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Yeah for property values in RB, 4S Ranch, Del Sur, Poway, Escondido, PQ, Torrey Highlands, Carmel Valley! Although I fear the traffic.

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There’s also a new Total Wine in Carmel Mountain. It’s next to Nordstrom Rack, where Saks Off 5th used to be.

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My kids are 6 and 8. For whatever reason, they have NEVER slept in our bed since they were more than 6 months old. There was never a traumatic “Cry It Out” experience either. We just started putting them in a crib at a young age and they always understood that they had a separate bed. When they were 2 or 3 and waking up before us and coming to our room we would invite them to get into bed and snuggle, but for the most part, they were not interested.

Since they were less than 2 years old they have been phenomenal sleepers and currently sleep from about 8:30 PM to 7AM every night. They NEVER wake up in the middle of the night. I can literally only remember once or twice each when they have ever woken up.

Still, I wouldn’t them to be 2 floors away downstairs.

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Here’s a relevant article in the LA Times about http://articles.latimes.com/1986-08-05/business/fi-1545_1_first-time-buyers about San Diegans buying their first properties for under $100K in 1986. Del Mar Heights is mentioned as a place where an attached home could be found in that range.

Something just made me nostalgic about the big fat Sunday newspapers of the early 1990s. Remember when there were at LEAST 2 huge sections of the San Diego Union Sunday paper devoted to ads for new home developments? I would look at those ads, wondering how far away those new neighborhoods were, and looking over the floor plans, and pictures of smiling families…

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I remember checking out some of the Del Mar Highlands model homes back in early 1986. This was Carmel Valley way back before that name came about… it was considered to be Del Mar or even North City West on the maps. I was in 5th grade and we had just moved to San Diego from the Midwest. I recall that an attached townhouse or duplex was $109,000. That seemed way out of reach for us at the time. But I guess it would have been a great investment. 🙁 I’ve thought about that many times since then.

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I lived in Kensington growing up (1986-1998) but didn’t get over to Talmadge very much. However, I considered it a nice area. However, it seems to lack the “main street” walkability of Kensington.

I have known two couples who lived there. One couple (two editors) lived there from roughly 2000-2005 and moved to Carmel Valley when they started having kids.

Another couple I knew (two physicians) bought a home and lived there from 2005-2008. They liked it a lot and had one child while living there, although he did not start school there. I think they lost money, though, given the situation in the real estate market when they had to sell in late 2008.

I’m not sure what you meant by “the gated area”. Are you talking about Alvarado Estates? Or is there another gated area in Talmadge itself? See, I am really not that familiar despite living within a couple of miles from there during my formative years.

As for schools, you may be able to choice into Hearst/Lewis/Patrick Henry in Del Cerro/Allied Gardens. Those schools are still fairly decent, from what I understand.

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For 2017:
A relative of mine had a GPA > 4, but not all A’s. She got into several CSUs, UC Santa Cruz and UC Davis, but not UCLA. Didn’t apply to the others, nor to any private schools.

Not a comparison, but more random data:

My relative’s good friend had a GPA > 4, all A’s, a bajillion extracurriculars. Asian-American. She got into UCLA, Berkeley, and USC, but not into Cornell, Brown, or Stanford.

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I like that area, too. When we were looking for a home 5 years ago, I seem to recall some chatter on this board about some of the homes being uninsurable due to prior fires in that area. (I never independently verified it, though.) However, this area was heavily affected by the 2003 fires. In fact, I think that some of the newer homes that you mention are the ones that were rebuilt after that fire.

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I like that area, too. When we were looking for a home 5 years ago, I seem to recall some chatter on this board about some of the homes being uninsurable due to prior fires in that area. (I never independently verified it, though.) However, this area was heavily affected by the 2003 fires. In fact, I think that some of the newer homes that you mention are the ones that were rebuilt after that fire.

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In fact, I went to the RB one last night (Saturday) and it was absolutely 100% packed to the gills. The line goes out the door and you have to wait a bit to get a table. That location is always full on Fridays, Sundays, and Wednesdays, too. I’ve never tried the other days.

Mission Gorge is also always pretty full.

I’ve also tried Clairemont, La Mesa, and West LA/Brentwood. I don’t remember them being quite as crowded, but they still seemed to be pretty popular.

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I am NOT a fan of the all cement front yard! Xeriscape is fine, but all cement looks like it’s made to park an RV.

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Strange. But also strange that she used her full first and last name as her username here. Hardly anyone else here has done that.

Maybe this is a random person pretending to be Courtney and hoping that someone will look up the properties and see that Courtney is the owner, and then call her out, as someone just did.

But WHY?

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I think the kids are also assigned to Solana Santa Fe Elementary and that feeder pattern, rather than to Poway Unified schools like the rest of 92127.

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I’ll add one data point. 20 years ago, during college, I had a friend who had attended Bonita Vista High School in Chula Vista. One day, while hanging out, I met one of his former high school friends. Sure enough, that friend did indeed live in Tijuana (with his entire family) but had crossed the border every day to attend high school in the US. He openly admitted this.

I couldn’t understand how this was “legal”, considering that he wasn’t a U.S. resident. Obviously, it wasn’t legal. Basically, it was the phenomenon that BG has been talking about. I was kind of shocked by it all.

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I remember that it was earlyretirement (from Santa Luz) who paid off the Mello Roos. I haven’t seen him on here for a very long time, though.

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