What happened to Paradise Hills?

[Prairieman]

I agree with revelated that the Eastlake area may well decline a bit with age, and become the South Bay equivalent of Santee. However, Eastlake's general proximity to the metro area, as well as infrastructure enhancements like the recently-opened tollway, should prevent it from slipping further to the level of Paradise Hills.

On the other hand, far-flung exurbs like Hemet are currently being hit by a double whammy of high fuel prices and the mortgage meltdown. Such an area could become the next Paradise Hills. Or worse.

[619frenchman]

Paradise Hills a ghetto... calm down people. I'm white (actually half Lebanese and half French) and I moved to SD in 2001. The area I first moved into was Paradise Hills, off Woodman St. between the Ralph's and the McDonald's. This area is anything but hood. The houses are nice and it feels like a cool suburb. Yes, there are a lot of black folks (oh no, I forgot that to white people that immediately makes it a ghetto) but most families are made up of hardworking people. I had a beautiful motorcycle that I parked outside, uncovered in my apartments (with half of the units section 8) and I never had a problem. I lived there for over a year, and no problems at all except for the stink of the Phillipino neighbors dirty sundried fish cooking (that should be illegal!). All the neighborhood folk were cool with me, very nice and caused no problems. If anything, the Phillipinos were the only ones who really tried to act like gangsters (a few of them moved into the apartments, but they're all a joke).

Anyways, I then moved to PB and then Linda Vista. PB was crap, full of drunk fratboys getting in fights, and people even smoked crack in my alley (one block east of Grand ave, onthe crossroad of Gresham). So I left dirty PB, and Linda Vista is **** too. Here it is a hell of a lot worse and getting worse by the day. People are shot often around my hood now, and I'm supposedly in a better part of town. Linda Vista's got much more run-down apartments, and I long for the quiet of PH. And comparatively to both, Eastlake is a rich suburb! Stop with your stupid accusations of places like Eastlake and PH being hood, that's ridiculous (laughable when it comes to Eastlake). Damn people, don't listen to others so much, form an opinion for yourself. As for me, Iwould much rather live in PH than PB or Linda Vista...

[hitman619]

Originally Posted by Sassberto

The early 90's housing bust happened. At the time, PH was the exurbs. Today it's Chula Vista. The houses get foreclosed, become section 8, and you end up with the "suburban ghetto".

Notice how inner-city neighborhoods are getting rehabbed while places like PH get worse?

Yea i know this post is 4 years old,but as usually Sass is right on the money.
So Many people ran from PH in the 90's to Eastlake.

[JohnSoCal]

Originally Posted by Sassberto

I think this time around the real problems will be in the far-flung exurbs like Murietta or Hemet or San Jacinto moreso than Oceanside or Chula Vista. But I think you are smart to be concerned, just keep an eye out. This time around it's more flippers and specu-vesters in trouble than regular family homeowners, at least we hope.

There is no comparison between Hemet/San Jacinto and Murrieta. Murrieta is doing just fine. House prices are going up now. Unlike many bedroom communities, there are many people living in Temecula/Murrieta because they want to and not just because of cheaper housing. There are many very expensive ( $ Million+ ) huge homes in Murrieta. We lived in San Diego for 20 years but moved to Murrieta 10 years ago because we like it, not because we had to. Of course we don't commute anywhere so traffic is not a problem for us.