Trying to move to a different State all together. The thing about San Diego area is you are always a stones throw from a bad area. When we moved here it was a nice working-class area thanks to the housing boom. Brand new house/neighborhood across from a brand new shopping mall. Three years later and there are vagrant camps lining the freeway and the neighborhoods that were Navy or new home buyers have left and are now replaced with multi-family renters and squatters. This is probably the same story in places all over he country though.