Wine Country area of Scripps Ranch: Off Base Area of Town

What I didn't like about this area is that we made no neighborhood friends in the 18 months that we lived here. There were very few families with young children. Most residents are the original owners. We found that people kept to themselves here, which made transitioning hard for our kids. What I did like was our schools- Ellen Browning Scripps Elementary, and Thrugood Marshall Middle School were the schools my kids attended at the time. There is a great community park near the rec center. They also offer preschool, but it is expensive. The majority of the shopping that we did was either in Poway or Mira Mesa- lots of stoplights and traffic. Not bad, but kind of a pain. We did our commissary shopping at Miramar and used the pool there also. The commute to North Island was also a pain. This neighborhood is off Pomerado Rd which is two lanes and really backs up from the 15 into Scripps Ranch. The whole time we lived here I wished we would have picked a different neighborhood in Scripps Ranch. Sad but true. We moved when we got housing down in Murphy Canyon, and were much happier with the demographic and the commute time.