>> >>: First to check on trafficÊ >> >>: You head south in the morning, north
in the afternoon.
The landscape is I 15 and its exit signs which mark the time it takes you to get from San
Diego or home to temmic yl uh.
The one way commute takes a at least an hour.
>> >>: I may lis toon sports talk radio, KOGO, PANDORA, or sometimes I'm making business
phone calls on my blue tooth of course.
>> >>: When you work in San Diego, the price of living in Temecula is the long commute.
The pay back is decent schools and houses like these.
Several thousands of square foot homes you can biet buy for literally hundreds of thousands
of dollars less than in San Diego.
>> >>: My wife made the decision.
She felt that the neighborhoods up here would good neighborhoods and it was an opportunity
to expand on the size of our home.
>> >>: He now liveswith his family of five in a house that's 3800 square feet for which
he paid little over $500,000.
He thinks the same home in San Diego county would have been at least 300,000 dollars more.
>> >>: Let's say you want to whriive in San Diego, and you wanted to live in north east
San Diego countyÊ >> >>: Russ, CEO market point reelty advisers,
says the home price that has driven San Diego workers to live in Riverside county is still
a huge motivation.
>> >>: If you looked at that area combined in San Diego county, you're going to pay well
over 500 and some odd thousand dollars for a new homement if you go into west Riverside
county, you can buy the same home for the mid 200,000s.
>> >>: The forces that have made the communeÊ change.
, the high cost of gas is substantially reduced the affordability of the comeup commute, and
then there's the effort to actually keep workers in temmic yl uh.
Morris miers runs the economic development group that serves the area.
He says about 68% of the meepal in the region commute elsewhere to works the vast majority
heading south to San Diego.
He says it's in the interest of everyone to reduce the traffic on the I 15 by creating
jobs in south Riverside county.
>> >>: We're not trying to take people from San Diego county and bring them to Riverside,
but to have them when they grow, when they need satellite companies, satellite locations
and things like that, to think in terms of moving up here, so their employeeses up here
wouldn't necessarily have to commute.
>> >>: The part of the work force that stays in town working 9 to 5, may work here.
Jobs follow roof tops and the longer tem ek Temecula has a strong resident work force,
the more likely it is teut too stawt being a bedroom community.
Some Temecula residents talk about having homes so large there are rooms they don't
use.
Others add up oon the time they spend on the road that they don't with their families.
That's made an im prugz pregz on younger people.
>> >>: When you start looking at the echo boomers, they're the ones whose parents commuted.
They saw the sacrifices parents made in terms och family time, how much wear and tear it
was on mom or dad or mom and dad the commute distances to work.
I don't think they're going to be as willing to do it.
>> >>: One family whose stil story illustrates that is the co burns, they moved to HEMET
just east of Temecula, husband's construction planning job moved him there.
When the housing bust arrived, Roger's job disappeared and he ended up doing something,
the longer commute to L.A.
>> >>: We didn't get to see him much, and when we did, he was tired.
It got to be school conferences, I had to do on my own, sports, I had to do all on my
own.
And it really got to be hard on the family.
>> >>: Roger eventually found a job in San Diego, so the coburns left their 2500 square
foot house and moved back to the 1,000 square foot house they still owned in university
heights.
>> >>: Roger had to give up his garage which was a really big deal.
>> >>: But now he has a five minute commute to work.
>> >>: What a difference to be able to come home at lunch, eat, maybe turn on the news
and watch for a few minutes, versus two, two and a half hours of driving.
>> >>: For San Diego works the choice is clear.
A house in San Diego or a house in Temecula, and everything in between.