Help for a Porsche Club Holland member?

[ttweed]

I have kept in touch with the very nice fellow from Holland who bought my '67 911S a couple years ago. He is a fellow Porsche Club and R Gruppe member and does business here in the USA, so his English is very good, but he is pretty unfamiliar with San Diego. I just received this note from him:

"My son Derek is 17 and will be graduating from High School this summer. Before going to college here in Holland, he wants to live/study/work in California for a year. He probably will be going to Cuyamaca College in El Cajon to do automotive technology for a year. I am in trying to get a place to live for him on the campus of SDSU, but we’re not yet sure if they will have space.

In case that doesn’t work out, we need to find another place for him to stay in San Diego. I don’t know anybody in San Diego, but thought of you. Would you maybe have any tips, maybe you know somebody who rents out rooms? Or any other suggestions? Any help would be much appreciated"

I was wondering if any PCA-SDR members would have any good info about housing accommodations in East County for him I could pass on? I told him that SDSU is not that close to Cuyamaca, and if it were me, I would want to live as close to campus as possible, so the best thing to do would be to find a room in a house in Rancho San Diego, possibly with a family who is renting out a spare room, or with a group of other students who are renting a house or condo. I would contact the student services office there to see if they keep a list of available housing, or whether there is an online bulletin board for students to hook up to share a rental. I also told him to check Craigslist for San Diego, and look for rentals by searching on Rancho San Diego. Anybody got any other hot tips I can pass on, or would like to rent a room in that area to a foreign student?

Thx,
TT

[Dan Chambers]

Tom: I think your ideas of housing info through the campus system and searching Craigslist are really good, probably the way to go. As for the SDSU dorms, back in my day (yeah, when Socrates was a professor there ) you couldn't get a dorm room unless you were registered/enrolled at that university. Maybe it's changed now .....

I worked in El Cajon off Mollison this week and saw a couple of for rent signs in the recently renovated apt. complexes there, and on Greenfield Ave west of Mollison ... near Magnolia Elementary. Don't know if those are listed anywhere or what the costs were.

[jenniferreinhardt]

His main focus is to study but he may want to have fun too - El Cajon is not exactly at the top of the fun list and is a bit far out from town. I know because I live there and grew up in East County (would love to move back towards town) Also, some areas are not safe anymore - check out where the most crime occurs online - Rancho San Diego is pretty safe. There are some nice areas in/near La Mesa for rentals (Grossmont area, Lake Murray area, Allied Gardens, Del Cerro) where people may rent rooms and there are lots of apartments. This is still close to the freeways (8 East to 125 South to 94 East) to get to Cuyamaca College, much cooler, (temperature wise), and he can also get to some different areas of town pretty quickly.

There are lots of apartments/condos around Cuyamaca if he really does want to be that far out.

[martinreinhardt]

El Cajon is not exactly at the top of the fun list.

I agree 100%. Why does he want to go to school in east county, I would make sure to go to the beach and learn how to Surf or something.

Coming from Europe he will fell like going back in time to the 1980's

[Kone Killer]

jenniferreinhardt wrote:
El Cajon is not exactly at the top of the fun list.

As a resident for the past 21 years of the Redneck Riviera (Santee) I totally agree. My kids go west to the beach every chance they get.

[ttweed]

I don't know how he chose Cuyamaca of all the community colleges, but his father said he was going to study "Automotive Technology" there. Do they have a noteworthy program in that?

You don't have to tell me about the beach area. I grew up in Spring Valley and La Mesa when they were still "country" and used to drive the 13 miles to the beach every chance I got. Moved to La Jolla to go to college when I was 17 and never looked back...

TT

[jenniferreinhardt]

Not sure about the automotive program, but the campus is in a nice setting, clean, pretty new and easier to park. I like it better there than City or Mesa.

[ronaldtrotter]

Hey, Tom don't bad mouth the Valley. I worked there forever and don't want to live there. But don't bad mouth Spring Valley or the gangsters will show up in La Jolla.