Best place to live? Hemet vs Beaumont vs Perris vs Lake elsinore (San Bernardino: sex offenders, crime)

[patrix542]

so Beaumont seems to be the best one from all of them. But how is Murrieta- Temecula? They recently launched a high quality street view fot these cities and i think they both look great! they are very my type
Also can anyone tell me how is Sun City or Menifee?

[that1guy]

Originally Posted by patrix542

so Beaumont seems to be the best one from all of them. But how is Murrieta- Temecula? They recently launched a high quality street view fot these cities and i think they both look great! they are very my type
Also can anyone tell me how is Sun City or Menifee?

Temecula is good. Too sterile for my taste. It's too suburban and too fabricated without a real sense of community. Same with Murrieta. Homogenous, tan, and ultra post modern in sterility and contrived spaces.

I'd rather pick a place with some more character. Menifee has slightly more character, but it's going to end up like the the other towns. Sun City is primarily retirement oriented.

[jodibird1]

I live in Menifee and like it quite a lot. It has less of the ....fabricated? feel than some surrounding communities. Quality schools and recreation options blend well with lower prices and diverse communities here. But if I were a young single it would be too tame.

[bouncethelight]

Originally Posted by patrix542

so Beaumont seems to be the best one from all of them.

Only 12 people have voted so far in the poll - which is way too small a sample to come to any kind of conclusion. Personally I didn't vote, because to me none of the four areas you listed is obviously best "overall" - but each could be considered best, depending on what you're looking for specifically - because they really are very different, with very different flaws and benefits.

Originally Posted by patrix542

But how is Murrieta- Temecula? They recently launched a high quality street view fot these cities and i think they both look great! they are very my type
Also can anyone tell me how is Sun City or Menifee?

If you expanded the poll to these three areas, I think you would find that Temecula or Murrietta would end up on top. Personally I've spent a lot more time in Temecula than in Murrieta, since I grew up in Northern San Diego County, just over the border - so that would be my choice. It has the cute little downtown area in Old Town, it has Macy's and Fish House Vera Cruz, it has the wine country and it butts up against del Luz and Rainbow. Plus Temecula has been around for over 100 years.

As for Sun City, technically it's a part of Menifee. Menifee became a city in 2008, and the area known as Sun City lies within it's borders. Sun City itself, is a planned community, built in 1960, for senior citizens who like to golf - the golf course winds throughout the city, and golf carts are seen all over, including on the streets. There's one big block right in the center, with two grocery stores, two drugstores, a post office, a library, and a bunch of little shops. That's downtown! If you're looking at Sun City proper, it's all little houses built in the 1960's and a mobile home park. More recently newer homes have been built on the other side of the freeway, and those homes used to identify with Sun City, but I suspect that now that the official name of the area is Menifee, the people that own those homes will begin calling Menifee home, rather than Sun City.

[dcashley]

Redlands and Yucaipa are the best places.

[KarlaT2]

A "none of the above" option would have been good on your poll.
I would second the Temecula/Murrietta instead. I really haven't been to Lake Elsinore enough to have an opinion either way, but the other 3 I don't care for as much. Mainly because school quality is high on my priority list, and all 4 of those I've not heard great things about.
There are some cute older homes with the nice rural feel around Temecula. Not all new cookie cutter homes.

[dcashley]

Originally Posted by patrix542

so Beaumont seems to be the best one from all of them. But how is Murrieta- Temecula? They recently launched a high quality street view fot these cities and i think they both look great! they are very my type
Also can anyone tell me how is Sun City or Menifee?

Sun City is old people--its primarily a retirement community.
Menifee is nice.
Redlands is nicer.
Temecula used to be good--but it lost all itsquaintness with the 2000-2006 buildig boom.
Redlans is nicer.

[that1guy]

Originally Posted by dcashley

Sun City is old people--its primarily a retirement community.
Menifee is nice.
Redlands is nicer.
Temecula used to be good--but it lost all itsquaintness with the 2000-2006 buildig boom.
Redlans is nicer.

Depends...

[Gandalara]

Sun City is a former census-designated place (CDP). Along with the neighboring communities of Quail Valley and Menifee (and portions of Romoland), it incorporated as the City of Menifee on October 1, 2008.

So it's NOT "Sun City is old people--its primarily a retirement community".

And even before it was incorporated, young skateboarders were all over the place.

[that1guy]

Originally Posted by Gandalara

Sun City is a former census-designated place (CDP). Along with the neighboring communities of Quail Valley and Menifee (and portions of Romoland), it incorporated as the City of Menifee on October 1, 2008.

So it's NOT "Sun City is old people--its primarily a retirement community".

And even before it was incorporated, young skateboarders were all over the place.

Hey, nothing wrong with "young skateboarders"....I was/am (I don't skate often, but sometimes I MIGHT if I'm drunk ENOUGH), but still productive to society.