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ParticipantI like the area North of CMB, east of Gennesee, west of 805 – especially the homes on San Clemente Canyon. These home are in the Hawthorne Elementary school area. I have a friend who sends her son to Hawthorne because she liked their Seminar program better than the one at Spreckels (in UC). She LOVES the school. Not sure how much of that is stictly love of this school’s seminar program.
I have friends who live off of Mt. Herbert – west of Genesee, north of Balboa. There are some really cool houses along finger canyons that run through there.
One of the schools over there is Muir – it’s a charter school that is K-12. Friends who send their kids there are really impressed with the school. I’m impressed with the parent volunteers that did all the new landscaping last year. (My children’s piano teacher is in the neighborhood so I watched them work on weekends.)
I have a friend who taught at Field (near the Clairemont Square) for several years. It’s student population has a lot of english learners – so that’s a data point for you.
As far as middle schools and high schools… I went to Marston and Clairemont HS… I turned out ok. But I just had my 30th HS reunion… so my data is a bit out of date. LOL.
ParticipantI like the area North of CMB, east of Gennesee, west of 805 – especially the homes on San Clemente Canyon. These home are in the Hawthorne Elementary school area. I have a friend who sends her son to Hawthorne because she liked their Seminar program better than the one at Spreckels (in UC). She LOVES the school. Not sure how much of that is stictly love of this school’s seminar program.
I have friends who live off of Mt. Herbert – west of Genesee, north of Balboa. There are some really cool houses along finger canyons that run through there.
One of the schools over there is Muir – it’s a charter school that is K-12. Friends who send their kids there are really impressed with the school. I’m impressed with the parent volunteers that did all the new landscaping last year. (My children’s piano teacher is in the neighborhood so I watched them work on weekends.)
I have a friend who taught at Field (near the Clairemont Square) for several years. It’s student population has a lot of english learners – so that’s a data point for you.
As far as middle schools and high schools… I went to Marston and Clairemont HS… I turned out ok. But I just had my 30th HS reunion… so my data is a bit out of date. LOL.
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There isnt too much room to expand. I dont understand all of it, but it was gonna cost him like a quarter mil+ to put a second story on it. An addition is possible, but not cheap any way it goes.
[/quote]Hubby just went through advising friends on this. Adding a 2nd story gets costly because the foundation/structure of a one story was designed to carry the roof load – not the roof load and another story. It can be addressed – but often involves putting in new load bearing footings and load bearing supports. If you have an open floor plan – you often end up with some kind of support (to support the 2nd story) right in the middle of it.
If you have reasons to keep the property (like this case) it can make sense. But it’s not trivial and adds to the cost.
Participant[quote=DWCAP]
There isnt too much room to expand. I dont understand all of it, but it was gonna cost him like a quarter mil+ to put a second story on it. An addition is possible, but not cheap any way it goes.
[/quote]Hubby just went through advising friends on this. Adding a 2nd story gets costly because the foundation/structure of a one story was designed to carry the roof load – not the roof load and another story. It can be addressed – but often involves putting in new load bearing footings and load bearing supports. If you have an open floor plan – you often end up with some kind of support (to support the 2nd story) right in the middle of it.
If you have reasons to keep the property (like this case) it can make sense. But it’s not trivial and adds to the cost.
Participant[quote=DWCAP]
There isnt too much room to expand. I dont understand all of it, but it was gonna cost him like a quarter mil+ to put a second story on it. An addition is possible, but not cheap any way it goes.
[/quote]Hubby just went through advising friends on this. Adding a 2nd story gets costly because the foundation/structure of a one story was designed to carry the roof load – not the roof load and another story. It can be addressed – but often involves putting in new load bearing footings and load bearing supports. If you have an open floor plan – you often end up with some kind of support (to support the 2nd story) right in the middle of it.
If you have reasons to keep the property (like this case) it can make sense. But it’s not trivial and adds to the cost.
