It’s really the same city to me, even French Valley, is a whole three miles from the Temecula mall (I Guess it would be a rather long walk for your kids).
Beware of these low prices; a lot of these are a bait and switch type of thing these days (personally I think we are within 10% of the bottom for this area, it’s really been wacked good).
I have lived in the TV for 5 years now, it’s a nice place to live, and there are good restaurants and shopping at the TV mall area.
The beach is about 40 minutes to an hour away on the weekends depending on where you want to go.
It gets hot in the summer (but that’s what god made air conditioning for and in these newer homes it will probably cost you a lot less than most think to keep cool), winter is nice but sometimes your more tropical plants may suffer when there is the occasional freeze .