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[quote=zk]Brian, you seem to have this strange idea that if a person’s bed isn’t made, they’re living a horrible existence. I couldn’t care less if my bed is made. I only make it because it makes my wife happy.

I understand why she wants the bed made. I understand why you want the bed made. My wife understands that I don’t care if the bed is made and appreciates when I make it for her. What I don’t understand is why you don’t understand that to some people it’s ok that the bed is not made.
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From a microbiology point of view, making your bed immediately in the morning is actually leaving it dirtier. People sweat, drool, etc., which leaves their bottom (fitted) sheet moist and teaming will all sorts of little critters. If you don’t give that proper time to dry out, you essentially are creating a Petri dish to sleep in.

Definitely make it before you have company, or in the middle of the day. If you want it to look “neat” when it is unmade, then have the sheets neatly folded when they are turned back. But don’t assume keeping a bed made is keeping it cleaner. LOL

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[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=CA renter] And there are way more trees in LA than in SD. It’s weird…people in San Diego seem to have something against trees. They cut them down every chance they get, probably because everything is on a hill here and the trees block the views. Some think trees are “dirty” because the leaves fall. Very strange…and sad, IMO.[/quote]

I agree.

There are more HOAs in San Diego. They like to trim… a job to do, monthly fees to collect.

I noticed that in newer cities, they trim trees a lot more… Irvine, San Diego, Dallas, etc.

The shopping centers like to keep things clear so people can see the signs.

I was in Pasadena not long ago. They have beautiful streets with oak canopies. In SD, developers plant cheap trees that are like Barbie doll trees.
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I’m not a gardening/landscape expert nor do I play one on TV, but our soil is a great deal different than that in Pasadena/LA. You simply cannot grow trees like that here. The only trees that do grow well here are eucalyptus, and I think we know all the negatives that come with them.

I want to echo something that Barneby said – San Diego’s environment is classified as “coastal arid desert”. Our natural color is brown, and the only reason we have green things around here is irrigation. If we don’t get a few El Nino winters or an abnormally wet winter like 2004-5, we are about to run into a big world of trouble when it comes to water.

Everything else aside, NYMom, if green is important to you don’t move to California – especially Baja San Diego. You’ll be miserable.

I disagree with ScaredyCat, though – your husband isn’t a momma’s boy. He’s a typical native Californian. If you take most of the people that post in this forum and plot them down elsewhere, they’d have the same issues. Human nature…

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[quote=njtosd]I’m not saying that I am sure about the dementia theory. However, symptoms of frontal lobe dementia begin in the 50s to early 60s.[/quote]

In my hometown of a small, mostly inconsequential town in Indiana, there was a well respected guy that owned a shoe store in town that ended up a very major player in the Indiana Republican Party. His major claim to fame was being one of the people that got a guy named Dan Quayle to run for a representative spot that was in play, and after a few terms he was one of the people that saw Birch Bayh as vulnerable and got him to run for senate. We know the rest.

I wasn’t necessarily into his politics, but we had a lot of nice talks, and I was good friends with his youngest daughter. Certainly one of the more respected adults I knew.

Anyhow, this guy ended up, along with being the district party chair, the local trustee – a party gift position. Nothing controversial about that, but one of the things this position dealt with was welfare recipients. Out of the blue, a few accusations of him asking recipients for quid pro quou sexual favors emerged, and it blew up. Lost his position (naturally), ended up divorced, and ended up in prison. They let him out when he was clearly in his last days, and he died a few months later – pretty much in disgrace.

For all I knew, this guy always had a secret life, but I just dodn’t see it being a teenage doof. However, most people, and I guess I, think that he had some sort of brain cancer/tumor/whatever completely mess him up.

DeMaio – the gay thing was not a factor, but I do think that he could have been concerned that people would start digging into the history of his Balboa Park lily pond destroying partner. I found it interesting how they took Fletcher apart because they thought he was less beatable than Slobberin’ Bob.

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I’m not sure I get the dementia theory – aren’t a lot of the “16” reporting incidents that took place 5-10 years ago, back during Filner’s Washington days? And why weren’t at least a few of those things reported then? Is the quid pro quo system inside the Beltway so great that all of these women felt they were going to lose some sort of tangible benefit by coming forward?

We had a sniff of this behavior when Bob had that nasty run-in with a TSA agent. Like many other people, I sort of ignored this, because it was the *TSA* after all, an entity that has employees that piss off otherwise reasonable people. We also had Carl DeMaio come forward during a debate and hint that Filner had issues, but I thought that was just an extension of the TSA issue, and he didn’t suggest otherwise.

