I think your wife would like FBR. I think it is a real community where she could meet friends at the park and get involved at the local elementary school. I know your realtor says otherwise, but I don’t see how prices there can stay steady while everything else declines. Do you like your realtor here? One of my neighbors is a realtor in that area and price range (plenty of pictures of him in Dream Homes magazine) and he is a very nice guy. I have never done business with him, but he seems like a straight up kind of person. Maybe I should ask him what he thinks.
Santa Luz is nice, but very overpriced. We looked there in 2001. We actually looked at a house that I can see from this house and I still like this one better. Santa Luz was built at a bad time when things were too expensive. Prices ran up too fast and now huge numbers of people are underwater. That story can’t have a happy ending.
The Bridges. Beautiful area with some beautiful homes, but too remote for my taste. A friend/colleague just moved there last month. He is nice enough, but he is definitely the kind of person who likes to impress people. He likes to show off his money and be around like-minded pompous people. I have been to the club at the Bridges twice with another friend. Too much bowing and scraping for me. I am not the country club type and I don’t particularly want people to kiss my ### because I have money. I could be way off base, but my impression of the Bridges is one of over the top snobbery.
I don’t think the Covenant is really a “get to know your neighbors” kind of place and so, for me, not the best choice for kids. I want my kids to play with the kids down the street and I don’t think that happens much in the Covenant. Particularly if you are on 5 acres. I only personally know one person who raised a family while living there. His kids were fine when they were young, but as they got involved in school activities they complained that all their friends lived “in town”. He complained that he felt like a chaffeur.
