I would suggest perhaps that you maybe spend some time here in town renting for a few months before making a decision on where to buy. The communities are really quite different. The UTC condo country is not anywhere close to a coastal life although technically it is only a few miles away. Conversely Carmel Valley is quite nice but again, it is not a coastal life style. The original condo brought up in this thread is off of Carmel Valley Road, but it is in a location at the far far far west tip of Carmel Valley and I didn’t check but may be Del Mar by zip. The fact that you are not familiar with areas like this would alert me to caution you that getting a sense of the county coastline is a good idea before committing a few hundred thousand to the purchase of a condo.
