George: Excellent point about the Fallbrook schools. We live in Fallbrook and have two kids of elementary school age. We arranged an inter-district transfer and they both go to Bonsall Elementary School, which is a superior school to Fallbrook Elementary. Also, we plan on sending our kids to a private school for high school, since Fallbrook UHS has some significant issues as well.

It’s a neat community, but you do have to travel when it comes to movies, restaurants or other entertainment. Definitely an acquired taste, but I wouldn’t want to live elsewhere. We have a custom built home on 1.2ac of land and we live in a very tight-knit neighborhood.

Definitely weigh all of the options before making your decision. Bonsall is nice also, and that property that Svelte found above seems real nice (take a look at parts of Valley Center, too).