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Thanks Bugs. When I first heard about the Crosby, it seemed that there were homes of 4br or smaller there and it catered less to families. But we have found some 5br large homes in there. Worth a look. Same for the Bridges. Seemed less likely to cater to families and the homes seemd a bit overpriced for what you get compared to other parts of RSF. But again, we found some worth looking at.

I also figured out that I have previously looked at homes in Del Mar Mesa/Mesa Del Mar. I was not as impressed with that area as Meadows Del Mar and the homes seemed to be clones of eachother. But further up that road, we have found some very large custom homes on very large lots, which seems rare for CV, so we will take a quick look there as well.

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gn. All your points are spot on.

I know some folks in Silver Creek and the homes are very nice, but it is such a long commute from the Penninsula.

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gn. All your points are spot on.

I know some folks in Silver Creek and the homes are very nice, but it is such a long commute from the Penninsula.

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gn. All your points are spot on.

I know some folks in Silver Creek and the homes are very nice, but it is such a long commute from the Penninsula.

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gn. All your points are spot on.

I know some folks in Silver Creek and the homes are very nice, but it is such a long commute from the Penninsula.

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gn. All your points are spot on.

I know some folks in Silver Creek and the homes are very nice, but it is such a long commute from the Penninsula.

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gn. This is an interesting debate. I am dealing with the same question. I love Fairbanks Ranch. It is very established with mature landscaping and most people in there can comfortably afford their homes. The homes are beautiful and of excellent quality, the community beautiful, and location ideal. The downside is that almost every house I have seen there is in desperate need of an extreme makeover.

Another area I am looking at closely is Santaluz. There I am looking at brand new homes in unestablished areas that need no change whatsoever.

Overall, I prefer an established area. But then you have to remodel and hope your neighbors do to keep the area in top shape and that costs lots of $$. I can tell you in Los Altos hills and Los Altos up here, there are lots of 60-100 yr old shacks next to huge new dream homes and it looks very very odd. Not that FBR has that extreme problem, since the oldest houses are a mere 20 yrs old or so.

With a new house you can find exacltly what you want (well I have in Santaluz) and just move in and be done. Presumably newer houses will drive your value up as they are built around you.

But in this market, buying in a new area should be a better deal since developers need to unload inventory. That is the odd thing, Santaluz is very overpriced compared to more established areas like the Covenant and Fairbanks Ranch.

So one key reason for me to more likely buy in FBR or the Covenant is that I think Santaluz is way overpriced for what you get, and then you have the Mello Roos taxes and Poway schools in Del Sur. But, that won’t stop me from still looking in Santaluz. The houses I have seen are just great and the landscape motif has grown on me. I still like the area. I just don’t want to over pay.

So still in play for me are new and old areas. Each has a pro and a con so who knows where I will end up. FBR ranch is still my favorite, but I may just as easlily end up in other established areas like the Covenant, or newer ones like Sataluz and Cielo.

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gn. This is an interesting debate. I am dealing with the same question. I love Fairbanks Ranch. It is very established with mature landscaping and most people in there can comfortably afford their homes. The homes are beautiful and of excellent quality, the community beautiful, and location ideal. The downside is that almost every house I have seen there is in desperate need of an extreme makeover.

Another area I am looking at closely is Santaluz. There I am looking at brand new homes in unestablished areas that need no change whatsoever.

Overall, I prefer an established area. But then you have to remodel and hope your neighbors do to keep the area in top shape and that costs lots of $$. I can tell you in Los Altos hills and Los Altos up here, there are lots of 60-100 yr old shacks next to huge new dream homes and it looks very very odd. Not that FBR has that extreme problem, since the oldest houses are a mere 20 yrs old or so.

With a new house you can find exacltly what you want (well I have in Santaluz) and just move in and be done. Presumably newer houses will drive your value up as they are built around you.

But in this market, buying in a new area should be a better deal since developers need to unload inventory. That is the odd thing, Santaluz is very overpriced compared to more established areas like the Covenant and Fairbanks Ranch.

So one key reason for me to more likely buy in FBR or the Covenant is that I think Santaluz is way overpriced for what you get, and then you have the Mello Roos taxes and Poway schools in Del Sur. But, that won’t stop me from still looking in Santaluz. The houses I have seen are just great and the landscape motif has grown on me. I still like the area. I just don’t want to over pay.

