Advice on 5bdrms in Carmel Country Highlands

[Anonymous]

[quote=bearishgurl]yellowS2K, of course utpoundpuppy (a brand-new poster) and zk are happy about their investments in Carmel Valley. utpoundpuppy states he/she bought there ten years ago and zk states he/she bought there in 2002.

The prices they likely paid for a comparably-sized property you will ostensibly purchase for $875K to $1.1M was likely =<$275K to $425K for them. [/quote]

Funny, nothing in my entire post spoke of my “investment”. I spoke only of the neighborhood, traffic, schools, walkability, distance to ocean, etc. Your estimate of purchase price 10 years ago is also far too low.

I didn’t post to try to coerce or argue against someone’s point, only to try to be helpful by providing the perspective of someone in the neighborhood with kids in the schools, and a link to a news story on the school crowding issue. I’ve read this web site for years but never felt like I had something worthy of adding before, which is why I’m a “brand-new poster”. Although I don’t see how that’s relevant for pointing out. It doesn’t make my experience here less real.

[yellowS2K]

[quote=zk]I agree that there’s no meaningful difference between the 4 schools. I think what ys2k is looking for is to walk his kids to school, which he wouldn’t be able to do if he lived in Bridle Ridge and his kids went to Torrey Hills.[/quote]

Yep — that’s pretty much it. We’re definitely not fixated on one particular school – all of them are good and if the worst case was she ended up at Torrey Hills and we couldn’t walk, well, it wouldn’t be the end of the world and we wouldn’t regret our decision (if that’s what we end up deciding to buy). It’s certainly not like we’d be picking the neighborhood and home for only this one reason.

[yellowS2K]

[quote=zk]I agree that there’s no meaningful difference between the 4 schools. I think what ys2k is looking for is to walk his kids to school, which he wouldn’t be able to do if he lived in Bridle Ridge and his kids went to Torrey Hills.[/quote]

Yep — that’s pretty much it. We’re definitely not fixated on one particular school – all of them are good and if the worst case was she ended up at Torrey Hills and we couldn’t walk, well, it wouldn’t be the end of the world and we wouldn’t regret our decision (if that’s what we end up deciding to buy). It’s certainly not like we’d be picking the neighborhood and home for only this one reason.

[yellowS2K]

[quote=zk]I agree that there’s no meaningful difference between the 4 schools. I think what ys2k is looking for is to walk his kids to school, which he wouldn’t be able to do if he lived in Bridle Ridge and his kids went to Torrey Hills.[/quote]

Yep — that’s pretty much it. We’re definitely not fixated on one particular school – all of them are good and if the worst case was she ended up at Torrey Hills and we couldn’t walk, well, it wouldn’t be the end of the world and we wouldn’t regret our decision (if that’s what we end up deciding to buy). It’s certainly not like we’d be picking the neighborhood and home for only this one reason.

[yellowS2K]

[quote=zk]I agree that there’s no meaningful difference between the 4 schools. I think what ys2k is looking for is to walk his kids to school, which he wouldn’t be able to do if he lived in Bridle Ridge and his kids went to Torrey Hills.[/quote]

Yep — that’s pretty much it. We’re definitely not fixated on one particular school – all of them are good and if the worst case was she ended up at Torrey Hills and we couldn’t walk, well, it wouldn’t be the end of the world and we wouldn’t regret our decision (if that’s what we end up deciding to buy). It’s certainly not like we’d be picking the neighborhood and home for only this one reason.

[yellowS2K]

[quote=zk]I agree that there’s no meaningful difference between the 4 schools. I think what ys2k is looking for is to walk his kids to school, which he wouldn’t be able to do if he lived in Bridle Ridge and his kids went to Torrey Hills.[/quote]

Yep — that’s pretty much it. We’re definitely not fixated on one particular school – all of them are good and if the worst case was she ended up at Torrey Hills and we couldn’t walk, well, it wouldn’t be the end of the world and we wouldn’t regret our decision (if that’s what we end up deciding to buy). It’s certainly not like we’d be picking the neighborhood and home for only this one reason.

[Coronita]

yellowS2K and zk,

I see…. In reality though, you folks probably won’t be worrying about overcrowding in Ocean Air or Sage, until the new townhome community is complete at the end of Carmel Country Highland.

[Coronita]

yellowS2K and zk,

I see…. In reality though, you folks probably won’t be worrying about overcrowding in Ocean Air or Sage, until the new townhome community is complete at the end of Carmel Country Highland.

[Coronita]

yellowS2K and zk,

I see…. In reality though, you folks probably won’t be worrying about overcrowding in Ocean Air or Sage, until the new townhome community is complete at the end of Carmel Country Highland.

