Why I am leaving San Diego

[bearishgurl]

[quote=jstoesz] . . . But a rent vs buy calculation should not be so lopsided for a starter. . . [/quote]

But jstoesz, the links you have posted to properties you liked and the neighborhoods you have posted that you would purchase into (excepting “Allied Gardens,” parts of “Clairemont” and your LM home built on a rock) are NOT “starter areas or homes.”

What I am saying here is that your taste in homes that you would actually purchase here in SD Co. is indicative of a “move-up buyer’s” taste WHO ALREADY HAS $100K to $400K in cash for a down payment (all or in part) from the sale of 1-2 prior pieces of real estate they owned here.

[quote=jstoesz]No problem. How about in order from best to worst. List of places we have thought about at one time or another.

Pipe dream (nice, safe, old, walkable)
– Point Loma
– Midtown
– Mission hills
– Mt Helix (not walkable but really cool homes and neighborhood)

out of reach (safe and kind of old and mostly walkable)
– University Heights
– Normal Heights
– Clairemont
– Bay Park

Crap but in my price range.
– La Mesa
– Allied Gardens[/quote]

As a “first time buyer” in SoCal (namely, SD County), your “requirements” DO NOT jive with what a typical “starter home” here is. I’m sorry to say that there is an obvious disconnect between your “desires” and what is “available” in your price range.

As sdr stated, “It is what it is.”

Seriously, I wish you all the best in Placerville and the Sac area. I think you will be more than pleased with what you can buy there with the typical resources of a first-time buyer. It’s not a bad place to live at all!

I actually hail from Alameda County, CA. In some ways I envy you, but I have a ball and chain connected to my ankle for 3.5 more years, lol :={

[bearishgurl]

[quote=jennyo]I was born in Sharp’s hospital in the late 60’s and raised in SD county – my parents built a home in Valley Center in 1976. After grad school I settled in Sacramento and work for the state government. I miss San Diego almost every day.[/quote]

jstoesz, LISTEN TO jennyo. “She” DIDN’T EVEN LIVE IN SD when she was growing up. Valley Center is situated in the FAR reaches of the county. Remember your Shelter Island “live-aboard days.”

The ache to return to a place like SD rarely subsides. It just gets locked away in your psyche somewhere only to rear its ugly head years down the line.

I know you gotta go to your new job now. Perhaps you will find a way later to return, with the ability to buy a place you and your spouse will be happy living in :=)

[bearishgurl]

[quote=jennyo]I was born in Sharp’s hospital in the late 60’s and raised in SD county – my parents built a home in Valley Center in 1976. After grad school I settled in Sacramento and work for the state government. I miss San Diego almost every day.[/quote]

jstoesz, LISTEN TO jennyo. “She” DIDN’T EVEN LIVE IN SD when she was growing up. Valley Center is situated in the FAR reaches of the county. Remember your Shelter Island “live-aboard days.”

The ache to return to a place like SD rarely subsides. It just gets locked away in your psyche somewhere only to rear its ugly head years down the line.

I know you gotta go to your new job now. Perhaps you will find a way later to return, with the ability to buy a place you and your spouse will be happy living in :=)

[bearishgurl]

[quote=jennyo]I was born in Sharp’s hospital in the late 60’s and raised in SD county – my parents built a home in Valley Center in 1976. After grad school I settled in Sacramento and work for the state government. I miss San Diego almost every day.[/quote]

jstoesz, LISTEN TO jennyo. “She” DIDN’T EVEN LIVE IN SD when she was growing up. Valley Center is situated in the FAR reaches of the county. Remember your Shelter Island “live-aboard days.”

The ache to return to a place like SD rarely subsides. It just gets locked away in your psyche somewhere only to rear its ugly head years down the line.

I know you gotta go to your new job now. Perhaps you will find a way later to return, with the ability to buy a place you and your spouse will be happy living in :=)

[bearishgurl]

[quote=jennyo]I was born in Sharp’s hospital in the late 60’s and raised in SD county – my parents built a home in Valley Center in 1976. After grad school I settled in Sacramento and work for the state government. I miss San Diego almost every day.[/quote]

jstoesz, LISTEN TO jennyo. “She” DIDN’T EVEN LIVE IN SD when she was growing up. Valley Center is situated in the FAR reaches of the county. Remember your Shelter Island “live-aboard days.”

The ache to return to a place like SD rarely subsides. It just gets locked away in your psyche somewhere only to rear its ugly head years down the line.

I know you gotta go to your new job now. Perhaps you will find a way later to return, with the ability to buy a place you and your spouse will be happy living in :=)

[bearishgurl]

[quote=jennyo]I was born in Sharp’s hospital in the late 60’s and raised in SD county – my parents built a home in Valley Center in 1976. After grad school I settled in Sacramento and work for the state government. I miss San Diego almost every day.[/quote]

jstoesz, LISTEN TO jennyo. “She” DIDN’T EVEN LIVE IN SD when she was growing up. Valley Center is situated in the FAR reaches of the county. Remember your Shelter Island “live-aboard days.”

The ache to return to a place like SD rarely subsides. It just gets locked away in your psyche somewhere only to rear its ugly head years down the line.

