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December 7, 2015 at 10:03 AM #792183December 7, 2015 at 10:38 AM #792184
FlyerInHi
GuestYou guys are raising super kids. I’m having anxiety just reading. I don’t think I could ever compete.
Did anyone consider a very tough boarding academy? How about an elite high school in Switzerland? Start saving as soon as the child is born.
December 7, 2015 at 10:43 AM #792186bewildering
ParticipantIn case you are still interested. The suggestion of University City (west of regents, south of rose canyon), seems to make perfect sense. The commute to REI will be a breeze, the locals schools are good, the price can be sub 1M, the lots are big, and the community is pretty nice (plenty of parks etc.).
You might even venture south of the 52, there are nice parts of Bay Ho, Northwest Clairemont, and Bay park. Great location, and the houses are even cheaper in these areas. You can just send your kids to one of the Montesorri schools nearby with the saved money.
I like CV, lots of friends of mine live there, but it was pricey for me as a FTB and I wouldn’t fancy the commute. I did not consider MM as the traffic seemed a little tough and I think they are building a load more stuff to make the traffic worse.
December 7, 2015 at 10:57 AM #792190an
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]You guys are raising super kids. I’m having anxiety just reading. I don’t think I could ever compete.
Did anyone consider a very tough boarding academy? How about an elite high school in Switzerland? Start saving as soon as the child is born.[/quote]
No, I never consider boarding school. I want my kid to have a good education but I also want them to be exposed to a diverse group of people. I don’t want to coddle them. However, I wanted them to build up a love for learning. Which is why I put them in Montessori the first couple of years to build up their fundamentals, but then let them lose in public school so that they’re exposed to a much more diverse group of kids.I personally think it all comes down 1) having them love learning, 2) give them goals and expectation, so that they’re constantly pushed 3) pure genetic (IQ). #3 is the most important in term of where their ceiling is. Just in case they have a low ceiling, I don’t want them to feel like they’re failures. As long as they perform at their best potential, that’s all that I care about.
December 7, 2015 at 11:08 AM #792192Participant[quote=bewildering]I did not consider MM as the traffic seemed a little tough and I think they are building a load more stuff to make the traffic worse.[/quote]Traffic isn’t bad. If anything, it’s better than most areas, since most people coming into MM to work, so you’ll be going against traffic.
As for all the new development going into MM, I fully welcome it. I’m looking forward to more retail due to increase in density. Not to mention all the office building they’re adding in MM and UTC. I never have to go more than 20 minutes to get to work and I’ve worked from 5/52 area all the way to North RB to Scripps Ranch. I’ve always going against traffic.
I never suggested MM to the OP, because I know the stigma MM have and most people who are looking for a $1-1.5M wouldn’t consider living in MM and send their kids to private school.
December 7, 2015 at 11:21 AM #792195
CoronitaParticipant[quote=FlyerInHi]You guys are raising super kids. I’m having anxiety just reading. I don’t think I could ever compete.
Did anyone consider a very tough boarding academy? How about an elite high school in Switzerland? Start saving as soon as the child is born.[/quote]
No way man. I just want my kid to turn out slightly above average at worst. No way I would send my kid away. Kids got to be kids too. What’s the point of having kids if you don’t plan on spending much time with them?
December 7, 2015 at 12:24 PM #792214scaredyclassic
ParticipantMainly what they learned was from my wife, and some from me.
Maybe.
Great documentary I saw this weekend FOLLOWING SEAN , netflix, about a kid raised on Haight Ashbury in the 60s… and the follow up where he is today. Just riveting…might make you rethink parental effects on kids.
December 7, 2015 at 12:42 PM #792215njtosd
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]You guys are raising super kids. I’m having anxiety just reading. I don’t think I could ever compete.
Did anyone consider a very tough boarding academy? How about an elite high school in Switzerland? Start saving as soon as the child is born.[/quote]
Before we had kids my husband used to joke about waving to the kids as they went from boarding school to summer camp. Our oldest is approaching college and guess which one of them is having the most difficulty with that? Babies change everything. A switch goes off in your head and it never goes back. This was a very interesting study: http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/04/love-hormone-turns-mothers-moms
The most striking conclusion: “We hypothesise that changes in gene expression, as well as excitatory and inhibitory synapses lock in these changes for the lifetime of the animal,” he adds. The changes that this refer to are maternal behaviors that were permanently induced through oxytocin injections given to mice who had never had pups. Similar changes (though milder) are seen in humans, both male and female.