[Coronita]

yellowS2K and zk,

I see…. In reality though, you folks probably won’t be worrying about overcrowding in Ocean Air or Sage, until the new townhome community is complete at the end of Carmel Country Highland.

[Coronita]

yellowS2K and zk,

I see…. In reality though, you folks probably won’t be worrying about overcrowding in Ocean Air or Sage, until the new townhome community is complete at the end of Carmel Country Highland.

[joec]

[quote=yellowS2K]

Thanks for all the tips on this from the various posts above – we’ll probably put ourselves on the wait list first thing Monday am – even if we didn’t end up living near (like La Jolla Scenic Dr), might make sense to have daycare as close to wife’s work as possible.

They take infants as young as 3 months. Probably wouldn’t want to start at 3 months – wife will take as much time as she can, and then I’ll follow that by taking as much time as I can (maybe even contemplating unpaid leave for a few months if I can work that out with my employer).

Now we just have to find/buy/move-in-to a house before the little one arrives![/quote]

Just thought I’d add that in CA, dads can also take “Paid Family Leave” so if you do take time off from work, you could get paid for it as well. Just google it and the CA site should pop up.

I think it’s all funded from CA SDI.

The school overcrowding issue is really strange to me. I think it’s only logical to give priority to people who can actually walk to the school or is right next to the school a higher placement since it seems like a no brainer for everyone. Having to drive 10 miles when you can walk across the street sounds like a pretty stupid way to do it.

[joec]

[quote=yellowS2K]

Thanks for all the tips on this from the various posts above – we’ll probably put ourselves on the wait list first thing Monday am – even if we didn’t end up living near (like La Jolla Scenic Dr), might make sense to have daycare as close to wife’s work as possible.

They take infants as young as 3 months. Probably wouldn’t want to start at 3 months – wife will take as much time as she can, and then I’ll follow that by taking as much time as I can (maybe even contemplating unpaid leave for a few months if I can work that out with my employer).

Now we just have to find/buy/move-in-to a house before the little one arrives![/quote]

Just thought I’d add that in CA, dads can also take “Paid Family Leave” so if you do take time off from work, you could get paid for it as well. Just google it and the CA site should pop up.

I think it’s all funded from CA SDI.

The school overcrowding issue is really strange to me. I think it’s only logical to give priority to people who can actually walk to the school or is right next to the school a higher placement since it seems like a no brainer for everyone. Having to drive 10 miles when you can walk across the street sounds like a pretty stupid way to do it.

[joec]

[quote=yellowS2K]

Thanks for all the tips on this from the various posts above – we’ll probably put ourselves on the wait list first thing Monday am – even if we didn’t end up living near (like La Jolla Scenic Dr), might make sense to have daycare as close to wife’s work as possible.

They take infants as young as 3 months. Probably wouldn’t want to start at 3 months – wife will take as much time as she can, and then I’ll follow that by taking as much time as I can (maybe even contemplating unpaid leave for a few months if I can work that out with my employer).

Now we just have to find/buy/move-in-to a house before the little one arrives![/quote]

Just thought I’d add that in CA, dads can also take “Paid Family Leave” so if you do take time off from work, you could get paid for it as well. Just google it and the CA site should pop up.

I think it’s all funded from CA SDI.

The school overcrowding issue is really strange to me. I think it’s only logical to give priority to people who can actually walk to the school or is right next to the school a higher placement since it seems like a no brainer for everyone. Having to drive 10 miles when you can walk across the street sounds like a pretty stupid way to do it.

[joec]

[quote=yellowS2K]

Thanks for all the tips on this from the various posts above – we’ll probably put ourselves on the wait list first thing Monday am – even if we didn’t end up living near (like La Jolla Scenic Dr), might make sense to have daycare as close to wife’s work as possible.

They take infants as young as 3 months. Probably wouldn’t want to start at 3 months – wife will take as much time as she can, and then I’ll follow that by taking as much time as I can (maybe even contemplating unpaid leave for a few months if I can work that out with my employer).

Now we just have to find/buy/move-in-to a house before the little one arrives![/quote]

Just thought I’d add that in CA, dads can also take “Paid Family Leave” so if you do take time off from work, you could get paid for it as well. Just google it and the CA site should pop up.

I think it’s all funded from CA SDI.

The school overcrowding issue is really strange to me. I think it’s only logical to give priority to people who can actually walk to the school or is right next to the school a higher placement since it seems like a no brainer for everyone. Having to drive 10 miles when you can walk across the street sounds like a pretty stupid way to do it.

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