[quote=zk]Not sure if it came across like I didn’t like UC. I like UC (but I did want to set the record straight on CV), and if you don’t mind an older home, slightly less-good schools, and less young families, it’s no doubt a great place to live. The house on Condon is a bit small, but it looks like a pretty cool retro little house on a cool lot (sure, the back yard is all pool, but you’re surrounded by canyon). Somebody mentioned train noise. I don’t know about you, but I like train noise. The train only comes by occasionally, and I think it’d be cool to watch and listen to. I’m pretty sure they don’t run late at night, so they shouldn’t wake you up. You’ll get noise from jets departing Miramar there, too.[/quote]

UC is still in the running, and we’ll watch LJ near Scenic Dr too in case something we could afford comes on the market maybe right after the holidays (at which point wife would order the Segway too so she could scoot to work). But I think we’re going to try to make a decision and try to buy something in early Jan so we could move in hopefully by Feb (both to be well settled by the time baby #2 comes a few months later, and in case it is CV, to get on the list for Sage or Ocean Air).

Lived close to train tracks in Chicago once with freight trains rumbling by at 2 am (50 yards from bedroom window) – after a week we didn’t hear it anymore unless someone parked a car w/alarm on too close. I’m sure daughter would love watching them! I worry about the slope lot, though – I assume we’d be responsible for clearing brush for fire risk and such? And might be landslide risk? Still might go look at it.