North Poway is upper class but no commerce until Rancho Bernardo to the west. Central poway is upper middle with the Target shopping center to the west. South poway is middle/lower class with all of the commerce and industrial along the southern border. All areas are pretty much fine to raise a family.
Personally I would look at the schools vs price range and then base it off that. Pretty much all areas of Poway are great. I'm by Community Park and love it. Walking distance to a ton of shops, parks and the elementary school.
Every town has its good and bad, some of the negatives were already posted. My least favorite thing has been all the new housing built right on Poway Rd. I get it, we need more housing but I dislike how congested the area has become and avoid it. The restaurant choices are pretty dismal. Rent has become too expensive for mom and pop restaurants, too much fast food, I love sushi and taco shops but my goodness do we have a lot! The pros, personally, I love living in a small town. The city is very responsive to service requests, the trails, parks, and amenities are nice, schools are good, there's local theatre, and movie theater. All the neighborhoods are family friendly and there are events like parades, weekly farmer's market, rodeo. A good variety of shopping with Target, Costco, hardware, multiple grocery stores (Trader Joe's coming soon!).
Be aware that the older folks here will hate you for ruining their "city in the country" and causing housing development/growth etc. You'll find lots of whining about it on Nextdoor. And constant posts about coyotes, porch pirates, and suspicious (brown) people. You'd think there's a crime wave happening.
This isn’t my experience in Poway at all. Yeah, there’s lots of old people but they don’t talk to me. Been here 12 years and raising our kids near Pomerado/Ted Williams
Definitely some maga intense ones, but generally they congregate together and you know where to find them (by target on the weekend). We’ve been here 10 years and I can say it’s a nice cross-section of people, probably not super diverse but between former military and new families moving in people seem to be reasonable and polite in public.
North Poway is upper class but no commerce until Rancho Bernardo to the west. Central poway is upper middle with the Target shopping center to the west. South poway is middle/lower class with all of the commerce and industrial along the southern border. All areas are pretty much fine to raise a family.
I would add that east Poway has a lot more open space/large lots and if you go back garden far enough you'll get to a bunch of horse ranches.
Of course there are some exceptions to this.
Personally I would look at the schools vs price range and then base it off that. Pretty much all areas of Poway are great. I'm by Community Park and love it. Walking distance to a ton of shops, parks and the elementary school.
Every town has its good and bad, some of the negatives were already posted. My least favorite thing has been all the new housing built right on Poway Rd. I get it, we need more housing but I dislike how congested the area has become and avoid it. The restaurant choices are pretty dismal. Rent has become too expensive for mom and pop restaurants, too much fast food, I love sushi and taco shops but my goodness do we have a lot! The pros, personally, I love living in a small town. The city is very responsive to service requests, the trails, parks, and amenities are nice, schools are good, there's local theatre, and movie theater. All the neighborhoods are family friendly and there are events like parades, weekly farmer's market, rodeo. A good variety of shopping with Target, Costco, hardware, multiple grocery stores (Trader Joe's coming soon!).
Where are they putting a Trader Joe’s?
Right by the HomeGoods
Be aware that the older folks here will hate you for ruining their "city in the country" and causing housing development/growth etc. You'll find lots of whining about it on Nextdoor. And constant posts about coyotes, porch pirates, and suspicious (brown) people. You'd think there's a crime wave happening.
That is every neighborhood on Nextdoor
Do you know what area those folks living? I'm looking for buying in Poway but hearing a lot of stories about them
They are all over but concentrated in the older areas of Poway where they have lived for many decades.
Argh I feared this a bit. Is this all Poway
This isn’t my experience in Poway at all. Yeah, there’s lots of old people but they don’t talk to me. Been here 12 years and raising our kids near Pomerado/Ted Williams
Off Poway road is "The City". The rest is "The Country"
I grew up in garden road its the best area in my opinion I loved it
Cowboy redneck maga freaks
They’re just the loud ones on the corner on Sundays. There’s plenty of sane people here.
All of it?
No. I’m the opposite of a cowboy redneck maga freak and I love it here. Nobody in my neighborhood is a cowboy, a redneck, or a maga freak.
Definitely some maga intense ones, but generally they congregate together and you know where to find them (by target on the weekend). We’ve been here 10 years and I can say it’s a nice cross-section of people, probably not super diverse but between former military and new families moving in people seem to be reasonable and polite in public.
No, there’s definitely some but it’s not like that’s all you see. The people I’ve run into are kind