| Do have kids and did you want to buy a | | | | fantasies of what a home should be in |
| home in Temecula California? If so then | | | | the Menifee Lakes community especially. |
| please let me introduce you to Homes in | | | | Menifee Lakes is a community of old |
| Menifee California. Menifee is 16 miles | | | | family values and similarities with a |
| north of Temecula. Both cities are | | | | slight twist, the kids that grow up in |
| located next to the freeway, and are | | | | this community are self aware, abundant, |
| 10-15 minutes apart. Most people know | | | | really cool and plugged in to their |
| more about Temecula than Menifee. | | | | community. Yes, finally a community that |
| Menifee began to take shape in the 80s. | | | | takes care of their own that's not |
| At the point of this writing in 2007 I | | | | wierd. The kids here do not act like |
| want to share about a particular place | | | | community droids like you would find at |
| in Menifee because not all of Menifee is | | | | a boarding school or a religious |
| ideal, but there is one place where all | | | | community. They also do not act like |
| the local professionals, police and fire | | | | country bumbkins who grow up without |
| officers and teachers go to raise their | | | | learning how to read. Nope, the kids |
| children and it has everything! So much | | | | here are different, unique, bold, and |
| so that I wish I grew up in a place like | | | | they reflect the modern era of what a |
| it. There is more in this place being | | | | kid is suppose to be in order to make |
| offered to children for FREE than was | | | | it, an explorer, a thinker, a doer. |
| offered where I lived in Los Angeles and | | | | People come to Menifee Lakes to raise |
| Orange County growing up. The place I | | | | their children because it is peaceful |
| want to talk about is my listing in | | | | and amped with things to do. The lakes |
| Menifee Lakes California. | | | | at Menifee Lakes are crystal clear, |
| I am currently selling 30486 Lake Watch | | | | there's free fishing, ducks, and |
| Court, Menifee, CA 92584. As an Orange | | | | seagulls? Yes! It is an ideal place to |
| County and Los Angeles person, which is | | | | live also because all the schools are in |
| where I grew up mostly in Southern | | | | walking distance except high school |
| California, Temecula and the IE (Inland | | | | which is just a couple miles away and |
| Empire real estate which includes | | | | you do not have to cross any major |
| Riverside County and San Bernardino | | | | streets to go to elementary and middle |
| County, Temecula is a city in Riverside | | | | school, how much safer can a community |
| County as is Menifee) meant everything | | | | be? The kids are all polite and almost |
| east of the 57 Freeway and everything | | | | every household has some at all ages |
| west of that was the main area where | | | | from babies to teens to early young |
| things were happening. Extremely recent | | | | adults. There is also a junior college, |
| changes in the California real estate | | | | a very famous one, San Jacinto JC, right |
| market have changed all that. The Inland | | | | on the same block, which teaches at |
| Empire no longer stands for the desert | | | | least 13,000 students a semester, so |
| or a place where nothing exists. the IE | | | | there is a mindset toward learning in |
| is no longer a phrase for similar small | | | | this community and it saves the parents |
| town living outside the city. Now the IE | | | | money and the kids time driving to and |
| is a country. So many people now live | | | | from school. The kids can walk to their |
| and work here. It has it's own cities, | | | | college classes, how unheard of is that? |
| it's own regions, it's own diversity, a | | | | In addition recreation and activities |
| rich diversity of city life, country | | | | are also very important. There are free |
| life, suburban life, singles life, and | | | | concerts and festivals set up by the |
| all walks of life now live here. | | | | community. There are also many |
| As a Southern California Real Estate | | | | activities for kids to do, a park with |
| Specialist I would like to contend that | | | | organized sports and adult activities |
| Riverside County may even be more | | | | like jazzercize in walking distance and |
| happily diverse than Los Angeles. There | | | | open to all ages k-senior, and their is |
| are people from many different cultures | | | | even a senior softball league, not to |
| living side by side in Riverside County. | | | | mention Ayso soccer, little league |
| Why? The houses. They're nice. They're | | | | baseball, basketball, most of the kids |
| affordable. They're....bigger? Better? | | | | that I have seen are skaters, and the |
| Taller and wider than the OC and Los | | | | list of things to do goes on. Most |
| Angeles?? Yes, yes yes! They are nicer | | | | importantly the kids find things that |
| and no matter where you seem to go you | | | | they like to do and interact well with |
| have your own space, your own | | | | each other. New college kids are also |
| personality within that space. You can | | | | always flooding into the area studying |
| be a true individual out here, a true | | | | and eating at the local restaurants as |
| family unit. You can fulfill all your | | | | well. |