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Participant[quote=Scarlett]How about this one in La Jolla? To me this seems to be worth much more than the ones in BR in CV, for someone working in UCSD.
http://www.sdlookup.com/MLS-100061819-8443_Cliffridge_Ln_La_Jolla_CA_92037
It’s hard to find a 5 bdr there but there it is. SDL doesn’t list any HOA. So I don’t know about that part.
[quote=bearishgurl][quote=Scarlett]What about La Jolla?
If you rethink your requirements – just 4 bedrooms but spacious ones – La Jolla IS the most convenient in terms of commute (or as good as Torrey Hills). Schools are excellent. If money is no object, there are some nice houses around La Jolla SCENIC Drive – that where my UCSD ex-boss (faculty) lived – and the commute is really sweet. Torrey Pines elementary had the highest API in 2010 in SDUSD. Even more towards Mt. Soledad and downtown La Jolla are not that far from UCSD and you commute on city streets.[/quote]I thought about this, too, Scarlett, and realize that it would take virtually no time at all to reach the SW end of the UCSD campus from this location.
I also took into account how much the OP stated they were considering paying for a *new* SFR out in the stix with 30-40 yrs Mello Roos bonds and no guaranteed elem school attendance areas. I’ve hiked along LJ Scenic several times, in the “parklike” center median. But as I recall, isn’t most of that area, although SFRs, part of HOA(s)?? I recall a lot of one-story SFRs between 1800 – 2500 sf up there. I haven’t checked, but are there any good listings for the OP’s needs and price range up there or even around the YMCA, little league field or TP Elem across the St?
yellowS2K, are you aware that Torrey Pines Elem, Muirlands Middle/LJ High are among the VERY BEST public schools in the entire county??[/quote][/quote]
We looked at some listings there near the Torrey Pines Elem and the YMCA – they would be great to live near, but the $1.45m is $450-$500K more than what we were looking at in the CV-CCH area near Sage and Ocean Air. There are $1.5 listings up there too (e.g., one in Derby Hills right next to Ocean Air), but also a number of 5bdrms listed (existing stuff and the Pardee Bridle Ridge stuff) from high $900K to $1.1. To go as high as $1.45m – don’t know if we’d be comfortable doing that. Suppose we could always low-ball them and see what happens, but I doubt the market in LJ is that soft. We’ve actually kept an eye on the LJS area for awhile – stuff that comes on the market there at $1m seems to always come with an opening line in the description of “Bring your architect…” and it’s a 1950s-era beach cottage that’s barely been remodeled since it was first built. If we could buy there, though, wife would get a Segway to commute to work (seriously, she would). There was one (http://www.redfin.com/CA/La-Jolla/8322-Sugarman-Dr-92037/home/4881369) that just showed up as sold for $1.112m, so maybe it’s within reach. We missed this as it went from listed (Nov 15) to pending (Dec 6) and we found about about the job for sure a day or two later, and no way we could have acted fast enough even if we had seen it.
Participant[quote=Scarlett]How about this one in La Jolla? To me this seems to be worth much more than the ones in BR in CV, for someone working in UCSD.
http://www.sdlookup.com/MLS-100061819-8443_Cliffridge_Ln_La_Jolla_CA_92037
It’s hard to find a 5 bdr there but there it is. SDL doesn’t list any HOA. So I don’t know about that part.
[quote=bearishgurl][quote=Scarlett]What about La Jolla?
If you rethink your requirements – just 4 bedrooms but spacious ones – La Jolla IS the most convenient in terms of commute (or as good as Torrey Hills). Schools are excellent. If money is no object, there are some nice houses around La Jolla SCENIC Drive – that where my UCSD ex-boss (faculty) lived – and the commute is really sweet. Torrey Pines elementary had the highest API in 2010 in SDUSD. Even more towards Mt. Soledad and downtown La Jolla are not that far from UCSD and you commute on city streets.[/quote]I thought about this, too, Scarlett, and realize that it would take virtually no time at all to reach the SW end of the UCSD campus from this location.