If they knew more – and it certainly sounds like they did – I don’t get is why DeMaio’s camp didn’t exploit this for what it was worth during the election run-up. Did their numbers suggest that wouldn’t need to go that route? If I didn’t know better, it almost seemed as if they *tried* to sandbag the election for themselves.

Politics in this town are crazy.

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Not sure why you are having a tantrum and deleting your thread, flu. I make a little wisecrack with a smiley, and that is why Piggington sucks?

If you were trying to make some sort of salient point, then why did you not want to share it with us? Del Mar Union’s SuperintendentGate was far more controversial than this, and even that got swept under the rug.

Thanks for correcting me, zk – I had Sage Canyon confused with Oceanaire in terms of age.

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[quote=paramount]I’ve doubled down since then, I’m just now recovering from the crash, and I don’t won’t some johnny-come-lately troll derailing any recovery.
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I don’t think one new poster on Piggington is going to have much of an effect on a relatively large housing market. Temecula may simply not be for him. Maybe doesn’t like all the cowboys out there or something.

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[quote=bearishgurl]There are TOO MANY prospective BUYERS out there who want a *newer* and *bigger* house for less money. They don’t CARE where its located.

There seems to be a HUGE HOMEBUYING CONTINGENT in “Gen Y” who doesn’t give a rat’s ass about a big lot (too much work) and doesn’t CARE if they have to commute ~1 hr+ to/from work to get the house they want at a particular price point … at least they don’t seem to care at the time they sign on the dotted line…
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Though I think these are reasonable points, I think you are dismissing the “wide open spaces” contingent of people that are interested in Temecula. I guess you can get that in parts of Ramona, but that really isn’t that much of a better commute than Temecula, and you are a heck of a lot further from a good part of civilization than you would be with Temecula.

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[quote=bearishgurl]Sorry, I meant to say earlier that CVESD and SUHSD move their principals from their post every 2-3 years.

These are the two public school districts in Chula Vista.[/quote]

I sort of figured that out, and wasn’t going to call out a typo. 🙂 Pretty sure that is SOP in SDUSD as well, too.

Interestingly enough, Sage Canyon has been opened 3 years, which seems to fit right in with your 2-3 year measure. Every single school that we’ve followed for one reason or other switches principals about every 3 years. Part of the game.

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[quote=SDHopes]Paramount,

What made you change your tune?

http://piggington.com/should_i_buy_in_temecula%5B/quote%5D

I’ve not yet seen an answer to this. Trolling or not, it is very interesting to see people’s opinions evolve over a relatively short period of time. What say you, Paramount?

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If it doesn’t effect you, why did you post? 🙂

School districts move principals around all the time. Sycamore Ridge has a slightly lower API than Sage Canyon (963 vs. 982 – but that actually is less of a difference than you’d expect given the difference in average housing price). So, there really is no difference in school achievement when it comes down to it, and I’m willing to bet that Bob Fillner could be the principal of Sage Canyon and it wouldn’t affect their test scores.

Much to do about nothing, isn’t it? Or do soccer moms need something to worry about?

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I’m sort of curious, BearishGirl, why you care about this topic. It’s about like me chiming in about what is better – Eastlake or Bonita Vista.

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[quote=bearishgurl]CAR, I’ve started a new thread to reply to you and poll/discuss this interesting topic because it is getting way OT here.[/quote]

It’s been off topic for a while. 😉

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Yeah – the days of 1/2 day kindergarten went away quite a few years ago. They are getting out of school at the same time with all the other students, and they have a lot of homework (another reason we went the private school route). There is no “DASH” program in San Diego Unified. What is available varies school by school. Up in UC, after care is generally provided by the SAY program and/or the YMCA.

I’m not sure why you are contorting yourself arguing some point that really isn’t that pertinent here, because in the past two years our daughter easily comes in the top ten percent in the amount of extra care that has been used at her school. Believe me, we use it, and we know very well what after care is like at our school and what it’s like at the various grade schools in our area.

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Don’t think you quite got the gist of my message, BearishGirl. We make extensive use of the after hours program at our current school. For us, it amounted to this:

1. 7:30 bell times require incredibly early wakeups for us (we are not a well oiled machine in the morning), and we are not early to bed types.

2. 7:30 – 6:00 is a long day for a kid K-2.

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To be fair, the OP seemed more bothered about the bell schedule than test scores, though that could be a cover. This sort of brings up something that has always confused me – San Diego Unified has bell schedules all across the board, and in some cases even within a high school boundary (Scripps Ranch and University City are two that come to mind). I don’t understand why they don’t simply pick a standard time.

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