Participant[quote=DWCAP]
There isnt too much room to expand. I dont understand all of it, but it was gonna cost him like a quarter mil+ to put a second story on it. An addition is possible, but not cheap any way it goes.
[/quote]Hubby just went through advising friends on this. Adding a 2nd story gets costly because the foundation/structure of a one story was designed to carry the roof load – not the roof load and another story. It can be addressed – but often involves putting in new load bearing footings and load bearing supports. If you have an open floor plan – you often end up with some kind of support (to support the 2nd story) right in the middle of it.
If you have reasons to keep the property (like this case) it can make sense. But it’s not trivial and adds to the cost.
Participant[quote=DWCAP]
There isnt too much room to expand. I dont understand all of it, but it was gonna cost him like a quarter mil+ to put a second story on it. An addition is possible, but not cheap any way it goes.
[/quote]Hubby just went through advising friends on this. Adding a 2nd story gets costly because the foundation/structure of a one story was designed to carry the roof load – not the roof load and another story. It can be addressed – but often involves putting in new load bearing footings and load bearing supports. If you have an open floor plan – you often end up with some kind of support (to support the 2nd story) right in the middle of it.
If you have reasons to keep the property (like this case) it can make sense. But it’s not trivial and adds to the cost.
ParticipantNo. That’s not my opinion. Obviously the President has many priorities and time commitments.
But people aren’t talking about the lives lost when this first happened. 11 families were torn asunder. There are no public funerals the way there were with the miners. There is little media attention to the fact that 11 people died. The media and political focus has been on the environmental disaster. Don’t get me wrong, the environmental damage is epic and deserves attention – but it’s like we forgot the people.
ParticipantNo. That’s not my opinion. Obviously the President has many priorities and time commitments.
But people aren’t talking about the lives lost when this first happened. 11 families were torn asunder. There are no public funerals the way there were with the miners. There is little media attention to the fact that 11 people died. The media and political focus has been on the environmental disaster. Don’t get me wrong, the environmental damage is epic and deserves attention – but it’s like we forgot the people.
ParticipantNo. That’s not my opinion. Obviously the President has many priorities and time commitments.
But people aren’t talking about the lives lost when this first happened. 11 families were torn asunder. There are no public funerals the way there were with the miners. There is little media attention to the fact that 11 people died. The media and political focus has been on the environmental disaster. Don’t get me wrong, the environmental damage is epic and deserves attention – but it’s like we forgot the people.
ParticipantNo. That’s not my opinion. Obviously the President has many priorities and time commitments.
But people aren’t talking about the lives lost when this first happened. 11 families were torn asunder. There are no public funerals the way there were with the miners. There is little media attention to the fact that 11 people died. The media and political focus has been on the environmental disaster. Don’t get me wrong, the environmental damage is epic and deserves attention – but it’s like we forgot the people.
ParticipantNo. That’s not my opinion. Obviously the President has many priorities and time commitments.
But people aren’t talking about the lives lost when this first happened. 11 families were torn asunder. There are no public funerals the way there were with the miners. There is little media attention to the fact that 11 people died. The media and political focus has been on the environmental disaster. Don’t get me wrong, the environmental damage is epic and deserves attention – but it’s like we forgot the people.
ParticipantI heard an interesting observation yesterday…
When the coal mine collapsed, killing those miners, there was outrage against the company for short cuts on safety, it was called murder… President Obama attended the funeral.
When the platform blew up – lives were lost. Again there are signs of shortcuts on safety… it might have been preventable. But no one is calling it murder, the President didn’t reach out to the families, etc.
I voted for Obama, but I see some hypocrisy here.
ParticipantI heard an interesting observation yesterday…
When the coal mine collapsed, killing those miners, there was outrage against the company for short cuts on safety, it was called murder… President Obama attended the funeral.
When the platform blew up – lives were lost. Again there are signs of shortcuts on safety… it might have been preventable. But no one is calling it murder, the President didn’t reach out to the families, etc.
I voted for Obama, but I see some hypocrisy here.
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