So still in play for me are new and old areas. Each has a pro and a con so who knows where I will end up. FBR ranch is still my favorite, but I may just as easlily end up in other established areas like the Covenant, or newer ones like Sataluz and Cielo.

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gn. This is an interesting debate. I am dealing with the same question. I love Fairbanks Ranch. It is very established with mature landscaping and most people in there can comfortably afford their homes. The homes are beautiful and of excellent quality, the community beautiful, and location ideal. The downside is that almost every house I have seen there is in desperate need of an extreme makeover.

Another area I am looking at closely is Santaluz. There I am looking at brand new homes in unestablished areas that need no change whatsoever.

Overall, I prefer an established area. But then you have to remodel and hope your neighbors do to keep the area in top shape and that costs lots of $$. I can tell you in Los Altos hills and Los Altos up here, there are lots of 60-100 yr old shacks next to huge new dream homes and it looks very very odd. Not that FBR has that extreme problem, since the oldest houses are a mere 20 yrs old or so.

With a new house you can find exacltly what you want (well I have in Santaluz) and just move in and be done. Presumably newer houses will drive your value up as they are built around you.

But in this market, buying in a new area should be a better deal since developers need to unload inventory. That is the odd thing, Santaluz is very overpriced compared to more established areas like the Covenant and Fairbanks Ranch.

So one key reason for me to more likely buy in FBR or the Covenant is that I think Santaluz is way overpriced for what you get, and then you have the Mello Roos taxes and Poway schools in Del Sur. But, that won’t stop me from still looking in Santaluz. The houses I have seen are just great and the landscape motif has grown on me. I still like the area. I just don’t want to over pay.

So still in play for me are new and old areas. Each has a pro and a con so who knows where I will end up. FBR ranch is still my favorite, but I may just as easlily end up in other established areas like the Covenant, or newer ones like Sataluz and Cielo.

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gn. This is an interesting debate. I am dealing with the same question. I love Fairbanks Ranch. It is very established with mature landscaping and most people in there can comfortably afford their homes. The homes are beautiful and of excellent quality, the community beautiful, and location ideal. The downside is that almost every house I have seen there is in desperate need of an extreme makeover.

Another area I am looking at closely is Santaluz. There I am looking at brand new homes in unestablished areas that need no change whatsoever.

Overall, I prefer an established area. But then you have to remodel and hope your neighbors do to keep the area in top shape and that costs lots of $$. I can tell you in Los Altos hills and Los Altos up here, there are lots of 60-100 yr old shacks next to huge new dream homes and it looks very very odd. Not that FBR has that extreme problem, since the oldest houses are a mere 20 yrs old or so.

With a new house you can find exacltly what you want (well I have in Santaluz) and just move in and be done. Presumably newer houses will drive your value up as they are built around you.

But in this market, buying in a new area should be a better deal since developers need to unload inventory. That is the odd thing, Santaluz is very overpriced compared to more established areas like the Covenant and Fairbanks Ranch.

So one key reason for me to more likely buy in FBR or the Covenant is that I think Santaluz is way overpriced for what you get, and then you have the Mello Roos taxes and Poway schools in Del Sur. But, that won’t stop me from still looking in Santaluz. The houses I have seen are just great and the landscape motif has grown on me. I still like the area. I just don’t want to over pay.

So still in play for me are new and old areas. Each has a pro and a con so who knows where I will end up. FBR ranch is still my favorite, but I may just as easlily end up in other established areas like the Covenant, or newer ones like Sataluz and Cielo.

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gn. This is an interesting debate. I am dealing with the same question. I love Fairbanks Ranch. It is very established with mature landscaping and most people in there can comfortably afford their homes. The homes are beautiful and of excellent quality, the community beautiful, and location ideal. The downside is that almost every house I have seen there is in desperate need of an extreme makeover.

Another area I am looking at closely is Santaluz. There I am looking at brand new homes in unestablished areas that need no change whatsoever.

Overall, I prefer an established area. But then you have to remodel and hope your neighbors do to keep the area in top shape and that costs lots of $$. I can tell you in Los Altos hills and Los Altos up here, there are lots of 60-100 yr old shacks next to huge new dream homes and it looks very very odd. Not that FBR has that extreme problem, since the oldest houses are a mere 20 yrs old or so.

With a new house you can find exacltly what you want (well I have in Santaluz) and just move in and be done. Presumably newer houses will drive your value up as they are built around you.

But in this market, buying in a new area should be a better deal since developers need to unload inventory. That is the odd thing, Santaluz is very overpriced compared to more established areas like the Covenant and Fairbanks Ranch.

