Thank you for your comment on FBR. Interesting that you prefer North Gate. We toured houses in both. Seems to me NG is slightly older. I found the homes in South Gate more striking and we are preferring it over North Gate, although that is really splitting hairs. NG has the equestrian center, large lake, and club we noticed. Both are amazing. There is nothing remotely as nice as FBR in the Bay Area IMHO.
I don’t play golf, but we would want to join a club for the non-golfing things. I always hear, however, that homes along the fairway etc are worth more and appreciate more. We toured one next to the Del Mar golf course (which, was not in Del Mar?).
The commute sounds not so good. When we have been there on the weekend, traffic has been light compared to bay area mountain weekend traffic. I will be there Friday and maybe we should drive those commutes during rush hour to see.
We think it is best for our family because we can buy much larger homes in RSF and the lots are big. We have a large extended family that will be visiting often and we plan on 6 children of our own (3 so far). That is the criteria. We liked the privacy/seclusion of RSF, country type setting, while still being only a few miles from the beach. While we thought Del Mar was gorgeous, particularly west of Camino Del Mar, it was too dense for our needs and the homes smaller than we prefer. When we looked at schools, CV schools actually seemed a little better than RSF schools, but both were pretty comprable to the schools our kids are in up here. There is always private school.
