Top 10 Suburbs and Bottom 10 Suburbs? (San Diego, Chula Vista: condos, neighborhood, middle school)

[Milwaukee City]

Thanks Great Post!

[ranzchic]

Subjective top 10 lists are subjective.

[TristramShandy]

Originally Posted by loveautumn

I can't agree that Mission Beach, Ocean Beach and Pacific Beach are prestigious suburbs to live in. You could add Rancho Santa Fe, Olivenhain, maybe Mission Hills.

Northern Pacific Beach is very nice (bordering La Jolla) - - I'd think the Bird Rock/Northern Pacific Beach would certainly be presigious. Parts of Crown Point are great as well. Get a few streets above Garnett and the stereotyped PB goes away.

[Encinitan]

Olivenhain is part of Encinitas, so we're covered there. I tend to sort of agree generally with the list.

[Milwaukee City]

I forgot Escondido, where would you put them?

[loveautumn]

In your original post, you asekd for "prestigious" suburbs....so there may be others that are very nice, family oriented, etc. but would not be considered prestigious , which are going to be the wealthier suburbs.

[Sassberto]

I don't consider PB, OB, Mission Beach, Poway or really even Encinitas or Carlsbad to be "prestigious', although there are certainly very nice areas in all of them.

The true "prestige" addresses in San Diego County are usually somewhere in:
- Coronado
- Mission Hills
- Point Loma
- La Jolla
- Del Mar
- Rancho Santa Fe / Fairbanks / etc...
- Olivenhain
- La Costa area
- less-known and scattered inland estate home developments i.e. Bonsall, Jamul, etc..

While there are certainly very nice neighborhoods in Encinitas or Solana Beach or parts of PB they are not usually places most people would consider "prestigious", excepting the house on a bluff or oceanfront property.

[AFTERSHOCK]

I have a question; they say every town has good areas and bad areas, so are there any bad/ghetto parts of Encinitas or Solana Beach? I want to live in one of those two cities but can't afford it, so I was thinking I could afford it if I chose the bad area (people who can't afford the La Mesa lifestyle might choose the cheaper, run down spots on the west side so I was thinking along those lines in Encinitas or Solana Beach). And if there aren't any bad areas there, then that shoots the whole "every city has nice areas and not nice areas" all to hell.

[Sassberto]

I don't think Encinitas has any bad areas, but Leucadia just to the north certainly has some run down properties and a couple of trailer parks. Not unsafe by any means. Solana Beach and Carlsbad both have small but longtime barrios.

[rsproule]

[SIZE=3]I would rank the 10 neighborhoods "percieved" as the most prestigious as follows:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]1.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]La Jolla[/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]2.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Coronado[/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]3.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Rancho Santa Fe[/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]4.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Del Mar[/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]5.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Solana Beach[/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]6.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Olivenhain (rural Encinitas)[/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]7.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Downtown (high rises)[/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]8.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Cardiff (Southern Encinitas)[/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]9.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Encinitas[/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]10.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Poway[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3]If you ranked the neighborhoods by median price per square foot the order would be different. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]If you then ranked by median sale price you would again get a different order, since there is lot's of 5,000+ square foot homes in RSF and Poway.[/SIZE]