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Trying To Decide Where To Live After You Retire?
Our Towns and Cities Located Near The Coast Offer a
Near-Perfect Year-round Climate that is influenced both by
cool coastal breezes and warm inland sunshine.
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Explore North San Diego County's Towns & CitiesLOCATED NEAR THE COAST
Our Near-Coast Cities
Include:
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Explore Our
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OVERVIEW
Location-
Our Near-Coast towns and cities lie inland, 3 to 17 miles from the Pacific
coast. They are close to everything; an easy drive to North County's
COASTAL
and
INLAND
Towns and Cities, to downtown San Diego and
to rest of California via the I-5 and I-15 north - south corridors.
Climate-
Terrain-
On top of all this, there are tons of additional
Things to Do
in neighboring areas and in nearby San Diego. Please see our
Directory of Activities and Resources for North
County Retirees.
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CONSIDER VISTA FOR YOUR RETIREMENT DESTINATION- If you are looking for a fine community that offers a wonderful climate and home choices that fit nearly any retirement lifestyle. Vista Description-
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Vista is located 6 to 12 miles inland from the coast.
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A good description of this progressive city is
that
Vista = Variety:
A variety of old and new communities, a variety of flat and hilly terrain,
a wide variety home styles on a variety of sizes and shapes of lots and
a variety of homes with great views.
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Home Selections include
Seven Age 55+ Mobile Home Parks
and many
all-age mobile home parks, condos, upscale suburban communities
and elegant country estates.
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Vista also has agricultural areas where more than 500 growers operate greenhouses and small farms.
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Vista is an interesting and fun place to live that also offers
many nearby activities for retirees. It is the home of the highly-rated
Moonlight Amphitheatre,
the nearly new
Krikorian MetroPlex
movie theater and the great
Wave Waterpark
for children and young adults.
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Vista was Rate 8th best place in the U.S. to raise your family by the book
50 Fabulous Places to Raise Your Family
and it was the home of the second-place winner of the Little League World Series in 2005.
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Vista also offers a variety of fine restaurants, several nearby shopping malls and an excellent
Senior Center
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Nearby
Tri-City
and
Palomar Medical Centers
offer choices of full-service medical care.
Vista Facts-
POPULATION: 94,500
% AGE 55+: Approximately 15.5% (Estimate)
AREA: 18.7 Sq. Mi.
POP. DENSITY (Persons/Sq. Mi.): 5053
PROPERTY CRIME RATE (% of US avg.): 81%
VIOLENT CRIME RATE (% of US avg.):
109%
Vista Related Links-
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Please
If you are interested in
purchasing a home,
Patty Anderson
will team-up with you in person, by telephone and by Email to create a list
of homes in the Vista area that best fit your personal requirements and then
show them to you when you are available. Patty is a licensed real estate agent
with SRES (Seniors Real Estate Specialist) credentials who is with Prudential California Realty of
Carlsbad, CA. She has extensive Real Estate sales experience in selling all types of homes
throughout the North San Diego County area. She can help you locate
the community and home that best satisfies your personal needs and desires.
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SAN MARCOS |
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EXPLORE THE SAN MARCOS COMMUNITIES- A very popular retirement place because of its reasonable cost of living, excellent climate, low crime rates and comfortable lifestyle. San Marcos Description- ∙ The incorporated city of San Marcos consists of 3 communities: San Marcos, Lake San Marcos and newer San Elijo Hills. They are located 6 to 13 miles inland from the coast. ∙ San Marcos is a modern, vibrant city with a Crime Rate well below the U.S. average. The city has a total of 12 city parks and 38 miles (soon to be 72 miles) of interlinked walking trails. Its parks include 4 Dog Parks. It also has an activity-filled community center; a gymnasium, neighborhood recreation centers, the Jack’s Pond Nature Center; and the excellent San Marcos Senior Center. For more information, read Ten Reasons to Live in San Marcos. ∙ In addition to its many fine all-age communities, San Marcos offers a wide choice of active (Age 55+) retirement communities that include 14 excellent, affordable Senior Mobile/Manufactured Home Parks and the Las Brisas Pacificas Senior Community. ∙ San Elijo Hills is a fairly new ocean and canyon-view community that has gained many prestigious awards in the homebuilding/development industry. Although a wonderful place it live, it unfortunately, does not have any age 55+ Senior Community sections. ∙ Lake San Marcos is a neat and tidy, upscale town of approximately 4200 residents of all ages. Its main attractions are its village-like ambience, beautiful 80 acre lake and the amenities of a year-around resort. It is a great place to live and a popular place to retire, partially because many of its houses and condominiums are one-story designs that were originally designed for use as senior community housing. ∙ San Marcos is the city where many of North San Diego County's residents go to dine out with over 170 high quality, low and moderately-priced restaurants including those at the very popular Old California Restaurant Row, "North Counties Premiere Destination For Great Food and Great Entertainment."
