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Old 04-14-2009, 08:34 PM
 
Location: VT
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I want to move to San Diego but everywhere there is so expensive. i still want to live in san diego county though, is oceanside any cheaper? In ocean beach, pacific beach, mission bay, and north park i found lots of apartments most right around 1,000 bucks a month. moving there without a job, i do not want to take on a place with that much of a payment. I dont need something fancy just a place to live where i have a small chance of getting jumped. Can you find a place in oceanside for 500 or 600 a month? or is everything up there just as high as the rest of them?
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Old 04-14-2009, 08:58 PM
 
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Oceanside is just a suburban city of San Diego. It also has some very sketchy areas. There is nowhere in Southern California you will be able to find an apartment in a decent area for 500 bucks. That ship has sailed.
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Old 04-14-2009, 09:30 PM
 
Location: Encinitas
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Maybe a room to rent in a house for that price, but I agree, if you find an apartment anywhere in San Diego County for $500 a month, you better pack a flack jacket.
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Old 04-15-2009, 06:30 PM
 
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I've lived in Hillcrest, Banker's Hill, and Rolando in San Diego and by downtown and the beach and now off of College and Mesa in Oceanside. There are sketchy areas in both San Diego and Oceanside. There are sketchy areas in most cities. So what? They are pretty easy to spot and pretty easy to avoid if they worry you.

Oceanside has been tarnished by snobs who don't live here. Where I now live off of College and Mesa it's completely mellow. I left my front door wide open for three hours the other weekend (got distracted by a crying preschooler on the way out the door) and nothing was disturbed. In my boring little neighborhood someone who doesn't belong or is up to no good would be spotted right away.

We moved where we are now to get the best bang for our housing buck. The same house ten minutes away in Carlsbad would have cost $50,000 to $60,000 more at the time (the peak of the boom) and we just couldn't justify scraping to just barely get by in a 1970s tract home that needs all kinds of work just because it has a Carlsbad address. So we bought an almost new tract home in Oceanside in perfect condition in a nice, quiet neighborhood for much less money.

Almost everything in SoCal is a tract home anyway.
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Old 04-18-2009, 04:20 PM
 
Location: Oceanside, CA
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Oceanside has been tarnished by snobs who don't live here.
Well said!
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Old 04-19-2009, 01:34 AM
 
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Oceanside has been tarnished by snobs who don't live here.
I agree with Yvonne that this is well said and pretty much sums it up.
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Old 04-19-2009, 02:05 AM
 
Location: San Diego A.K.A "D.A.Y.G.O City"
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I haven't been to O side in a long time, but how has it changed? I mean I remember when there downtown was pretty run down, but recently I heard it's gotten fixed up. I actually loved downtown O side the last time I was there, it's pretty chill.

What has happened to San Diego? I mean seriously it's like just within the last 5 or 10 years gentrification has hit just about every inner city neighborhood of SD and other local cities. It's really starting to get on my nerves, because these snobs from elsewhere move in, change things up, try to be all "hip" and "cool" because there in the city, they drive up the cost of housing and make it so damn expensive, while the minorities and average San Diegan's are forced out into the suburbs or out of the city altogether.

This also leads to massive condo conversions that hit renters hard.

Whatever happened to the regular Joe's? We only have snobs and stuck ups now days, that act like there **** don't stink.
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Old 04-19-2009, 04:18 PM
 
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I recomend getting into a roomante situation for that much. GL!
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Old 04-21-2012, 08:58 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia
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The weather in Oceanside sucks. But it is more diverse and liberal than San Diego.
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Old 04-21-2012, 10:59 PM
 
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The weather in Oceanside sucks. But it is more diverse and liberal than San Diego.
Totally disagree. Parts of oceanside have PERFECT weather. It really depends on where you live. It stretches pretty far inland.

Oceanside is much less diverse than the city of San Diego and it is more conservative as well.
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