I know you gotta go to your new job now. Perhaps you will find a way later to return, with the ability to buy a place you and your spouse will be happy living in :=)

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

[quote=Ima Nass]

Look, nobody likes to have their little bubble pricked, but the kind of senseless worship for somewhere that really has little to justify the real estate values experienced in recent times, is just plain silly. San Diego is OK comparatively speaking, but there’s nothing special about it. The weather is nice, but as soon as a cloud hovers near the sun, everyone is terrified, because they don’t want to face up to the truth. It’s classic Cinderella syndrome, and strong reactions against hearing the truth is so symptomatic of that. Hate me all want, but I have no special interest in saying anything other than what I truly believe to be the case. If everyone said, “Oh, you know its OK, it has its good and bad points like everywhere”, I can live with that …but making somewhere out to be paradise when it clearly isn’t is delusional, and then getting upset when told otherwise is childish.[/quote]

Dude, relax. I already pricked my own bubble (check out my username). Also, we all know you’re an ass (check out your username).

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

[quote=Ima Nass]

Look, nobody likes to have their little bubble pricked, but the kind of senseless worship for somewhere that really has little to justify the real estate values experienced in recent times, is just plain silly. San Diego is OK comparatively speaking, but there’s nothing special about it. The weather is nice, but as soon as a cloud hovers near the sun, everyone is terrified, because they don’t want to face up to the truth. It’s classic Cinderella syndrome, and strong reactions against hearing the truth is so symptomatic of that. Hate me all want, but I have no special interest in saying anything other than what I truly believe to be the case. If everyone said, “Oh, you know its OK, it has its good and bad points like everywhere”, I can live with that …but making somewhere out to be paradise when it clearly isn’t is delusional, and then getting upset when told otherwise is childish.[/quote]

Dude, relax. I already pricked my own bubble (check out my username). Also, we all know you’re an ass (check out your username).

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

[quote=Ima Nass]

Look, nobody likes to have their little bubble pricked, but the kind of senseless worship for somewhere that really has little to justify the real estate values experienced in recent times, is just plain silly. San Diego is OK comparatively speaking, but there’s nothing special about it. The weather is nice, but as soon as a cloud hovers near the sun, everyone is terrified, because they don’t want to face up to the truth. It’s classic Cinderella syndrome, and strong reactions against hearing the truth is so symptomatic of that. Hate me all want, but I have no special interest in saying anything other than what I truly believe to be the case. If everyone said, “Oh, you know its OK, it has its good and bad points like everywhere”, I can live with that …but making somewhere out to be paradise when it clearly isn’t is delusional, and then getting upset when told otherwise is childish.[/quote]

Dude, relax. I already pricked my own bubble (check out my username). Also, we all know you’re an ass (check out your username).

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

[quote=Ima Nass]

Look, nobody likes to have their little bubble pricked, but the kind of senseless worship for somewhere that really has little to justify the real estate values experienced in recent times, is just plain silly. San Diego is OK comparatively speaking, but there’s nothing special about it. The weather is nice, but as soon as a cloud hovers near the sun, everyone is terrified, because they don’t want to face up to the truth. It’s classic Cinderella syndrome, and strong reactions against hearing the truth is so symptomatic of that. Hate me all want, but I have no special interest in saying anything other than what I truly believe to be the case. If everyone said, “Oh, you know its OK, it has its good and bad points like everywhere”, I can live with that …but making somewhere out to be paradise when it clearly isn’t is delusional, and then getting upset when told otherwise is childish.[/quote]

Dude, relax. I already pricked my own bubble (check out my username). Also, we all know you’re an ass (check out your username).

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

[quote=Ima Nass]

Look, nobody likes to have their little bubble pricked, but the kind of senseless worship for somewhere that really has little to justify the real estate values experienced in recent times, is just plain silly. San Diego is OK comparatively speaking, but there’s nothing special about it. The weather is nice, but as soon as a cloud hovers near the sun, everyone is terrified, because they don’t want to face up to the truth. It’s classic Cinderella syndrome, and strong reactions against hearing the truth is so symptomatic of that. Hate me all want, but I have no special interest in saying anything other than what I truly believe to be the case. If everyone said, “Oh, you know its OK, it has its good and bad points like everywhere”, I can live with that …but making somewhere out to be paradise when it clearly isn’t is delusional, and then getting upset when told otherwise is childish.[/quote]

Dude, relax. I already pricked my own bubble (check out my username). Also, we all know you’re an ass (check out your username).

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

Back to jstoesz original thesis …
Based on a comparison of home prices versus income he has concluded that Californians are irresponsible.

However, upon objectively looking at the evidence, one could just as easily surmise that people in Minneapolis in aggregate are miserly tightwads.

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

Back to jstoesz original thesis …
Based on a comparison of home prices versus income he has concluded that Californians are irresponsible.

However, upon objectively looking at the evidence, one could just as easily surmise that people in Minneapolis in aggregate are miserly tightwads.

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

Back to jstoesz original thesis …
Based on a comparison of home prices versus income he has concluded that Californians are irresponsible.

However, upon objectively looking at the evidence, one could just as easily surmise that people in Minneapolis in aggregate are miserly tightwads.

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

Back to jstoesz original thesis …
Based on a comparison of home prices versus income he has concluded that Californians are irresponsible.

However, upon objectively looking at the evidence, one could just as easily surmise that people in Minneapolis in aggregate are miserly tightwads.

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