BG, you seem to fail to understand that I’m not comparing custom to tract home. If you want to compare custom to custom, then compare Del Mar to any place in SV that’s w/in 1 mile of the water and have top school. Then tell me how much it cost to buy a comparable house. You’re the one who’s comparing apples to oranges. I’m asking you to compare apple to apple. You’re also the one who brought up living w/in your mean. Which mean buying a 400k house when your HHI is $150k. You can do that down here, you can’t do that up there. I want to live w/in my mean, which mean buying a place that’s ~3x my income and that place have to be w/in 3-4 miles from work. There’s NOTHING that would satisfy those criteria in SV. Whether you dislike tract house or not is irrelevant. I don’t have a disdain for tract house like you do. Like Brian said, a house is a house. I disdain a poorly layout house. So if a custom home have horribly layout floor plan, then I view those in much worse light than a similar size, better layout, tract house.
