“Could the folks who are really interested please give me reasons why this is so as opposed to say Del Mar, or PQ which border it on either side?”
The only reason I live in CV and not Del Mar is that I can afford CV, while I can’t afford Del Mar (a house I would want to live in, anyway). I prefer CV to PQ because it’s newer (personal preference), closer to the ocean (and therefore cooler in the summer), and it has better schools.