what do you think of Imperial Beach?

[Aecetia]

Here is some additional information about IB:

http://www.city-data.com/zips/91932.html

[temeculaguy]

To each his own, but IB has very little going for it. It is close to military bases but ask a serviceman if he wants to have his family in I.B. while he is gone. Lots of dive bars, extremenly low income, bad schools, shares air with T.J., the only town they can pick on is San Ysidro, I’m sorry what was the question again. It even lacks chain gorcery or retail stores, I figure if a Ralph’s or a Target won’t go there, my demographic work has been done for me already. I do have a friend that owns a rental there but he owns it outright, bought it decades ago and won’t go there without a gun and in daylight, that’s enough for me.

[temeculaguy]

To each his own, but IB has very little going for it. It is close to military bases but ask a serviceman if he wants to have his family in I.B. while he is gone. Lots of dive bars, extremenly low income, bad schools, shares air with T.J., the only town they can pick on is San Ysidro, I’m sorry what was the question again. It even lacks chain gorcery or retail stores, I figure if a Ralph’s or a Target won’t go there, my demographic work has been done for me already. I do have a friend that owns a rental there but he owns it outright, bought it decades ago and won’t go there without a gun and in daylight, that’s enough for me.

[temeculaguy]

To each his own, but IB has very little going for it. It is close to military bases but ask a serviceman if he wants to have his family in I.B. while he is gone. Lots of dive bars, extremenly low income, bad schools, shares air with T.J., the only town they can pick on is San Ysidro, I’m sorry what was the question again. It even lacks chain gorcery or retail stores, I figure if a Ralph’s or a Target won’t go there, my demographic work has been done for me already. I do have a friend that owns a rental there but he owns it outright, bought it decades ago and won’t go there without a gun and in daylight, that’s enough for me.

[temeculaguy]

To each his own, but IB has very little going for it. It is close to military bases but ask a serviceman if he wants to have his family in I.B. while he is gone. Lots of dive bars, extremenly low income, bad schools, shares air with T.J., the only town they can pick on is San Ysidro, I’m sorry what was the question again. It even lacks chain gorcery or retail stores, I figure if a Ralph’s or a Target won’t go there, my demographic work has been done for me already. I do have a friend that owns a rental there but he owns it outright, bought it decades ago and won’t go there without a gun and in daylight, that’s enough for me.

[temeculaguy]

To each his own, but IB has very little going for it. It is close to military bases but ask a serviceman if he wants to have his family in I.B. while he is gone. Lots of dive bars, extremenly low income, bad schools, shares air with T.J., the only town they can pick on is San Ysidro, I’m sorry what was the question again. It even lacks chain gorcery or retail stores, I figure if a Ralph’s or a Target won’t go there, my demographic work has been done for me already. I do have a friend that owns a rental there but he owns it outright, bought it decades ago and won’t go there without a gun and in daylight, that’s enough for me.

[PD]

It was beginning to show the first signs of gentrification at the end of the bubble but it seems to have slid backwards again. There were plans to tear down a strip mall on Palm and replace it with a new one that (I think) included a Trader Joes. I’m not sure if that is still on the table but I doubt it.

The schools are really bad. I know two families who moved to IB in the last two years. Both stayed less than a year before moving out again.

I think that IB will probably gentrify at some point. It is the cheapest beach community for 300 miles. If young professional couples “discovered” it or it began to attract vacation home buyers, it would start the ball rolling. There are a number of warts that need to be frozen off first, though. There are lots of crappy apartments mixed in with single family (terrible, terrible city planning). If these converted in large numbers to condos, that would be a great thing for the city.

[PD]

It was beginning to show the first signs of gentrification at the end of the bubble but it seems to have slid backwards again. There were plans to tear down a strip mall on Palm and replace it with a new one that (I think) included a Trader Joes. I’m not sure if that is still on the table but I doubt it.

The schools are really bad. I know two families who moved to IB in the last two years. Both stayed less than a year before moving out again.

I think that IB will probably gentrify at some point. It is the cheapest beach community for 300 miles. If young professional couples “discovered” it or it began to attract vacation home buyers, it would start the ball rolling. There are a number of warts that need to be frozen off first, though. There are lots of crappy apartments mixed in with single family (terrible, terrible city planning). If these converted in large numbers to condos, that would be a great thing for the city.

[PD]

It was beginning to show the first signs of gentrification at the end of the bubble but it seems to have slid backwards again. There were plans to tear down a strip mall on Palm and replace it with a new one that (I think) included a Trader Joes. I’m not sure if that is still on the table but I doubt it.

The schools are really bad. I know two families who moved to IB in the last two years. Both stayed less than a year before moving out again.

I think that IB will probably gentrify at some point. It is the cheapest beach community for 300 miles. If young professional couples “discovered” it or it began to attract vacation home buyers, it would start the ball rolling. There are a number of warts that need to be frozen off first, though. There are lots of crappy apartments mixed in with single family (terrible, terrible city planning). If these converted in large numbers to condos, that would be a great thing for the city.