Which is a long way of saying, few people with kids think about boarding school
December 7, 2015 at 12:54 PM #792216bearishgurl
Participant[quote=njtosd]. . . Our oldest is approaching college and guess which one of them is having the most difficulty with that? . . . [/quote]
If you don’t mind sharing, nj, which colleges did your kid apply to?
December 7, 2015 at 7:43 PM #792260Participant[quote=bearishgurl][quote=njtosd]. . . Our oldest is approaching college and guess which one of them is having the most difficulty with that? . . . [/quote]
If you don’t mind sharing, nj, which colleges did your kid apply to?[/quote]
He’s actually a junior but spent a month at UCSD last summer in the COSMOS program. So it was a little taste of the future. He’s interested in a few UC schools and talks about the Naval Academy occasionally (not sure he’d get in – he’s not really the military type). I want him to apply to The University of Michigan (my alma mater).
December 7, 2015 at 10:15 PM #792270Myriad
Participant[quote=bearishgurl][quote=yuhtey][quote=joec]In today’s UT:
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/dec/06/tp-home-sellers-look-east-carlsbad-website-taps/
I couldn’t find any CFD’s in LA County … anywhere.It has a far more diversified job base and is much better-planned than SD County is. That $599K avg price for new construction represents an attached condo price in 2015.[/quote]
Considering most of LA was built up before the late 80’s, why would there be CFDs?
Oh? I’m curious what way you find LA County better planned than SD County? Certainly can’t be the traffic or the limited public transit east of DTLA.December 8, 2015 at 2:06 PM #792329Participant[quote=Myriad][quote=bearishgurl][quote=joec]In today’s UT:
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/dec/06/tp-home-sellers-look-east-carlsbad-website-taps/
[/quote]I couldn’t find any CFD’s in LA County … anywhere.It has a far more diversified job base and is much better-planned than SD County is. That $599K avg price for new construction represents an attached condo price in 2015.[/quote]
Considering most of LA was built up before the late 80’s, why would there be CFDs?
Oh? I’m curious what way you find LA County better planned than SD County? Certainly can’t be the traffic or the limited public transit east of DTLA.[/quote]Myriad, the massive SGV portion of (Eastern) LA County, where I was looking at RE extensively last year, appears to have been completely built out in ’85 or ’86, depending on city, town to census tract designation (many cities/towns were built out much earlier than that). All their open space has been left intact, and, much like the Silicon Valley, it is extensive …. comprising almost half the land in this region of over 2M people. The County has erected flood control devices on a lot of it, to prevent avulsion. With the San Gabriels in the close or distant background (depending on location) it is spectacular despite the high temperatures there 8-9 months per year. The average SFR lot size there is ~7500 sf compared to SD’s 5000 sf.
Of course, some of the westside cities are much denser, especially the small coastal cities and towns. There hasn’t been any subdivision land with which to build on in more than 35 years in most of the westside of LA County, again, because all their open space was (properly) preserved by previous Boards of Supervisors and city councils.
It is all as it should be.
OTOH, over the past ~25 years, especially, San Diego County and its cities have essentially allowed Big Development to cut off the tops of any hill or mountain which they considered “buildable” (or even barely buildable with extensive rock excavation). In almost every case, the developer and respective city/county partnered to form a “CFD” for the purposes of funding buildings for physical municipal or county services for future inhabitants of that new development. This money WAS used to build the physical buildings used for public service for these outlying areas but did not provide for the extra public personnel’s salaries, benefits and pensions to service those areas. In most cases, city and county staffs have not grown appreciably in the last 15+ years and some cities had to lay off hundreds of workers in 2008-09 (when too many parcels in their jurisdiction were delinquent on their property taxes) and haven’t hired them back to this date.
Hence, we see the bankrupt cities of San Bernardino and Stockton who allowed rampant building as San Diego County cities did but didn’t have the job base and tax base (their parcels had a much lower value) as SD County cities did to support paying for the public services needed by the new population influx of tens of thousands.
