serious. I might think CarmelV is a douchery, but comparing it to Chula Vista or El Cajon, you’re nuts”. (which, is somewhat true)… Of course if someone that lives in Carmel Valley were to say this, that person would be considered a snob… But of course a person that is looking to buy in Carmel Valley says the same thing, that’s not being a snob.

7. Then there’s bitch and moan session about Carlsbad and Encinitas too far away, La Jolla is a much better place and should be priced where Carmel Valley is current priced, Rancho Bernardo/4S having way too high MR, some smacktalk about Stonebridge (which currently escapes my mind), and some aspect of Santa Luz being expensive and not really RSF. Oh, and anything along the 15 is one big fire hazard that will go up in flames any day now…

8. Then the would be carmel valley buyer goes away and doesn’t post again. The house that was shown on piggington that he/said was a rip off at a given price ends up closing 2-3 month later, if not at asking price, close to it, or even above it.

9. And we never here from the OP again for a long time…… Kinda like the past couple of other threads too…

[flyer]

I’m sure you’re joking, but with the previous discussion here, it does make one wonder.

In retrospect, I guess you could say I had a “Tiger Mother” before it was in vogue, and we raised our kids in pretty much the same way. Everyone turned out well, but we were prepared if that had not been the case.

[Coronita]

[quote=flyer]I’m sure you’re joking, but with the previous discussion here, it does make one wonder.

In retrospect, I guess you could say I had a “Tiger Mother” before it was in vogue, and we raised our kids in pretty much the same way. Everyone turned out well, but we were prepared if that had not been the case.[/quote]

A tiger mom/dad that puts that much emphasis on success..At worst, there kids turns out average to slightly above average unless he/she has some other issues going on. Better than kids that put no effort into their work. There are some cases that it backfires, and the kid flunks out of Harvard (no seriously). But there is a higher percentage of success. Also, starting with generation 2. Let’s face it. Generation 2 ends up having a better financial future than generation 1 who made all the sacrifices and ends up passing it down to generation 2. So there is part of a wealth transfer to kids to increase the odds of not failing. The new wealth from asia (business people) on the other hand probably aren’t very well educated, and made money by being in the right place at the right time in an emerging market. They take their money and send their kids to the best school their money can buy. So it will take about 3-4 generations before they end up as fvcked up as many other americans are.

[flyer]

For better or worse, getting into Harvard Med is actually more who you know more than anything else–so that evens the playing field with regard to other factors that might come into play. Acceptance rate when my daughter started was around 6%, it’s now 5.3.

[Coronita]

[quote=flyer]For better or worse, getting into Harvard Med is actually more who you know than anything else–so that evens the playing field with regard to other factors that might come into play. Acceptance rate when my daughter started was around 6%, it’s now 5.3.[/quote]

Well, I’m sure that explains why folks overseas are able to get into pretty good schools. If I had a few million to donate to any school, I’m sure my kid’s grade wouldn’t really matter either….

[yuhtey]

it’s a-sian, not b-sian.

we implement the kneeling on dry rice technique on our 16-month-old when he can’t get the animal puzzle pieces back in place in under 30 seconds. discipline!

i will clarify that the assumption about my wife is wrong. she is from orange county and they all think san diego is for losers. i have a hard time disagreeing with her most of the time. although – stories from the irvine battlefield are not pretty these days. apparently the fobby chinese and indians are driving everyone south to mission viejo. ouch.

we are in agreement about the locations here. CV no doubt has some of the highest end homes in the county, but the real draw is the school system and the low tax/hoa proposition. we could “take it our leave it” but are watching closely because every once in a while a really great place comes up in our price range. as you can imagine, we are getting good at spotting turds online without needing the viewing. “oh, is that an old-timey grandfather clock next to her majesty’s dining set? oooh, look at that pointless square-tiled granite countertop…REJECT”

they are not terribly overpriced, but one would think 100k to 200k off of sticker would allow for some updating. we are the type of buyers who don’t lowball.

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