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| Air Pollution - 10/12/2010
Vista is not a healthy environment. With the building of two energy plants in Escondido in addition to the Carlsbad plant which blows its pollution east to Vista, plus the growth of the Carlsbad airport, and the horrendous traffic on the 5 and 78 freeways, pollution has grown immensely. Many people feel fatigued, suffer brain fog, etc. If you're sensitive to chemicals, this is NOT the place for you. All the advantages are negated by the chemical-filled skies which show up as a red or a violent-blue color well into the night. I plan to move!
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| Don't Move Here! - 10/6/2010
Vista, Ca is located just north of San Diego between Oceanside and Escondido. Vista is part of a massive metropolitan area. People, people, people everywhere! ...and let's now even talk about traffic. No Seasons! COST OF LIVING OUT OF THIS WORLD! All my husband and I do is work, work, work to survive. Before the recession hit our house was worth $675,000, now $390,000. We lost all our equity as did most people here.....and the best of all...........Gang activity...it's big here. [read more...]
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| paradise lost! - 8/7/2010
that last review sounds a bit dramatic to say the least. I live in vista and its the best place to live in california due to the perfect climate, 10 minute trip to the beach, and the quiet atmosphere. I bought a house just over 2 years ago and i couldn't be happier with it! It only cost me 200,000 for a beautiful 1929 spanish revival thanks to the housing crash! The climate is absolutely priceless! I love watching the news in the morning and seeing how the country is baking or freezing and here in vista it is almost always 75 degrees! I love it! My wife said it best: "This is a vacation location". [read more...]
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| Vista Cllimate - 7/11/2010
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| Paradise lost - 2/8/2009
Half of Vista is clean and well-maintained. Not where I live. Where I live, the older part of Vista, the neighborhood used to be pleasant, filled with hard working, middle class people raising families. Not anymore. A group of people who felt they "deserved" the American dream of home ownership "bought" houses that were designed to house maybe 5 people but instead housed 25. They were encouraged to do so by greedy, immoral real estate agents. They brought with them garbage, abandoned cars, loud parties which included shootings, roosters (this is not a rural area anymore), gangs, graffiti, lack of of respect for others and the property they so badly wanted. Now the neighborhood is filled with foreclosed-upon vacant, vandalized houses that no human being would want to live in and those of us who actually work, maintained our property, paid our mortgages and property taxes are trapped here. I think real estate agents are the lowest life forms on earth and they certainly proved themselves to be so when they sold the houses of the greedy worms that owned them to people (?) who did not deserve or earn them.[read more...]
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| comfort index ??? - 5/17/2008
I don't know your formula for comfort index but it sure isn't accurate for humans.
We have lived in 4 different states/locations.
Zip code 92084 which you gave a comfort index= 43. I would give it about 90.
Zip code 07728 which you gave a comfort index= 48. I would give it about 40.
Zip code 33458 which you gave 27. I would also give it about 25.
Zip code 04332 which you gave 59. I would give it about 10.
My formula is based on living there for a number of years. Maybe you could look at your formula and see if it needs some adjusting.
We like your site very much.
Keep up the good work
Jim Foster
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| Vista, CA climate - 12/6/2007
Vista is 40 miles north of San Diego and 9 miles from the coast.
IMO, the weather is ideal. Its far enough from coast that you get alot of sunshine, but close enough to stay cool in the summer.[read more...]
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| Bill Gates certainly had a reason... - 10/20/2007
... why he named Microsoft's new operating system after the city with the best climate in the world!!!
Where else can you drive a few miles to beach, ocean and palm trees and go surfing in the morning, then drive a couple of miles East and enjoy your breakfast with fresh eggs and home-made ham on a quaint little farm surrounded by juicy green meadows with cattle, get back in your car to sweat at lunch in a small burger joint in a deserted town in the dessert at a 100 degrees, and drive 2 more hours to ski in the snowy mountains in the afternoon?!?!?!?
Vista has the PERFECT climate, not too close to the shore where it's so many days just foggy and overcast, and still West from the cities with dessert climate, where you need A/C most of the year.
Best place on earth!!! And definitely best price-value relation in North County San Diego (don't tell anybody...)[read more...]
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| Price is not what it's worth - 5/10/2007
While the housing is cheaper than elsewhere in North County San Diego, the cost is not worth the trash you have to live around.[read more...]
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| Vista, Close to Everything - 4/28/2007
The weather in Vista is beautiful. You are minutes from the beach. Want to ski or hike in the mountains, just drive a few hours and you are there. Like the desert? It's a short drive away as well. Disneyland your thing? It's just an hour up the freeway. It's a great place to live, provided you have the money to live comfortably here.
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| Good place - 9/26/2006
Good place to live, Temperatures are a little warmer than coastal areas and neighborhoods are a little more middle to lower class.[read more...]
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| Oh and I forgot the worst thing about this place.. - 7/18/2006
Because of the nice climate there are the worlds biggest spiders here and they love to make webs in your doorway and hang from trees so that if you are not paying attention you will walk right into them! It is enough for me to want to leave based just on that as I am a arachnaphobiac and this is NOT helping!! They are bigger, hairier and different colors than anywhere else that I have seen and it has become a real issue for me! So if you are like me with spiders DO not move here! Of course it is worse in JUNE-Aug. I would love it if Sperling would do a study on the best places to go that are bug free! I will move there![read more...]
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| We love it in Vista (San Diego) but might have to - 6/22/2006
My husband and I have always dreamed of living in CA. When we came out here over 5 years ago to visit relatives in La Jolla we fell in love with San Diego and vowed to move out here once we got married. Well, we did it (our family thought we were crazy)but we were so excited because both of us grew up in MN and did not care and were risk takers. Well, we did not have jobs and it took us much longer than expected to find work and now that we found it we both dislike our jobs and are amazed at how little the pay is compared to the cost of living and how few jobs there are. We are still renting a 1 bedroom apartment (paying $1, 030 and it is not that nice) after being here almost 4 years and no hope of buying a house anytime soon. We love it here but cannot afford to keep living like this. We want to start a family and cannot do that here, not too mention you would have to do private school here as the public seems questionable. People are o.k. but self centered mostly. We do not know where to go next as we do NOT want to go back to MN even though all of our family is there and will get lot's of "told you so's". We also have not found a good church here they are scarce, the closest one we like and is similiar to what we were used to back home is Rick Warren's church in Lake Forest a 55 min drive! There are deffinitley three class of people here, poor (we fall in that catagory even though we make over 60,000 combined) middle class that bought homes here over five years ago when they were still affordable and the very rich. It is very frustrating also we thought it would be greener and more lush here than it is. It is mostly brown and actually not that sunny if near the ocean. We thought it would be more tropical too and you could swim all year in clear blue water but the water is merky and not warm so it's a bummer in a way. The perks are, family loves to come (when they can afford it) and there is always something to do but at what cost? Luckily we both live close to our jobs but most have to comutte in terrible traffic. Good luck to anyone else who tried you MUST make over 100, 000 to make it.[read more...]
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