Size of Avg. US home over time

[bearishgurl]

[quote=AN]BG, have you every been to the downtown of the major east coast/mid west cities (like NYC, Chicago, etc)? I’m in Chicago now and I don’t think SD downtown can even come close to be comparable. There are so many parks here, you don’t have to go very far to be at a park. Millennium Park has free concerts and other activities. There are trees everywhere, there are grassy medians, there are subways, there are very interesting architectures (combination of old and new architectures), etc. It just feel much more well put together.[/quote]

Oh, have fun there AN! At least it’s not frigid and windy this time of year 🙂

Yes, in the cont’l US, I’ve been to Wash. DC, Baltimore, All Florida cities (both sides), New Orleans, Shreveport, Biloxi-Gulfport, Mobile, Little Rock, Ft. Smith, State of TX (all), State of OK (all), State of KS (all), State of CO (all), State of NM (all), State of AZ (all), State of NV (all), State of Utah (all), Cheyenne, Lincoln, (NE), State of VA (2 counties) and State of CA (all). BY “all,” I mean I have traveled every major road in the state (and some minor). This doesn’t count cities I transferred in but did not leave the airport.

Yes, I’ve ridden the subway in Wash DC and the BART train in the SF Bay area (partial subway). Many cities are heavily treed but SoCal is an “irrigated desert.” That’s why you’re not used to seeing them. MD and CO also have very interesting architecture, new and old blended in. CO is older than SoCal and MD is much older than CO. Denver is especially noteworthy for its blended old and new architecture – very charming, and elegant . . . just awesome neighborhoods.

I’m sure you’re right, AN. SD is no Chicago and never will be. But if you have ever been there in the winter, you will KNOW the difference. And their snow and ice-covered “architecture” will be the least of your worries then :=}

[sdrealtor]

AN
Head to Kingston Mines if you get a chance. Its quite possibly the best place to hear real Blues music in the world.

BG
Was NYC an accidential ommission or have you never been to “The City”? It as close to a Capital City for the entire World as possible.

[sdrealtor]

AN
Head to Kingston Mines if you get a chance. Its quite possibly the best place to hear real Blues music in the world.

BG
Was NYC an accidential ommission or have you never been to “The City”? It as close to a Capital City for the entire World as possible.

[sdrealtor]

AN
Head to Kingston Mines if you get a chance. Its quite possibly the best place to hear real Blues music in the world.

BG
Was NYC an accidential ommission or have you never been to “The City”? It as close to a Capital City for the entire World as possible.

[sdrealtor]

AN
Head to Kingston Mines if you get a chance. Its quite possibly the best place to hear real Blues music in the world.

BG
Was NYC an accidential ommission or have you never been to “The City”? It as close to a Capital City for the entire World as possible.

[sdrealtor]

AN
Head to Kingston Mines if you get a chance. Its quite possibly the best place to hear real Blues music in the world.

BG
Was NYC an accidential ommission or have you never been to “The City”? It as close to a Capital City for the entire World as possible.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=sdrealtor]Downtown Sd has better construction? nearly every building there has massive defect litigation underway.

Carlsbad aka “Gridlocked Nirvana”? I can drive in any direction hitting little traffic. Getting around the urban core I have to stop nearly every 100 yds. I can park in my driveway or garage (if I ever got rid of the crap I have in there) and an unlimited number of my friends can park in the street outfront. Downtown I would have 1 or 2 under ground parking spots a long walk from my condo. My friends would have to pay $10 to $20 to park outside or run out every 2 hours to feed a meter.

Yes we have lower income residents. But they dont stand on the street corners urinating in doorways and harassing people walking down the street.

I do agree on different strokes for different folks and I see the value of downtown/urban living. To the contrary, it took you this long to get to different strokes for different folks having started at why would anyone live in Carlsbad or any of the newer communities in NC. Its easily as convenient to live up her and far more relaxed. Now you understand why.[/quote]

sdr, your post here speaks only of the hardships of living in NEWER DTN CONDOS in 92101 but not of any of the other urban areas I described, where you CAN park on the street outside a house or share a driveway with someone you are visiting. I do this all the time.

