Hey Bearvine, leave me a shred of hope that Morgan Hill is a decent place to live!

So you were in K. Hov land – we actually passed on the single level house at the corner of Arietta and Milat, the one that is perpendicular to the first Ventana home. The home had fallen out of escrow and the sales office offered it to us for $604,900. Hubby wanted it but I saw where prices were headed and convinced him to pass. Too bad I couldn’t get him to pass on the one we did buy in McMillin land.

I remember one thing that concerned me about the Ventana homes were the rumors about Butterfield and/or Anza morphing into a passage to the 15. Have you been able to verify this, or is it just a possibility? And yes, it was also rumored that the orchard would be developed into small parcel housing, but I figure the housing crash will stop that for years.

I never thought there were views in Morgan Hill. The master map did show where the clubhouse would be. I don’t consider looking at ravines or an endless sea of tract homes to be a view, but others do. It’s funny what people will pay extra for.

Now Irvine, that’s another story. I wouldn’t want to live there…grew up in O.C. and spent time there. Temecula reminds me (or at least used to remind me) of the less dense feeling in the South County of my teen years. It’s funny, I lived in the Bay Area in a downtown environment for a decade, until recently, and I had a difficult time adjusting to Temecula but now I love it here, which I’m sure is helped by getting out frequently on vacation to the Bay Area and other exciting places.