All this unchecked rampant growth has affected the quality of life of longtime existing residents adversely by way of perpetually clogged freeways, long lines at public facilities (ex: post offices) and long waits for city services such as tree-trimming, street maintenance and street sweeping, etc.
It isn’t that crowded out in the SGV. Yes, the freeways are congested out there in large part because they have the truck traffic that SD does not and will never have. There are multiple regional and municipal bus lines in the SGV which coordinate with one another and the Metrolink has built several new train stations of late, the newest being within the “City of Industry” (a comm’l subdivision of Walnut, CA):
http://www.metrolinktrains.com/stations/detail/station_id/99.html
The Metrolink connects with Amtrak at Union station in LA and also to regional airports and transportation to LAX. It is an excellent and economical way to traverse most of LA County’s sub-regions. From what I can tell, public transportation is very good around there.
LA County was better planned because the vast majority of it was (very wisely) legally preserved PRIOR to the passing of the Mello Roos Community Facilities Act:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mello-Roos
Hence the residential properties there are worth more money (on an apples-to-apples comparison) then those in SD County. You pay for what you get in this life. I believe the quality of life there is probably better than that of SD if one doesn’t have to commute on a freeway to work.
I feel it is unfair to blame “locals” for clogging SF Bay area and OC/Ventura/LA County roads (as well as roads within the IE). The roads in these counties are heavily used by travelers, both in and out of state to/from their homes in another county/state as well as by thousands of long-haul commercial drivers daily. SD doesn’t have anywhere near as much “traveler traffic” daily because it is located at the bottom of the state and country … that is unless those travelers entering SD County from elsewhere are headed into MX. SD has much less truck traffic than those other jurisdictions as well, for the same reason. The major coast-to-coast trucking companies offload at Vernon (LA County) and bring a smaller rig into SD to stock our stores, UPS, Fed-Ex, etc, here. SD County (along with several other CA jurisdictions) does not permit the entrance of triple tractor-trailers.
We in SD County have LA County to thank for providing the roads and space to do our “dirty work” for us so we can have timely pkg delivery, mdse in our stores and cleaner air to breathe 🙂
December 9, 2015 at 11:12 PM #792412yuhtey
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Submitted by paramount on August 2, 2010 – 3:59pm.
I moved to Temecula almost a decade ago, and it was the biggest financial mistake I have ever made in my life.
I know for some it’s more than a financial decision, so it’s just one perspective.
I have been destroyed financially (IMO) because I bought a house in Temecula. I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t believe I will ever fully recover from this mistake that I made.
So I guess my answer would generally (there could be some exceptions) be: NO DO NOT BUY A HOUSE IN TEMECULA.
I can’t wait to move out of Temecula if I ever can.December 10, 2015 at 6:44 AM #792415The-Shoveler
ParticipantWith just a few exception areas anyone who bought in SoCal in 2005 would probably say the same thing.
Homes that sold in Oxnard at 800K in 2005 are still only fetching 5-600K currently.
That is just one example.
There are many other areas in SoCal that are still under water, there maybe Micro Bubbles here and there but by and large there is not.
December 10, 2015 at 6:46 AM #792416Participantalright, i have another mini-rant for you all: leucadia.
wtf. if i wanted to go to portlandia, i’d move to oregon. attention all shoppers: big box stores are not the devil – and i’d bet all the white people with hipster tats in the loo just go order from amazon or the apple store anyway (or are they sooooo hip that they don’t even have phones?) yes, they whittle wooden everything and recycle their feces for composting or whatever the global warming cult leaders tell them to do.
it’s not enough to be a good parent in leucadia, you also have to be “cool” LOL. do these people have unlimited time to put in an honest days work, do some man-grooming on those beards, change diapers, re-ink the tats, heckle motorists who dare drive on a street where pedestrians are consistently jaywalking, and shop around for some organic vegan gluten-free lettuce water?
rating: 7/10 if you didn’t have an ocean on one side, you’d be a 3rd branch of the san diego zoo. look jimmy, there goes a hipsterius dooforius. out in the water, over yonder – they’re log jamming the break. now no one can enjoy having a surf.
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