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Are You Relocating? About San Diego County San Diego County is the southern most county in California, encompassing an area about the size of the state of Connecticut. Nearly three million people live here. San Diego County is comprised of 18 incorporated cities—the largest of which is the City of San Diego. The City of San Diego is the seventh largest city in the nation. Overview Welcome to the coast! It’s what makes San Diego such a world-class destination. With 70 miles of coastline, about a dozen communities work their way from the border to Camp Pendleton west of Interstate 5. The coast is where California cool began. From its breaking waves, it speaks to all that is primordial yet hip and trendy. The Pacific Ocean. The cliffs. Ocean and bay view homes. Fabulous sunsets. World-class surfers and triathletes. The world’s most beautiful women. The world’s most concentrated city of scientists and doctors. Metropolitan San Diego is the heart of the County with over 40% of its population and the bulk of its history, tradition and culture. There’s dozens of different communities and peoples who live here and give the city its distinctive blend of culture, art, food and style.
Today you’ll witness Black, Hispanic, Vietnamese and Jamaican markets, bodegas, restaurants, and churches amid the continuing evolution of the city. Here is where the American Dream of a better life is reborn daily. Then, look around and you’re at San Diego State University, where thousands of collegians walk and live. The Boulevard is revitalized again! And continuing east, into the decades-old, family business of La Mesa. This 20 minute car trip tells a story of the history of our town—its past and its future. The ongoing change of this great boulevard over a lifetime creates a wonderful pencil drawing on this canvas of America’s Finest City. East County Overview East County has been described as “the home of big country, with wide open spaces and a family-comes-first disposition.”
Although Interstate 8 starts in Ocean Beach, it weaves east through San Diego, El Centro and into Arizona. It is the perfect road to see the East County. Starting in Mission Valley, you’ll venture up the hill into San Diego State and then down past La Mesa and into the valley of El Cajon. Breathtaking Hills surround you. Venture east and you’ll pass Indian casinos and horse country leading past Alpine and up into the pristine mountains, valleys and lakes of Pine Valley. Are we in Oregon? Go north on Sate Highway 79 and you’ll soon enter a series of serene little mountain towns near Lake Cuyamaca. Somehow, it seems like a drive through Napa wine country. Loop back onto what becomes Highway 67 and you’ll slowly enter civilization again. Ramona welcomes you with eighty-foot high eucalyptus trees. In Lakeside, country music and cowboy boots rule. And Santee boasts one of the few remaining drive-in movie theatres in the whole County. What could be more American than three kids in their pj’s watching a Disney movie from the bed of their truck on a Saturday night in July? The East County retains an old style homespun feel under its huge sky. Progress can’t touch it—and that’s why living here is so special.
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For example, let’s drive El Cajon Boulevard, a
key east-west 50 block thoroughfare. Prior to 1960, “The Boulevard” was the
essence of San Diego, its main drag a place to see and be seen. 
That’s so true. With its lakes, mountains and
spectacular changes-of-season, a typical garage will sport a pick-up truck, an
SUV, a boat, two bikes and a dune buggy. Here, you’ll find mountaintops with
endless vistas and regional parks with hundreds of miles of trails. Sovereign
Indian tribes have lived here for 10,000 years. And the beauty of the back
country can be seen on bike or with pack.
East County Communities
This is truly beautiful country with mesas, hills, valleys,
boulders, parkland and lakes. The lots are large, the houses too and the
neighbors like their wide open spaces. Jamul’s got a post office and an
elementary/middle school and some stores and lots of horses. In Dehesa, there’s
golf and the nearby Sycuan Casino and Resort
Some Beach Communities