So one key reason for me to more likely buy in FBR or the Covenant is that I think Santaluz is way overpriced for what you get, and then you have the Mello Roos taxes and Poway schools in Del Sur. But, that won’t stop me from still looking in Santaluz. The houses I have seen are just great and the landscape motif has grown on me. I still like the area. I just don’t want to over pay.

So still in play for me are new and old areas. Each has a pro and a con so who knows where I will end up. FBR ranch is still my favorite, but I may just as easlily end up in other established areas like the Covenant, or newer ones like Sataluz and Cielo.

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HHH. I know you are not referring to me as a google-gazillionaire. I work for a living. And that price range, as you can imagine, is the very very low end of high end or the high end of ordinary up here. Indeed, your comment is what makes it so different up here. Don’t mistake different for better.

That price range will buy me my version of a dream house in SD, but not here. The size you mention is what I am finding in SD, not here, unless you are talking South San Jose. The few 5k+ sf homes I have found in Los Altos/Los Altos hills are in two categories, (i) in my price range, but on small lots with the extra square footage in the form of a finished basement, or (ii) way out of my league.

Google folks are not the only folks that drive prices here and force us to lower our expectations so much, though the high level Google folks have had a lot to do with price stabalization and increases in Atherton, Woodside, Portala Valley, and even Los Altos Hills.

Either way, I would like to point out that I did not disagree with your post. You were spot on. I was just saying, it could be worse. Here you get 1/2 the house than you do in SD with 1/10th the weather. Nuff said.

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HHH. I know you are not referring to me as a google-gazillionaire. I work for a living. And that price range, as you can imagine, is the very very low end of high end or the high end of ordinary up here. Indeed, your comment is what makes it so different up here. Don’t mistake different for better.

That price range will buy me my version of a dream house in SD, but not here. The size you mention is what I am finding in SD, not here, unless you are talking South San Jose. The few 5k+ sf homes I have found in Los Altos/Los Altos hills are in two categories, (i) in my price range, but on small lots with the extra square footage in the form of a finished basement, or (ii) way out of my league.

Google folks are not the only folks that drive prices here and force us to lower our expectations so much, though the high level Google folks have had a lot to do with price stabalization and increases in Atherton, Woodside, Portala Valley, and even Los Altos Hills.

Either way, I would like to point out that I did not disagree with your post. You were spot on. I was just saying, it could be worse. Here you get 1/2 the house than you do in SD with 1/10th the weather. Nuff said.

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HHH. I know you are not referring to me as a google-gazillionaire. I work for a living. And that price range, as you can imagine, is the very very low end of high end or the high end of ordinary up here. Indeed, your comment is what makes it so different up here. Don’t mistake different for better.

That price range will buy me my version of a dream house in SD, but not here. The size you mention is what I am finding in SD, not here, unless you are talking South San Jose. The few 5k+ sf homes I have found in Los Altos/Los Altos hills are in two categories, (i) in my price range, but on small lots with the extra square footage in the form of a finished basement, or (ii) way out of my league.

Google folks are not the only folks that drive prices here and force us to lower our expectations so much, though the high level Google folks have had a lot to do with price stabalization and increases in Atherton, Woodside, Portala Valley, and even Los Altos Hills.

Either way, I would like to point out that I did not disagree with your post. You were spot on. I was just saying, it could be worse. Here you get 1/2 the house than you do in SD with 1/10th the weather. Nuff said.

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HHH. I know you are not referring to me as a google-gazillionaire. I work for a living. And that price range, as you can imagine, is the very very low end of high end or the high end of ordinary up here. Indeed, your comment is what makes it so different up here. Don’t mistake different for better.

That price range will buy me my version of a dream house in SD, but not here. The size you mention is what I am finding in SD, not here, unless you are talking South San Jose. The few 5k+ sf homes I have found in Los Altos/Los Altos hills are in two categories, (i) in my price range, but on small lots with the extra square footage in the form of a finished basement, or (ii) way out of my league.

Google folks are not the only folks that drive prices here and force us to lower our expectations so much, though the high level Google folks have had a lot to do with price stabalization and increases in Atherton, Woodside, Portala Valley, and even Los Altos Hills.

Either way, I would like to point out that I did not disagree with your post. You were spot on. I was just saying, it could be worse. Here you get 1/2 the house than you do in SD with 1/10th the weather. Nuff said.

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