[bearishgurl]

[quote=moscin]…My wife is nervous about the move and I would like to find an area that will have other stay at home mom’s in their 30s so that the transition will be easier for her…. [/quote]

moscin, I just found this data on Heritage Estates (which you may already have seen). I don’t know how accurate it is but on the “Distribution of Residents’ Ages” graph, it shows the average adult male resident is 55 years old and the average adult female resident is 45 years old, with a few sprinkled boomers in their 60’s. Acc to the graph, there are virtually no residents there between the ages of 23 and 33.

http://www.city-data.com/neighborhood/The-Heritage-Poway-CA.html

There DOES appear to be children there but some of those children, in actuality, may be residing with grandparents instead of parents (or the children AND their parents reside with their parents). This is a very common practice in CA coastal counties due to the high cost of housing and young parents’ fervent desire to send their kids to schools which are located in areas in which they could never afford to live in themselves.

Not saying YOU couldn’t afford to live there but I don’t know how many young moms your spouse would actually run into there on a daily basis.

Just something to think about on your “due diligence” when house-hunting.

I’m not familiar with the subdivision in RB that you mentioned but agree with sdduuuude that RB is a very well-known senior-citizen community, having been originally built as the only completely HOA-controlled community in SD for senior citizens.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=CDMA ENG]sdr is “speaking for himself”? I believe that is you.

The man just told you where it is that he wanted to live and you tried to sell him on something else.[/quote]

CDMA, did you even LOOK at the link I provided? It is in one of THE finest communities in Poway, where the OP is considering different subdivisions. Why don’t you go back to school and learn how to read and comprehend?

[bearishgurl]

[quote=sdrealtor]…OK…now get ready for the resident lunatic to come in and warn about the evils of planned communities, homeowners associations and Mello Roos.[/quote]

You’re speaking for yourself again, sdr.

moscin, besides all of the extra expenses sdr just mentioned, it is actually the *newer* communities which tend to have the type of residents that are into “keeping up with the joneses.” Some of these areas have a lot of distressed properties because their “status-conscious `owners'” have borrowed everything they could from their properties in order to “keep up appearances.”

Pay no mind to “realtor steering-tactics.” There are PLENTY of young families living in older areas of SD County which do not have Mello Roos payments (in addition to PITI), Poway being one of them.

Not sure of your price range, but have you considered this subdivision in Poway? This property is situated on 1 AC and does NOT have Mello Roos.

http://www.trulia.com/property/3082974833-14290-Palisades-Dr-Poway-CA-92064

moscin, you never mentioned here what vicinity you will be working in after your transfer. This information is critical to your housing location, due to daily commute time.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=jwizzle]flu – what high school was this? (I assume a LAUSD one?) They did this at my high school too, and I’m wondering if it is the same school (I lived in Lomita), or if they targeted a bunch of schools in the (LA) South Bay.[/quote]

OT: Hi, jwizzle . . . Did you finally have your baby? If so, congratulations!

[bearishgurl]

[quote=desmond]It will probably be worse in 10 years, and flu it will be here so fast you won’t believe it. My daughter graduated last Saturday so I am finished. We bit the bullet and sent our kids to private schools in Texas. I finished 8 years of private HS and 8 years of private College for my two kids. I got lucky on a couple of houses that made it easier to pay for but holy S I do not even want to know what we actually paid. I cannot imagine what people will do in the future paying for college. These colleges are like f- ing country clubs and just keep raising the green fees. In my mind I kept saying “thank you sir may I have another”.[/quote]

Good for YOU, Desmond. TX is one of the states I have in mind to establish residency for my last kid. Unlike you, I didn’t “make a killing” on two houses and can’t pay for private HS, private college or out-of-state tuition.

I have relatives in three other states which could assist my kid with assimilation and getting a job to establish residency, if need be.

