My wife and I live near Redhawk, but will be moving back to the coast in 2013. Still, we like to tour new construction. The Estates seemed a little gaudy to us, maze-like inside, a waste of square footage. A good deal compared to SD, but expensive for Temecula. You might want to check out the Hemmingway development in Redhawk, also by Standard Pacific, where new homes are being built on the golf course. Smallish lots and the houses aren’t as big as the Estates (something like 2600sf+ I think), but the first model you walk into has an awesome Great Room, more appealing to us than those in the Estates. We’re professional house hunters, so we’ve seen a lot of them, and we loved it. If we end up building a custom, we’ll be copying that room.
But those California rooms are pretty cool…
As for rednecks, there are certainly more of the breed (Cali’s version of them, anyway) in Temecula than in SD – more lifted trucks, tattoos, bikers, etc., but in general, those rednecks are also FAR more friendly than people (hick OR white collar professional) in SD. This is what I will miss most when we move.
