[quote=utcsox][quote=zk]Torrey hills is nice. You might also want to consider the communities immediately adjacent to the east. Carriage Run has some (relatively) affordable homes, and they’re almost new. Steeplechase is a bit older, but nice. It’s an extra 2 or 3 minutes from SV to Steeplechase (compared to torrey hills) but it’s 2 or 3 minutes closer to the middle school and the high school.

Busy is a relative term, but I’d say CM road is pretty noisy and busy.[/quote]

Carriage Run is nice, but the pricing is really really confusing. I have seen the pricing for plan 1 range from low 600 to mid 800s. FYI, the former model model houses for plan 1, 2, 3 sold for $760k, $835k, and $863k respectively.[/quote]

The plan 1 sold for low 600K was: (1) very close to power line/tower; (2) one of the last few homes left so builder lowered the price to close the book/community; (3) seasoned buyer that knows the builder. You not going to find another one like that for that price…

The model plan 1 has many upgrades but poor floor plan with 2 bedrooms up and 1 down. Pardee later revised that floor plan to 3 bedrooms up and 1 down. But still a good price at $760K.