I wasn’t even thinking of condos in my “urban-living diatribe” and don’t think condos are even a good investment. I was just referring to SFR’s but I guess I didn’t make that clear. I have a meter card and two parking-garage remotes but I understand your frustration in this regard. Once you leave dtn. SD, you don’t have to “stop every 100 yards.” I lived on Bankers Hill for about 3 years when SD was a relaxed “ghost town” on the weekends but that was over 35 years ago . . . lol.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=sdrealtor]Downtown Sd has better construction? nearly every building there has massive defect litigation underway.

Carlsbad aka “Gridlocked Nirvana”? I can drive in any direction hitting little traffic. Getting around the urban core I have to stop nearly every 100 yds. I can park in my driveway or garage (if I ever got rid of the crap I have in there) and an unlimited number of my friends can park in the street outfront. Downtown I would have 1 or 2 under ground parking spots a long walk from my condo. My friends would have to pay $10 to $20 to park outside or run out every 2 hours to feed a meter.

Yes we have lower income residents. But they dont stand on the street corners urinating in doorways and harassing people walking down the street.

I do agree on different strokes for different folks and I see the value of downtown/urban living. To the contrary, it took you this long to get to different strokes for different folks having started at why would anyone live in Carlsbad or any of the newer communities in NC. Its easily as convenient to live up her and far more relaxed. Now you understand why.[/quote]

sdr, your post here speaks only of the hardships of living in NEWER DTN CONDOS in 92101 but not of any of the other urban areas I described, where you CAN park on the street outside a house or share a driveway with someone you are visiting. I do this all the time.

I wasn’t even thinking of condos in my “urban-living diatribe” and don’t think condos are even a good investment. I was just referring to SFR’s but I guess I didn’t make that clear. I have a meter card and two parking-garage remotes but I understand your frustration in this regard. Once you leave dtn. SD, you don’t have to “stop every 100 yards.” I lived on Bankers Hill for about 3 years when SD was a relaxed “ghost town” on the weekends but that was over 35 years ago . . . lol.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=sdrealtor]Downtown Sd has better construction? nearly every building there has massive defect litigation underway.

Carlsbad aka “Gridlocked Nirvana”? I can drive in any direction hitting little traffic. Getting around the urban core I have to stop nearly every 100 yds. I can park in my driveway or garage (if I ever got rid of the crap I have in there) and an unlimited number of my friends can park in the street outfront. Downtown I would have 1 or 2 under ground parking spots a long walk from my condo. My friends would have to pay $10 to $20 to park outside or run out every 2 hours to feed a meter.

Yes we have lower income residents. But they dont stand on the street corners urinating in doorways and harassing people walking down the street.

I do agree on different strokes for different folks and I see the value of downtown/urban living. To the contrary, it took you this long to get to different strokes for different folks having started at why would anyone live in Carlsbad or any of the newer communities in NC. Its easily as convenient to live up her and far more relaxed. Now you understand why.[/quote]

sdr, your post here speaks only of the hardships of living in NEWER DTN CONDOS in 92101 but not of any of the other urban areas I described, where you CAN park on the street outside a house or share a driveway with someone you are visiting. I do this all the time.

I wasn’t even thinking of condos in my “urban-living diatribe” and don’t think condos are even a good investment. I was just referring to SFR’s but I guess I didn’t make that clear. I have a meter card and two parking-garage remotes but I understand your frustration in this regard. Once you leave dtn. SD, you don’t have to “stop every 100 yards.” I lived on Bankers Hill for about 3 years when SD was a relaxed “ghost town” on the weekends but that was over 35 years ago . . . lol.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=sdrealtor]Downtown Sd has better construction? nearly every building there has massive defect litigation underway.

Carlsbad aka “Gridlocked Nirvana”? I can drive in any direction hitting little traffic. Getting around the urban core I have to stop nearly every 100 yds. I can park in my driveway or garage (if I ever got rid of the crap I have in there) and an unlimited number of my friends can park in the street outfront. Downtown I would have 1 or 2 under ground parking spots a long walk from my condo. My friends would have to pay $10 to $20 to park outside or run out every 2 hours to feed a meter.

Yes we have lower income residents. But they dont stand on the street corners urinating in doorways and harassing people walking down the street.

I do agree on different strokes for different folks and I see the value of downtown/urban living. To the contrary, it took you this long to get to different strokes for different folks having started at why would anyone live in Carlsbad or any of the newer communities in NC. Its easily as convenient to live up her and far more relaxed. Now you understand why.[/quote]

sdr, your post here speaks only of the hardships of living in NEWER DTN CONDOS in 92101 but not of any of the other urban areas I described, where you CAN park on the street outside a house or share a driveway with someone you are visiting. I do this all the time.

