It’s hard to imagine not being able to walk to the beach. We’re happy with how Leucadia is changing and modernizing though VERY notable that some of our neighbors are explicitly not. Anecdotally our two newest neighbors are from the Bay Area and Manhattan Beach, respectively.
Don’t get me wrong I love LCV (and really, really didn’t love living in LCO). Just commenting on the slope. I think ECC and OPE are truly the best elementary schools in EUSD, and feel strongly about sending children to public schools. That’s one nuance of the West of 5 culture, all the kids on our block go to different K-8 schools, which I always find funny. When we lived in OPE/Diegueno zone and in LCO, the La Costa Heights/Oak Crest zone, everyone on the block went to the public, zoned elementary/middle.