how about zipcode 92117

[Sassberto]

Originally Posted by RND

1)Mediocre schools, esp the high schools (a fair amount of gang activity at all of the area high schools: Kearney, Madison, Clairemont, Mission Bay and even University City).
2)Most of the homes are mid century rectangular stucco boxes.
3)TONS of apartment communities, many of which are low income. (The most famous ones of my youth, "the blue roofs" behind Mervyn's, are right in the Mt. St area)
4)The shopping centers are old.
5)The main streets (Clairemont Dr., Balboa Ave, Clmt Mesa Dr and Genesee Ave) and many others (Mt Acadia, Ashford, Charger, Moraga) are SUPER busy.
6)A good sized homeless population
7)A fair amount drugs/crime.

It's not a ghetto, not top notch. Just mediocre.

You can say this about a lot of areas in San Diego - and not all of the things on your list are really bad. I would say that the schools and the low-income rentals are a city-wide problem, not a Clairemont problem. Things like old houses and older shopping centers are not necessarily a bad thing to everyone.

[RND]

Originally Posted by RD5050

I re-pasted the link to the post here:

http://www.city-data.com/forum/2850260-post2.html

Mmm-hmmm, I am well aware of all of those factors. Like I said I now live in TX, in the greater Austin area. Dollar for Dollar, we are living a San Diego millionaire lifestyle on a middle class income. (I'm an RN, my husband in sales) We have a brand new beautiful house in a top-ranked school district in a great suburb of the Music Capitol of the World. Our area compares to Carmel Valley. That was not possible for us in SD.

I am aware that people have different tastes, but I really don't think that any of you can make the argument that Clairemont is any better than average. I didn't want to work my butt off my whole life to just settle for average. Different strokes for different folks. Our whole family is still there, so we get in about 3 weeks worth of beach time each summer anyway (about as much as we got when we lived there, since we both had to work full-time).