I wasn’t even thinking of condos in my “urban-living diatribe” and don’t think condos are even a good investment. I was just referring to SFR’s but I guess I didn’t make that clear. I have a meter card and two parking-garage remotes but I understand your frustration in this regard. Once you leave dtn. SD, you don’t have to “stop every 100 yards.” I lived on Bankers Hill for about 3 years when SD was a relaxed “ghost town” on the weekends but that was over 35 years ago . . . lol.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=sdrealtor]Downtown Sd has better construction? nearly every building there has massive defect litigation underway.

Carlsbad aka “Gridlocked Nirvana”? I can drive in any direction hitting little traffic. Getting around the urban core I have to stop nearly every 100 yds. I can park in my driveway or garage (if I ever got rid of the crap I have in there) and an unlimited number of my friends can park in the street outfront. Downtown I would have 1 or 2 under ground parking spots a long walk from my condo. My friends would have to pay $10 to $20 to park outside or run out every 2 hours to feed a meter.

Yes we have lower income residents. But they dont stand on the street corners urinating in doorways and harassing people walking down the street.

I do agree on different strokes for different folks and I see the value of downtown/urban living. To the contrary, it took you this long to get to different strokes for different folks having started at why would anyone live in Carlsbad or any of the newer communities in NC. Its easily as convenient to live up her and far more relaxed. Now you understand why.[/quote]

sdr, your post here speaks only of the hardships of living in NEWER DTN CONDOS in 92101 but not of any of the other urban areas I described, where you CAN park on the street outside a house or share a driveway with someone you are visiting. I do this all the time.

I wasn’t even thinking of condos in my “urban-living diatribe” and don’t think condos are even a good investment. I was just referring to SFR’s but I guess I didn’t make that clear. I have a meter card and two parking-garage remotes but I understand your frustration in this regard. Once you leave dtn. SD, you don’t have to “stop every 100 yards.” I lived on Bankers Hill for about 3 years when SD was a relaxed “ghost town” on the weekends but that was over 35 years ago . . . lol.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=sdrealtor]AN
Head to Kingston Mines if you get a chance. Its quite possibly the best place to hear real Blues music in the world.

BG
Was NYC an accidential ommission or have you never been to “The City”? It as close to a Capital City for the entire World as possible.[/quote]

No, I have never been north of Baltimore (where I have relatives). All my kids have been to NY and Philadelphia including all the sights (Times Square, Greenwich Village, Statue of Liberty, etc.) They went on trips sponsored by those “substandard other-worldly” schools in the SUHSD District :=]

[bearishgurl]

[quote=sdrealtor]AN
Head to Kingston Mines if you get a chance. Its quite possibly the best place to hear real Blues music in the world.

BG
Was NYC an accidential ommission or have you never been to “The City”? It as close to a Capital City for the entire World as possible.[/quote]

No, I have never been north of Baltimore (where I have relatives). All my kids have been to NY and Philadelphia including all the sights (Times Square, Greenwich Village, Statue of Liberty, etc.) They went on trips sponsored by those “substandard other-worldly” schools in the SUHSD District :=]

[bearishgurl]

[quote=sdrealtor]AN
Head to Kingston Mines if you get a chance. Its quite possibly the best place to hear real Blues music in the world.

BG
Was NYC an accidential ommission or have you never been to “The City”? It as close to a Capital City for the entire World as possible.[/quote]

No, I have never been north of Baltimore (where I have relatives). All my kids have been to NY and Philadelphia including all the sights (Times Square, Greenwich Village, Statue of Liberty, etc.) They went on trips sponsored by those “substandard other-worldly” schools in the SUHSD District :=]

[bearishgurl]

[quote=sdrealtor]AN
Head to Kingston Mines if you get a chance. Its quite possibly the best place to hear real Blues music in the world.

BG
Was NYC an accidential ommission or have you never been to “The City”? It as close to a Capital City for the entire World as possible.[/quote]

No, I have never been north of Baltimore (where I have relatives). All my kids have been to NY and Philadelphia including all the sights (Times Square, Greenwich Village, Statue of Liberty, etc.) They went on trips sponsored by those “substandard other-worldly” schools in the SUHSD District :=]

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