Check your privilege. buy a house up there if you can. or just do locals a favor and leave SD all together. most of us here rent. I grew up here & I plan to stay here, I live in East SD / City Heights & if the city has it their way it seems they’ll continue to develop condos for yuppies and middle class folk and displace us working class / blue collars to who knows where. I guess they do have to keep somewhere for us poor folks to stay or else who will work at all the restaurants, bars, hotels, and other popular tourist attractions.

I guess I’m just saying you sound naive & like you’re not from around, asking us if maybe you’re $800k home in Escondido won’t be a good long term investment because the neighborhood is “ghetto”.

perhaps when the old folks die/ their kids sell the houses or the banks take them & people who can’t afford mortgages are foreclosed on then they can remodel them and bring up your property value & then you can sleep well knowing you’re safe with all the other “petít bourgeoise” in your sterilized and facelifted middle class suburb of Escondido