You seem to have sacrificed a lot for your kids (I take it you are renting now?) and I’m SURE you’re VERY glad to be done with it :=]

[bearishgurl]

I see it taking 6+ years to get a four-year degree at CA public universities in the near future, with CSU taking longer than UC to finish. This will get ridiculously expensive as CSU is ALREADY $1731 for <6 credit hours (which may be all an undergraduate student can actually obtain in ONE semester when they begin working on their major). This doesn’t include parking, health/student center fees or books/materials.

http://www.calstate.edu/budget/student-fees/fee-rates/

I am also concerned about the ongoing massive defense drawdown which is and will cut loose thousands of military “careerists” who have 10-20 years service. They will get educational benefits in lieu of retiring with 20 years of service and may even be offered a partial pension. I believe these affected 27-37 yo soldiers and sailors who remain are CA after discharge from the service are going to get first priority in CA university admissions over and above our current HS kids who are trying mightily to get accepted. They will be considered a “resident student” for fee purposes regardless of their home state of residency. This will force most CA HS grads into CC for their two years of college, IMO.

If my kid ends up locked out of CSU/UC, I will find a way for them to “establish residency” in another state where public university admissions are not so limited/impacted, even if they are an entering junior (CA CC grad) at the time and still cannot get in. If we have to wait out a year and work in the new locale to establish residency, so be it. This will take LESS time and be LESS expensive than playing this game with trying to get the classes to graduate at CSU/UC.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=SD Realtor]No I am not barking up any wrong tree.

Bankruptcy laws should apply here. The minute you start exonerating certain parties then the entire system is tainted.

It doesn’t matter how big the framework is. If the framework is f-d up, then it needs to be fixed. It should not matter if that framework is private or public.[/quote]

Glad to hear you’re on board, here, SDR. If you live in SR (SD), here is your representative:

http://assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembernathanfletcher

If you’re registered to vote, your representative is currently running for SD Mayor under a “city pension-reform platform”:

http://nathanfletcher.com/

If not, why not? The deadline to register for the June Primary is May 21 and you can now register (or reregister for another party affiliation) online:

https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/register-to-vote/

I’ll tell you the same thing I told pri-“harvey” on a recent thread:

pri, have you sharpened your pencil to begin gutting and pasting that pesky voluminous old legislation into a *new* redraft to eventually find its way in front of the “public” as I suggested to you and others here on a least two occasions??

You’ve repeated your vitriolic posts about this issue for much longer than the time if would have taken you to work closely with your legislator to drum up some votes among his/her brethren to get these issues on the ballot this year!!

I’ll get you started:

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate?WAISdocID=03167410629+0+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate?WAISdocID=03183811816+1+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate?WAISdocID=03189212211+0+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate?WAISdocID=03434829811+0+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate?WAISdocID=034388113+9+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve

etc.

If you want CHANGE, you need to be part of the solution! Instead, it seems “easier” to just post away into the blogosphere lamenting about how “unfair” it all is, lol …..

This isn’t something that be fixed by turning down one’s “amplifier.”

Time’s a wastin’ ……. So GET BUSY!! :=]

http://piggington.com/more_public_pension_loony_tunes_now_providence_ri_is_in_trouble

Call Fletcher’s local office ASAP at (858) 629-6290 and ask to speak to his “legislative analyst.” Tell him/her you are free to set up meetings and come in to cull the law to begin “gutting and pasting” beginning with the above sections for Fletcher to reintroduce to his brethren up north to drum up interest for votes on a partial or wholesale repeal. If he becomes Mayor of SD, his successor can pick up the slack!

Who knows, you might even end up getting a couple of free RT’s to Sac and a couple nights stay at a nice HoJo up there!

Glad I could be of assistance! Hey . . . AND . . . GOOD LUCK!! (I sincerely mean that!)

[bearishgurl]

[quote=flu][quote=SD Realtor]Could not agree more Paramount. The ONLY way to get leverage and renegotiate with ALL CREDITORS including organized labor (public and private) is through bankruptcy.