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San Marcos has large variety of local shopping opportunities
including its new Grand Plaza and and nearly new Creekside
Market Place shopping centers. It also has local Costco, Walmart,
and Fry's Electronics stores plus a huge selection of additional
stores that supply most of life's necessities. Being centrally located,
it also is close to other excellent North County Shopping centers. A San Marcos City Certified
Outdoor Farmers Market is open on Wednesdays 3 - 7 PM in a San Marcos State U parking lot on
Craven St.
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San Marcos, "The Educational Heart of North San Diego County"
is the home of
Palomar Community College
with its many free courses and of
Cal State University @ San Marcos.
∙ In addition to San Marcos'
Edwards Stadium 18 movie theater, the city sponsors the
Theater West
youth theater. It also has 3 local golf courses and two new shopping
centers. A short drive away, you will find many of North San Diego
County's other amenities and activities including the coast, excellent
shopping centers, highly rated golf courses and excellent live theaters
including the
Escondido Performing Arts Center.
∙ A
Kaiser Permanente
Outpatient Medical Center, located within the city and the nearby
Palomar Pomerado Health
and
Tri-City Medical
centers offer a choice of excellent medical care. The
San Marcos Community Health Center
offers lower cost medical care
for those with little or no health insurance.
San Marcos Facts-
POPULATION: 83,149
AGE 55+: 16.7% (Estimate)
AREA: 23.8 Sq. Mi.
POP. DENSITY (Persons/Sq. Mi.): 3,494
PROPERTY CRIME RATE (% of US avg.): 58%
VIOLENT CRIME RATE (% of US avg.): 64%
San Marcos Related Links-
San Elijo
Hills Community Website
Click-on
To Learn More, Check out >>
Please
If you are interested in
purchasing a home,
Patty Anderson
will team-up with you in person, by telephone and by Email to create a list
of homes in the San Marcos area that best fit your personal requirements and then
show them to you when you are available. Patty is a licensed real estate agent
with SRES (Seniors Real Estate Specialist) credentials who is with Prudential California Realty of
Carlsbad, CA. She has extensive Real Estate sales experience of all types of homes
throughout the North San Diego County area. She can help you
locate the community and home that best satisfies your personal needs and desires.
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EXPLORE RETIRING TO RANCHO SANTA FE- If you can afford the ultimate in luxurious country living. Rancho Santa Fe is the "best of the best" locations in San Diego County. Rancho Santa Fe Description- ∙ Rancho Santa Fe is located 3.5 to 6 miles from the coast and therefore has a nearly ideal year-round climate with approximately 320 days of sunshine per year. ∙ This sophisticated rural community is rated by many as the #1 place to live in the United States. It is also rated as the wealthiest community with more than 1,000 households in the U.S. and the second most expensive ZIP code in the U.S. ∙ It is "picture perfect" with rolling hills and lushly-landscaped, elegant, gated-estates and is a true horse lover's paradise with serious competitors in all disciplines. Rancho Santa Fe has strict design restrictions; very few homes are visible from the road. ∙ Rancho Santa Fe also has a small village, six exclusive private golf clubs, polo fields and 26 miles of equestrian riding trials. ∙ Nearby Encinitas, Del Mar, La Jolla and San Diego provide diverse options for shopping, dining, cultural events and entertainment. ∙ Scripps Green Hospital and various other nearby San Diego medical centers offer a choice of excellent medical care. ∙ Rancho Santa Fe does not have any Senior Communities, but it does offer a wide variety of luxurious Home Selections for people of all-ages. Rancho Santa Fe Facts-
POPULATION: Approximately 4,000
% AGE 55+: Approximately 20%
AREA: 6.8 Sq. Mi.
POP. DENSITY (Persons/Sq. Mi.): Approximately 588
CRIME RATE (% of US avg.): No data
Rancho Santa Fe Related Links-
The Bridges Community
To Learn More, Check out >>
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Please
If you are interested in
learning more about Rancho Santa Fe homes,
Patty Anderson
will team-up with you in person, by telephone and by Email to create a list
of homes in the Rancho Santa Fe area that best fit your personal requirements and then
show them to you when you are available. Patty is a licensed real estate agent
with Prudential California Realty of
Carlsbad, CA. She has extensive Real Estate sales experience of all types of homes
throughout the North San Diego County area. She can help you
locate the community and home that best satisfies your personal needs and desires.
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