[PD]

It was beginning to show the first signs of gentrification at the end of the bubble but it seems to have slid backwards again. There were plans to tear down a strip mall on Palm and replace it with a new one that (I think) included a Trader Joes. I’m not sure if that is still on the table but I doubt it.

The schools are really bad. I know two families who moved to IB in the last two years. Both stayed less than a year before moving out again.

I think that IB will probably gentrify at some point. It is the cheapest beach community for 300 miles. If young professional couples “discovered” it or it began to attract vacation home buyers, it would start the ball rolling. There are a number of warts that need to be frozen off first, though. There are lots of crappy apartments mixed in with single family (terrible, terrible city planning). If these converted in large numbers to condos, that would be a great thing for the city.

[PD]

It was beginning to show the first signs of gentrification at the end of the bubble but it seems to have slid backwards again. There were plans to tear down a strip mall on Palm and replace it with a new one that (I think) included a Trader Joes. I’m not sure if that is still on the table but I doubt it.

The schools are really bad. I know two families who moved to IB in the last two years. Both stayed less than a year before moving out again.

I think that IB will probably gentrify at some point. It is the cheapest beach community for 300 miles. If young professional couples “discovered” it or it began to attract vacation home buyers, it would start the ball rolling. There are a number of warts that need to be frozen off first, though. There are lots of crappy apartments mixed in with single family (terrible, terrible city planning). If these converted in large numbers to condos, that would be a great thing for the city.

[cantab]

Thanks for the opinions! Just to be a devil’s advocate, the descriptions could apply to Pacific Beach also, a couple of decades ago:

“plans to tear down a strip mall on Palm and replace it with a new one that (I think) included a Trader Joes”

“The schools are really bad”. Here are the state test scores (2007 base API):
IB elementary 782
Crown Point Elem. 777
Pacific Beach Elem. 836

“There are lots of crappy apartments mixed in with single family” True for Pacific Beach also.

PB has a lot of SDSU students who drive up rents and keep the area trendy; they don’t just bring problems. Google Maps says that downtown IB to the Hotel Del Coronado is 13 minutes, and 25 minutes to SDSU. SDSU to Crystal Pier in PB is 21 minutes. So college students should be interested in IB.

Of course an area can fail to gentrify for many more decades…

[cantab]

Thanks for the opinions! Just to be a devil’s advocate, the descriptions could apply to Pacific Beach also, a couple of decades ago:

“plans to tear down a strip mall on Palm and replace it with a new one that (I think) included a Trader Joes”

“The schools are really bad”. Here are the state test scores (2007 base API):
IB elementary 782
Crown Point Elem. 777
Pacific Beach Elem. 836

“There are lots of crappy apartments mixed in with single family” True for Pacific Beach also.

PB has a lot of SDSU students who drive up rents and keep the area trendy; they don’t just bring problems. Google Maps says that downtown IB to the Hotel Del Coronado is 13 minutes, and 25 minutes to SDSU. SDSU to Crystal Pier in PB is 21 minutes. So college students should be interested in IB.

Of course an area can fail to gentrify for many more decades…

[cantab]

Thanks for the opinions! Just to be a devil’s advocate, the descriptions could apply to Pacific Beach also, a couple of decades ago:

“plans to tear down a strip mall on Palm and replace it with a new one that (I think) included a Trader Joes”

“The schools are really bad”. Here are the state test scores (2007 base API):
IB elementary 782
Crown Point Elem. 777
Pacific Beach Elem. 836

“There are lots of crappy apartments mixed in with single family” True for Pacific Beach also.

PB has a lot of SDSU students who drive up rents and keep the area trendy; they don’t just bring problems. Google Maps says that downtown IB to the Hotel Del Coronado is 13 minutes, and 25 minutes to SDSU. SDSU to Crystal Pier in PB is 21 minutes. So college students should be interested in IB.

Of course an area can fail to gentrify for many more decades…

[cantab]

Thanks for the opinions! Just to be a devil’s advocate, the descriptions could apply to Pacific Beach also, a couple of decades ago:

“plans to tear down a strip mall on Palm and replace it with a new one that (I think) included a Trader Joes”

“The schools are really bad”. Here are the state test scores (2007 base API):
IB elementary 782
Crown Point Elem. 777
Pacific Beach Elem. 836

“There are lots of crappy apartments mixed in with single family” True for Pacific Beach also.

PB has a lot of SDSU students who drive up rents and keep the area trendy; they don’t just bring problems. Google Maps says that downtown IB to the Hotel Del Coronado is 13 minutes, and 25 minutes to SDSU. SDSU to Crystal Pier in PB is 21 minutes. So college students should be interested in IB.

Of course an area can fail to gentrify for many more decades…

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