This is what the city of San Diego should have done and it is definitely what California should do.

This problem is not going to go away.

Guess what, if the state raises 16B in revenue then it will spend 32B shortly after.[/quote]

But as long as they can continue to raise more taxes, BK isnt on the table.[/quote]

SDR and flu, are you CERTAIN that (Federal) BK judges will have the jurisdiction to discharge debts originating from contracts with unions and long ago-enacted retirement formulas in a Chapter 9 proceeding?

Since both of these types of “debts” are supported and bound by a HUGE framework of state law put in place by our Legislature decades ago, I just don’t see this constellation.

I think you may be barking up the wrong tree, here.

[bearishgurl]

Uhhh, pri-“harvey,” the “mandatory class-size reduction” in CA public schools only affected grades K-3. My youngest was the only one affected by class-size reduction, and, now in HS, they are still a “successful-person-in-the-making.”

The jury is still out on whether the mandatory class-size reduction in the primary grades creates more successful adults as those affected kids haven’t had time to graduate from college yet. I can tell you that my kid(s) who had 30+ pupils in their primary grades are VERY successful now!

The ONE thing I CAN say on the program’s behalf (not really sure it was on behalf of reduced class size, though) is that my youngest made the same good grades in primary grades as the older one(s) did and I did NOT pay for them to go to “Pre-K” in the school year preceding kindergarten. They went directly from home daycare to kindergarten. (A commercial or home daycare “Pre-K” program with a trained teacher is more expensive than daycare alone.)

Aren’t all you Piggs smart and successful without the benefit of reduced class size in primary grades??

Just sayin’ …. the reduced class-size program required nearly twice as many certified teachers in each school in the primary grades and no doubt cost CA taxpayers a FORTUNE. It’s a smart and doable education cut right now, IMO.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=AN]…I’m a established resident and I’m excited about the master plan. Not only will the master plan brings more parks and trails to the area, they will also bring in retail. Which means more restaurant options. Due to increase demand, this will, hopefully bring in more high end and more mom and pop restaurants. The masterplan is zoned in a way that bring the building up to the side walk, which will encourage walking. The retail will be mixed in with the residential to support both the residential and the workers working at the commercial areas.

Also, because of these two development, the main Mira Mesa park (corner of New Salem and Mira Mesa) will be completely rebuilt. It’s a $25M project and 2/3 of the cost will be footed by these two development. So, that’s a big improvement in quality of life for the current owners.[/quote]

AN, for you and your family’s sake, I hope the proposed developments turn out to be the assets to MM that you think they will be. Truly …. I DO!

But it sounds to me here as if you may have been lured into drinking from Big Developments’ lemonade stands. Chipping in $17M for a “community park” isn’t near enough consolation to a fairly small urban community for putting up with 9K+ more resident-vehicles, IMHO. The development(s) may very well be built as “walkable” communities but that doesn’t mean the tenants who rent there won’t own 1-2 vehicles per unit. Obviously, all these units will have to have parking. Hopefully, it will be underground. If most of the new residents will work in SV or the Golden Triangle, as everyone seems to think, than what’s the advantage of MM residents not needing to use freeways for their daily commute to work? All of them (incl the 9K or so EXTRA workers/vehicles) will be using the same surface streets during rush hours!

Maybe after MM is all built out with 6800 more units, lining up for the “two-vehs-per-green” fwy ramps will look like the better bet :=0

[bearishgurl]

[quote=sdrealtor]Location, location, location. Close to the jobs and good access to everything good about SD. In the last decade or so they built at least 2 times this many LARGE single family homes as well as thousands of condos in the Encinitas/South Carlsbad/SW San Marcos area. I dont see many of them sitting empty. They will have no problem absorbing that many.[/quote]

Nirvana is NOT MM. They are apples and oranges. The construction in Nirvana was mostly SFRs built on tract. Several of the condo complexes that were built there during the same era were simply to satisfy developers’ “low-income” housing requirements in exchange for permitting their “profit-making” SFR tracts.

