Some questions about Porter Ranch

[Lovehound]

Originally Posted by SFValley

We just moved to CA and looking for a house in SF Valley. We are looking at some houses in SF valley and our realtor suggested that we consider Porter Ranch because it has newer homes with somewhat bigger lots. We haven't seen it yet, but we were under the impression that it was a small town next to Northridge, but it looks like the official address of Porter Ranch homes list Northridge as a city, not Porter Ranch.

I went through this entire exercise 1-2 years ago, and you can see I ended up in the Santa Clarita Valley.

Trust me on this and I'm not going to make it a big thing in this topic, but if you see what we have in Santa Clarita Valley you will wonder why you ever considered SFV.

Just one caveat: I can't see any comment about where you will work. Maybe from home? Even though the I-5 widening project is almost complete and it will be a breeze to commute from SCV to SFV, but don't count on that lasting for more than several years.

Trust me SFV, ask your agent to show you houses in SCV just one day and then get back to me and tell me your experience. Send me a pm and I will tell you exactly where to look. Include your price range in the pm.

[elhelmete]

Originally Posted by Lovehound

I went through this entire exercise 1-2 years ago, and you can see I ended up in the Santa Clarita Valley.

Trust me on this and I'm not going to make it a big thing in this topic, but if you see what we have in Santa Clarita Valley you will wonder why you ever considered SFV.

Just one caveat: I can't see any comment about where you will work. Maybe from home? Even though the I-5 widening project is almost complete and it will be a breeze to commute from SCV to SFV, but don't count on that lasting for more than several years.

Trust me SFV, ask your agent to show you houses in SCV just one day and then get back to me and tell me your experience. Send me a pm and I will tell you exactly where to look. Include your price range in the pm.

I think I know what you're getting at and I somewhat agree. The housing stock in the SCV is by and large newer than the SFV on the whole, and while I won't say too much here I'll add that as a newer suburb, it (SCV) doesn't have some of the less desirable stuff the SFV has. And no I'm not talking about race...just the stuff that normally comes with older housing stock and a denser population. That's a big plus.

But...where one works is critical. I'll politely disagree that the I-5 project will make things demonstrably better for SCV commuters unless you work in the northern end of the SFV or Burbank. Then there's the 405...nuff said. If you're on the westside or SaMo or anywhere else south of say Sherman Way you have a big slog ahead of you every single day. My best SCV friend jokes that he'd probably love his home in Valencia if he ever saw it in daylight.

[Lovehound]

Originally Posted by elhelmete

I think I know what you're getting at and I somewhat agree. The housing stock in the SCV is by and large newer than the SFV on the whole, and while I won't say too much here I'll add that as a newer suburb, it (SCV) doesn't have some of the less desirable stuff the SFV has. And no I'm not talking about race...just the stuff that normally comes with older housing stock and a denser population. That's a big plus.

But...where one works is critical. I'll politely disagree that the I-5 project will make things demonstrably better for SCV commuters unless you work in the northern end of the SFV or Burbank. Then there's the 405...nuff said. If you're on the westside or SaMo or anywhere else south of say Sherman Way you have a big slog ahead of you every single day. My best SCV friend jokes that he'd probably love his home in Valencia if he ever saw it in daylight.

I can't disagree with that except that your friend probably sees his house on the weekend.

They are widening the 210 and fixing the I-5 Hollywood freeway exchange.

Too bad nobody with a brain considered what to do with 405/118 until the 405/5 confluence, and on to the 5/14 split.

In a year that will become the "get past" bottleneck.

[V8 Vega]

Shepherd of the Hills church in Porter Ranch is a super church.