What is Santee like? (San Diego, El Cajon: apartment, house, high school) - California (CA) - City-Data Forum

coldMNgal · 08-01-2011, 06:39 PM

I am looking into a job in Santee and wondering what that area is like. Someone had told me it is not a very good area, but I'd like more opinions. I know every town has good and bad areas.

moved · 08-01-2011, 07:18 PM

Santee is in East County, and it gets very hot, just like Lakeside. I don't know of much to do there, but there is a mall - Santee Town Square.

tickyul · 08-01-2011, 07:58 PM

My opinion is Santee is a breath of fresh air when compared to a lot of other "Scuzzy" areas in East San Diego....Like EL Cajon. It is clean and seems to be well planned. One of the things I like about the area is there are not a ton of bums and homeless people all over the place.

thealohaman · 08-01-2011, 08:40 PM

I live in Santee. I'd be surprised if you didn't like it. Might as well be close to where you work. Santee only has a couple of small areas, of apartment dwellings, that might be called "scuzzy". Otherwise, solidly middle class.

shmoov_groovzsd · 08-01-2011, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by thealohaman

I live in Santee. I'd be surprised if you didn't like it. Might as well be close to where you work. Santee only has a couple of small areas, of apartment dwellings, that might be called "scuzzy". Otherwise, solidly middle class.

coldMNgal,

I agree here with thealohaman. I have gone (still do) to Santee quite a bit and its improved (aesthetically) dramatically over the past 5 years. The Santee Towne Center really became the catalyst for improvement in that area.

IMHO its a solid middle class suburb, all the chain restaurants and shops along Mission Gorge Rd. I dont see any difference to Santee than just about every other middle class suburb I have been in, anywhere in the 48 contiguous. Is it polished like the coastal areas? No. But has everything you would need to get on with life and not pay and arm and a leg to live in.

As far as temps, its surrounded on just about all sides from natural terrain. The heat definitely gets trapped in there on hot days and almost feels magnified.

sdlife619 · 08-02-2011, 06:04 AM

Santee A.K.A Santucky....It's nothing special, typical suburbia, corporate chains businesses all over the place if that's what you like.

aquilifergroup · 10-01-2011, 11:35 AM

Its just like the nicer parts of lake elsinore. The heat in the summer wont be any different than what you're used to up there. Its' basically, a nice, solidly middle to upper middle class city that has its financial house in order. Most of the people here own their homes (well, the banks do, you know what I mean) and unlike the nearby city of El Cajon, where there are a lot of apartment buildings and renters, its a lot more polished and serene. It's quiet and if you want clubs and all that you can go to San Diego. For bringing up a familly its fine.

OptimusPrime69 · 10-01-2011, 08:52 PM

Isn't Santee the place where there was a school shooting?

was it santana high school?

aquilifergroup · 10-02-2011, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by OptimusPrime69

Isn't Santee the place where there was a school shooting?

was it santana high school?

Yes it was. The fact that it got so much publicity was because Santee is a quiet place where something lilke that is unexpected. Had that shooting happened in southeast san diego it would not have gotten so much airtime because people would just have assumed that it was just part of the scenery, just the locals doing their thing.