The main thoroughfares in MM have been severely crowded for years (before I read about this here, I actually thought MM was built out). It didn’t really connect it my mind that the vacant land east of the cemetery was part of MM. Until consulting a current Thomas Guide, I guess I assumed it was in 92121, lol.

San Marcos IS comparable to MM in many ways. HOWEVER it had MUCH more open space available than MM did, but was not zoned for tract development until +/- ten years ago. Remember that SEH, San Marcos’ *new* master-planned community, houses its largest source of new population in the last decade. The land SEH sits on was NOT AVAILABLE for residential building before that as it surrounded a methane-producing longtime LANDFILL.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=no_such_reality]LOL, California is addicted to something for nothing.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-911-changes-20120515,0,4265385.story

For too many, the solution is another program. Obviously, the paramedics should treat the person’s gout in his home. Right?, no. The paramedics shouldn’t be envolved.[/quote]

NSR: So, the article mentions that 8 (eight!) first responders rolled on that call. Eight! I don’t know what the hourly rate is, but that has to be a significant amount of money expended on what amounts to a nuisance call (nothing against the gout-ridden dude, but that ain’t what the 911 services are for), and doesn’t count fuel and other expenses, along with the opportunity costs (those same personnel could have rolled on a REAL call instead.)

This story is sort of California in microcosm: Lots of money wasted on services of little benefit.[/quote]

This is a ridiculous waste of taxpayer funds, IMO. The LA dispatchers are obviously not getting the REAL story before summoning emergency responders, IMO. Perhaps they are not trained to see thru these scams. There are many things they could have done, including questioning the caller more thoroughly and/or ask to speak to someone with or surrounding the caller. This is not unheard of. Honestly, they should place a county lien against this individual for summoning emergency help when he only needed to wheel himself to the bus stop or ask someone to do this for him if he was in pain. But what good would it do? The caller is obviously indigent and feels he is “entitled” to everyone springing into action when he has a hangnail.

First responders, incl fire and police agencies in SD County charge callers for false alarms and other time wasters on a case-by-case basis (incl those agencies/contractors in Chula Vista). It is not an insignificant amount (avg of $170 per “false” alarm).

[bearishgurl]

There is no effing way 1800-6800 units would EVER be built in my area, even if four adjacent 2 AC lots (with an older home on each of them) were sold off simultaneously to one buyer tomorrow. There is no way in h@ll a developer could ever get past strong community opposition, who successfully killed plans for an eight-story residential tower a few years ago. That two AC lot still sits vacant to this day.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=flu][quote=ocrenter]oh boy, you think Mira Mesa/Black Mountain is bad now… hey, at least the city should make a killing from the red light camera when cars are stuck in the middle of the intersection…[/quote]The city is going to end up loaded with all the rental tax and fees and commerce from it too.[/quote]

The $64M question here is, where will all the future rental tax, fees and sales tax generated from these proposed MM projects be deployed to? Remember, the City of SD is nearly broke. They might use it to fix potholes in Sherman Heights or Rolando, shore up their “general fund,” or for a myriad of other pressing needs.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=sdrealtor]I would agree. I’d add that all the new building will be high end rentals at higher rates. That should pull up rents on low end condos and houses in the nice parts of town.[/quote]

Won’t it just cause prospective tenants to flock to the new construction and shun the older nearby units (similar to what happened in Chula Vista in the last nine years or so)?

I mean, now many units is too much? Isn’t a 5000 + 1800 (6800) unit-projection a little “ambitious?” I understand they will be fairly close to SV but is this REALLY where every incoming worker wants to live given all the choices in this county? And will their REALLY be enough tenants to fill all these units that actually want to live in them?

These projects, if actually built, don’t seem to bode too well for the quality of life of the long-established resident homeowners in MM.

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