If you could live in one area in San Diego, where would it be? (Corona: new house, neighborhoods)

[chicanoflo3]

Southeast San Diego area, preferbly around Valencia Park neighborhood because its where I grew up and its home sweet home to me.

[castof1]

Originally Posted by shannon94

Hey Sassberto.....your first choice...my parents live there....fourth choice....my in-laws!! lol When they pass on I'll give ya a good deal!! That's one of the main things I miss about SD...the spanish style home!! I thought they would have them in Texas.....but no...they don't.

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Now I grew up in Irving Texas, North side of town near the Las Colinas area and there is nothing there except Spanish style homes. My parents still live there in a BIG one. You must be looking in the wrong neighborhood.

As for me I live in Rancho Bernardo right now but I am thinking about Solana Beach area.

[shannon94]

Really?? Wow...I've been through the Irving area and never saw any....hubby even use to work in Las Colinas. I've see some architecture that looks kind of "spanish" but nothing that looks like the white stucco ....tile roof....ect. that you see in Cali. I guess I missed them.

[bigdaddy5]

Scripps Ranch, easy access from all directions, fully developed, low crime, great schools and not too snobby.

Sadly, I'll have to move out of here to the OC. Looking for an OC clone of Scripps Ranch.

bd5

[castof1]

Originally Posted by shannon94

Really?? Wow...I've been through the Irving area and never saw any....hubby even use to work in Las Colinas. I've see some architecture that looks kind of "spanish" but nothing that looks like the white stucco ....tile roof....ect. that you see in Cali. I guess I missed them.

My bad. You are talking about Spainish Colonial which is the smooth white stucco and cast tile roofs. Your right, almost never see them in Texas or at least not the Dallas Fort Worth area. You will find them in Austin and San Antonio areas but not many around DFW. I was thinking of the Old World Spanish style, ranch style, mostly red clay brick and cut or puzzled together stone walls.

[WestCoastDiva]

Del Mar for me!!!!!

[WestCoastDiva]

Oops! That's not really San Diego, but Del Mar anyway!!

[socketz]

Not to hijack the thread, but I see the West Coast Spainish style homes coming out here slowly in the form of high end custom homes. I live in the Willow Bend area of Plano and some of the 1mill+ homes here would not look out of place sitting on the cliffs of Corona Del Mar in OC.

As for the best place in San Diego, I'd have to say out near the sub base in Point Loma. In fact, if we could move that sub base, I'd build a home right there. City lights, Bay view....walk across the street and see the ocean view. getting in/out of there is not fun, but man is that some pretty topography. Stays pretty cold there because it is surrounded by water....but other than that.

[shannon94]

Originally Posted by socketz

Not to hijack the thread, but I see the West Coast Spainish style homes coming out here slowly in the form of high end custom homes. I live in the Willow Bend area of Plano and some of the 1mill+ homes here would not look out of place sitting on the cliffs of Corona Del Mar in OC.

As for the best place in San Diego, I'd have to say out near the sub base in Point Loma. In fact, if we could move that sub base, I'd build a home right there. City lights, Bay view....walk across the street and see the ocean view. getting in/out of there is not fun, but man is that some pretty topography. Stays pretty cold there because it is surrounded by water....but other than that.

I know what your talking about Sockets...(spanish homes) I've seen those. I'm more a fan of the 1920's style spanish home.....not so much the new construction. Before I moved out here I thought we would see ALOT due to the heat in Texas. I wonder how well the tile roof would hold up in a hail storm though??? lol

[socketz]

Originally Posted by shannon94

I wonder how well the tile roof would hold up in a hail storm though??? lol

I think that type of roof cost about 20k to replace (had some friends with shake in poway that looked into after the big fire and that's what they told me, of course they decided not to).

You'd replace a few out here in Texas, so your insurance would be costly. Wouldn't make sense to use something that fragile. Also, think about the winds we get (and god forbid tornadoes), those clay shingles would become projectiles.

With that said, they use them on the car ports where I live. In fact, the weight is so great that recently a moving truck bumped into one and knocked the entire carport over on a couple of cars under it.....luckily no one was hurt, but the Honda Accord that was under there was literaly flattened by the weight of the car port falling down on it.

Out here, they rely more on insulation and tight building paractices for energy efficiency.

In fact, on the home I'm buying they are using Radiant Barrier, R38 with a net then a spray filler that covers all that.....it's intense how precise the insulation is.....in CA, it looked like I laid my insulation in the attic (looked like someone stood in the access port and threw it up there).

Building standards are much higher out here. Of course they have to be.