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AVERAGE LIST PRICE:
4 BEDROOM $266,000- 3 BEDROOM $ 182,000

Bedroom community, located inland from Oceanside and Carlsbad. Mix of old and new. Built on hills and mesas. Many view homes. Country feeling. Community indicates good support for education. Older children attend Vista High School.

When you shop for homes in Vista, your choices will run across the housing styles of four decades. The older will be smaller and cheaper; the newer often larger and more expensive. A lot of the new. Vista is a town with tucked-away neighborhoods, one of them a country club subdivision, Shadowridge. The mesas add to the country feeling as they discourage development in the ravines and on the steeper slopes. Located about seven miles from the ocean. Cooling breezes. Just outside city limits, some people have built mansions in the hills. Custom jobs. Great views.

Eight parks, some large. Golf. Little theater. Beaches, boating, fishing close by. Also nearby, two community colleges. New library. Usual activities: Little League, soccer, football, etc. Softball is popular for men and women; abut 100 teams are fielded each year.

Forty-five miles to downtown San Diego. Commute rail to San Diego can be picked up at Oceanside and Carlsbad. Plans are to run a light rail line along the Highway 78 corridor, from Oceanside to Escondido.