Review of Escondido, California

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Perfect weather, horrible schools.

- 9/26/2020
Escondido wins because of the weather, but has a lot of drawbacks. The schools are HORRIBLE. Like really bad. I've moved around a lot and the schools are the worst I've ever seen. There are a lot of beautiful homes and the proximity to San Diego is close. The homeless population is extremely high. While I wish we could do something to help house them, the government has not and so they build camps all around our community. My son took a walk and saw needles and other paraphernalia that spanned about a square mile with tents. The city does nothing to clear the area. We've been robbed by residents of this camp (we have it on the camera and have seen the same people go into the camp and I even called the police department saying "I'm staring at our robbers" and they didn't come. There's theft everywhere but when you have your robber on camera and also see them walking down the street and can't get the cops to come I would say Escondido has some work to do. I think it's easy to rate any city in Southern California 5 stars because it's all beautiful and weather is perfect, but when you really get into the cracks and crevices there's more going on.
Michele | San Diego, CA