sdrealtor & yogamom,
Yes both areas are beautiful and are sought after for different reasons … after a point it becomes highly subjective to what buyer prefers. I still remember when we first started checking out all 4 zipcodes of Carlsbad and driving every weekend to checkout open houses. I think it was the Resort like feel of Avaiar that sdrealtor is talking about … it got “sold” to us without any realtor marketing it.
About the premium of 92011 vs 92009 or parts of 92009 … we are actually splitting the hairs. We can keep on drilling down from ‘parts-of-92009’ to ‘streets-of-parts-of-92009’ and so on.