PhotosPerched high above San Diego with Lake Murray at its feet, Del Cerro (“of the hill”) has always had a reputation for being tidy, tight-knit, and a tad territorial. The mid-century hillside enclave began selling …
October 23, 2025
Articles by Siobhan Braun
Nextdoor Wars: Del Cerro defends its vista
Nextdoor Wars: The case of the manually migrated mouse
University Heights has always been something of an odd duck. For one thing, there's no university there. There never was. Instead, there was a wild rush of land speculation, leading to the Bust of 1893, …
August 26, 2025
Nextdoor Wars: A look back at move-out madness around UCSD
UC San Diego started out as a brainy beachside experiment in the 1960s, a public university built on the former Camp Matthews military base, sandwiched between pristine La Jolla canyons and some of the most …
August 13, 2025
Nextdoor Wars: ADU with a view in Serra Mesa
Serra Mesa sits high above Mission Valley, perched like a quiet observer of the chaos below. It's a neighborhood that's easy to overlook: unlike nearby Kearny Mesa, no one ever went on a meth-fueled rampage …
July 18, 2025
Nextdoor Wars: Unbearable mural in Spring Valley
Originally settled in the 19th century and known for its natural springs and citrus groves, Spring Valley has evolved into a patchwork of strip malls amid freeway on-ramps. And it's most likely because of its …
June 26, 2025
Nextdoor Wars: The Muppets Take Carlsbad
Carlsbad Village, once the kind of place where locals sipped coffee and waved at tourists, is now apparently just a street fight away from a full-blown societal collapse, if the latest Nextdoor dispatch is to …
June 11, 2025
Nextdoor Wars: East County mom takes kids to Black's Beach
San Diego has always been a city of hidden stories — murmured in the spaces between sun-bleached bungalows, whispered over backyard fences, and now, increasingly, shouted into the digital void of neighborhood apps. And nowhere …
May 22, 2025
Nextdoor Wars: A headless goat in a College Area canyon
San Diego has always been a city of hidden stories — murmured in the spaces between sun-bleached bungalows, whispered over backyard fences, and now, increasingly, shouted into the digital void of neighborhood apps. And nowhere …
May 14, 2025
Nextdoor Wars: A wizard heads out for coffee in Golden Hill
San Diego has always been a city of hidden stories — murmured in the spaces between sun-bleached bungalows, whispered over backyard fences, and now, increasingly, shouted into the digital void of neighborhood apps. And nowhere …
May 7, 2025