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Old 10-15-2008, 05:08 PM
 
Location: East Side SD
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Alpine might be a good one. Only 12,000 people and very village look to it with pine trees too. not to far either.
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Old 04-24-2009, 05:56 PM
 
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
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Solana Beach is a very nice small town with a really nice shopping area called the Design District, a small music scene at the Belly Up, great food within walking distance and a small non-smoking beach. We have stayed at the Courtyard-Solana Beach. It is about 4 blocks from the Design District. Make sure you get a room in the back on the second floor; very quiet with a view of the ocean. The courtyard rooms are nice also. Parking is off-street, gated and secure, underneath the hotel. My wife and I have stayed there 3-4 times while visiting her brother who lives a few blocks away. (He has cats now and we are too allergic.)
I Agree, solana beach is a great place. It is north of Del Mar and south of Casrlsbad, on the pacific. Easily accesible from the highway, and has wonderful shopping and eating areas. It has schools, hospitals, everyting you wll be looking for, except for that small town feel. That is hardly possible in a growing place like San Diego.
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Old 04-24-2009, 06:17 PM
 
Location: San Diego, CA
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Julian would be my small town pick but it's like a hour drive from the city so getting to work would be a pain in the rear. Still, I like the country and having a few acres for horses & an apple orchard sounds good to me plus it is in the mountains so you get snow in the winter.
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Old 08-20-2012, 09:31 AM
 
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Julian is still the best small town in America to me. I moved from there in 2009 to Nebraska and then in 2010 to Oregon and I have been looking for a town like it ever since. It is one of the best places to live, anywhere.
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Old 08-20-2012, 10:57 AM
 
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well, everything really depends on where you will be working, unless you are coming here to retire. The places you listed are all very different in "feel".

Encinitas would definitely fit the criteria you listed...low in crime, great views (ocean and mountain), good restuarants, hospitals, a nice looking town center to do shopping (Target Center and Carlsbad Forum), but it is a coastal suburban area, very populated with lots of traffic. If you are looking for rural, then you will need to go further out to some of the places others have mentioned. But then you would be further away from the core services you seem to want.
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Old 08-20-2012, 03:28 PM
 
Location: Hookerville, formerly in Tweakerville
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Zombie thread.
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Old 08-20-2012, 03:28 PM
 
Location: California
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I can vouch for Fallbrook, AKA "The Friendly Village". Very small town feel and very community minded. It does not the have "spit and polish" look, but more quaint village type. Enough shopping to keep you busy, but we do venture out to some of the larger towns for shopping often enough. But as far as a commute.....not for the faint hearted, should you have to make the drive into SD during rush hour.
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