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For the out of town-er Garnet has a lot to offer from great location, to bars, to beach, to clubs, to great food and true young community. PB and Garnet Ave are notorious for their off the hook night life, and spring break like attitude. Since the weather is almost always warm, many college co-eds flock to PB when they are eager for a night of partying, cheap bar food, cheap drinks and barely dressed girls. The bar scene is intense here, with each night offering a different discount, deejay or theme party. Infamous for thirsty $2 Thursdays or Taco Tuesday, this block is the 21 year olds dream. Besides the partying the beach is there as well, and while drinking is outlawed on the beach, it is rarely enforced and droves of PB-ers go down to the beach to drink away the day! And since it is mostly college kids it doesn’t matter what day of the week it is, PB is always alive with the party that never stops.

N Cedros is the world famous design district in Solana Beach, across the street from the train station and just two blocks east of the Pacific Ocean. I won’t lie when I am telling you I can spend hours and hours shopping on this block. Not only does Cedros have beautiful furniture and design shops, but it also has quaint antique stores, crazy miscellaneous stores and beautiful design boutiques. It is a great place to find fun, interesting and different home décor pieces, fashion items and gag-gifts. The stores are just so fun and you can spend hours upon hours just window shopping. However, you can’t leave Cedros without visiting Zinc for their amazing coffee and breakfasts. It is truly a gift to Solana Beach. Also on N Cedros is the Belly Up, San Diego’s infamous music venue who has hosted bands such as Green Day, Neil Diamond and Chris Daughtery in its intimate venue. If you are going to see any musical performance, ever, it should be here. I urge you to visit Cedros and enjoy!

A good friend of mine lived on this street and just loved it. It is located just close enough to both the 805 and the 5 to be convenient, but far enough to way to feel like you are in a whole new world. The large semi-track homes were built with enough individual style to make each house seem special and its own. The cul-de-sac has maybe 10 houses, all at least 4 bedroom, so it is a great place to start or move in a family. Since it is a cul-de-sac there is little through traffic and the kids can play on the street. Also just down the hill a ways is the nature preserve which gives residences access to great trails and even a waterfall. The running trail is one of the best in the county and you see professional athletes training all the time. This is also one of the few residential neighborhoods in San Diego where you can still see wildlife.

If you can afford to live on or around Camino Del Mar, do it now! This is maybe the best street and residential community in all of San Diego. Just like the name suggests, Camino Del Mar is just one block east of the Del Mar Coast (one of the most beautiful beaches in all of San Diego). While this 2 mile stretch of road connects Del Mar to Solana Beach, it encompasses so many resources. One of those local resources and hot spots is Dog Beach, a great playing place for dogs, volley ball players, those looking for a tan and just fun times. You can walk to the race track, the Brig and a locally equal distance to the fine dining of Del Mar and the funky beach community that is Solana Beach. These homes are beautiful, amazing and like I said… move here now! If you can…

Top 10 Reasons to Live on this Street!

1) Close to St. Brigid’s church, that has a great youthful parish and does a ton of good in the community
2) Close to the northern portion of the beach which is pretty much just a local resource, so nice in San Diego not to have “tourists” on your beach
3) Super Northern PB, so it is not quiet La Jolla pretentious, but weeds out the PB trash
4) There are actually very nice, super cute houses on this street
5) Close the freeway and the resources that Southern La Jolla has to offer
6) Lots of young families! – I mean lots of little tikes roaming around
7) Super close to the dog park and more than dog friendly
8) Walking distance to the PB nonsense, but far enough away to avoid the noise, the drunkards, etc etc
9) Well patrolled by Police!
10) Great Foliage!

Top 10 Reasons to Live on this Street!

1) Close to St. Gregory’s church, which might be the greatest parish ever! So warm, friendly and kind!
2) Close to downtown Belmont (great shops, restaurants)
3) Very Family Friendly, most of the people are either young families or seniors so you have a plethora of babysitters and friends.
4) All the neighbors are friends, and borrowing a cup of sugar is encouraged
5) Close to the Hillsdale Mall, which basically has every store you can ever think of
6) Tom Brady lives around here!
7) Great library and community pool, very supportive for families
8) At least 10 schools within walking distance, which gives kids plenty of friends and play grounds
9) Cute hidden parks behind the houses, for residences only and a great community pond, with coy fish and frogs --- great for kids!
10) Super close to San Francisco, just a train ride away

Top 10 Reasons to Not to Live on this Street!

1) UCSD Frat parties – since they don’t have houses, they rent cheap ones on Governor.
2) No sense of pride or community, it is pretty much just mean neighbors.
3) Walking distance to pretty much no where, you are stuck getting in your car and sitting in traffic.
4) It is wedged in between the 52, 805 and the 5, not my “ideal” location
5) No food around, have to venture up to UTC
6) While the park is nice, it is falling apart. There is only a softball field and no play structures and the kids go there to drink.
7) Traffic is just incredibly awful one-way roads in and out… it takes forever to get anywhere and it is wedged between freeways!
8) My house was broken into there, this time the police did come!
9) Absolutely no pretty vegetation
10) One redeeming quality --- Cheap Cheap Cheap!

Top 10 Reasons to Not to Live on this Street, if you are over 30!

1) Do you like waking up to drunk people coming home from the bars at 2am on a Tuesday?
2) Do you wear a t-shirt? Because no one in PB seems to.
3) Walking distance to pretty much one of the direst places I have been Garnet, it is like Spring Break all the time
4) While it is close to the beach, there was a riot there last year and tons of underage drinking? So not so much
5) Only cheapie bar food around, at not cheapie prices
6) Did I mention it is where every college kid flocks to when they want to party?
7) Traffic is just incredibly awful 2 one-way roads in and out… it takes forever to get anywhere
8) My house was broken into there two times, neither time the police came
9) However, the police do have time to ticket your car
10) One redeeming quality--- Café 976

Perfect little street, great neighborhood and amazingly affordable!

Perfect little street, great neighborhood and amazingly affordable!

Top 10 Reasons to live on this street

1) Cute apartments and condos- that are actually affordable.
2) Great little family community- everyone plays together and there is really family/community feel
3) Walking distance to anything your heart desires – coffee, fine dining, bars, great fun restaurants, the gym, the post office, the train and did I mention the beach?
4) Close to many fun outdoor activities – running the stairs, hiking the lagoon, etc etc.
5) Walk to the best coffee in San Diego at the On-the-Go red cart
6) Walk to the best pizza in San Diego – Pizza Port
7) Easily catch the train downtown to watch the Padres play ball
8) Have I mentioned the beach?
9) The Fletcher Cove Park
10) Naked Café --- best breakfast ever, anywhere in the world!

here is the list of things to do on this street!
1) Bangkok Thai -- best Thai food San Diego has to offer
2) Blanca - So expensive, but so worth it
3) CPK- yes it is a chain, but there is reason why
4) Solana Beach Coffee - best breakfast burrito
5) Matso's - best sushi in San Diego
6) Beach Grass Cafe -- fun, good food, good times