Yeap that’s me, My back yard is facing south actually. I like it, to be honest I don’t have a GREAT view but it was important to me to NOT have someone elses window looking down into my back yard. South facing is not good for growing grass though, so my back yard (which is pretty big by CA standards 10,000sq ft lot) is a bunch of weeds as I couldn’t justify the water waste to keep it green.
As far as the premium, I guess that’s hard to tell what that was now that the whole market has collapsed since I bought. But all in all, it was a good setup to spend the last 2.5 years, and I’d have to say the privacy, scenery, breeze is worth it to me. YMMV
