5 Great Neighborhoods in San Diego

By Aaron Heier, FrontDoor.com | Published: 1/14/2009

Mission Hills features large, estatelike homes on streets lined with palm trees. Aaron Heier

While others may disagree, San Diego can be completely defined by its neighborhoods. Incredibly close together in proximity, yet vastly different in makeup, these little villages -- or towns within the city -- speak volumes about the range and diversity of the city's residents, businesses, visitors and topography.

MISSION HILLS

Grand and historic, yet not at all ostentatious, Mission Hills, along the city's hilly central bay front, is divided into two parts: North Mission Hills (know as Mission Hills "proper") and South Mission Hills (locally referred to in jest as the ghetto). Both neighborhoods, separated by Washington Avenue's quaint Mission Hills Village of salons, boutiques, coffee shops and real estate agencies, have some of the most sought after real estate in the city. Large, impressive, often estatelike homes look like trophies amidst a sea of perfectly manicured lawns that seamlessly flow down curvy, tree-lined streets. View Mission Hills Real Estate

The Neighbors: An eclectic mix of well-to-do gay couples, young "new money" families and wealthy, established baby boomer professionals

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