I also took into account how much the OP stated they were considering paying for a *new* SFR out in the stix with 30-40 yrs Mello Roos bonds and no guaranteed elem school attendance areas. I’ve hiked along LJ Scenic several times, in the “parklike” center median. But as I recall, isn’t most of that area, although SFRs, part of HOA(s)?? I recall a lot of one-story SFRs between 1800 – 2500 sf up there. I haven’t checked, but are there any good listings for the OP’s needs and price range up there or even around the YMCA, little league field or TP Elem across the St?
yellowS2K, are you aware that Torrey Pines Elem, Muirlands Middle/LJ High are among the VERY BEST public schools in the entire county??[/quote][/quote]
We looked at some listings there near the Torrey Pines Elem and the YMCA – they would be great to live near, but the $1.45m is $450-$500K more than what we were looking at in the CV-CCH area near Sage and Ocean Air. There are $1.5 listings up there too (e.g., one in Derby Hills right next to Ocean Air), but also a number of 5bdrms listed (existing stuff and the Pardee Bridle Ridge stuff) from high $900K to $1.1. To go as high as $1.45m – don’t know if we’d be comfortable doing that. Suppose we could always low-ball them and see what happens, but I doubt the market in LJ is that soft. We’ve actually kept an eye on the LJS area for awhile – stuff that comes on the market there at $1m seems to always come with an opening line in the description of “Bring your architect…” and it’s a 1950s-era beach cottage that’s barely been remodeled since it was first built. If we could buy there, though, wife would get a Segway to commute to work (seriously, she would). There was one (http://www.redfin.com/CA/La-Jolla/8322-Sugarman-Dr-92037/home/4881369) that just showed up as sold for $1.112m, so maybe it’s within reach. We missed this as it went from listed (Nov 15) to pending (Dec 6) and we found about about the job for sure a day or two later, and no way we could have acted fast enough even if we had seen it.
Participant[quote=Scarlett]How about this one in La Jolla? To me this seems to be worth much more than the ones in BR in CV, for someone working in UCSD.
http://www.sdlookup.com/MLS-100061819-8443_Cliffridge_Ln_La_Jolla_CA_92037
It’s hard to find a 5 bdr there but there it is. SDL doesn’t list any HOA. So I don’t know about that part.
[quote=bearishgurl][quote=Scarlett]What about La Jolla?
If you rethink your requirements – just 4 bedrooms but spacious ones – La Jolla IS the most convenient in terms of commute (or as good as Torrey Hills). Schools are excellent. If money is no object, there are some nice houses around La Jolla SCENIC Drive – that where my UCSD ex-boss (faculty) lived – and the commute is really sweet. Torrey Pines elementary had the highest API in 2010 in SDUSD. Even more towards Mt. Soledad and downtown La Jolla are not that far from UCSD and you commute on city streets.[/quote]I thought about this, too, Scarlett, and realize that it would take virtually no time at all to reach the SW end of the UCSD campus from this location.
I also took into account how much the OP stated they were considering paying for a *new* SFR out in the stix with 30-40 yrs Mello Roos bonds and no guaranteed elem school attendance areas. I’ve hiked along LJ Scenic several times, in the “parklike” center median. But as I recall, isn’t most of that area, although SFRs, part of HOA(s)?? I recall a lot of one-story SFRs between 1800 – 2500 sf up there. I haven’t checked, but are there any good listings for the OP’s needs and price range up there or even around the YMCA, little league field or TP Elem across the St?
yellowS2K, are you aware that Torrey Pines Elem, Muirlands Middle/LJ High are among the VERY BEST public schools in the entire county??[/quote][/quote]
We looked at some listings there near the Torrey Pines Elem and the YMCA – they would be great to live near, but the $1.45m is $450-$500K more than what we were looking at in the CV-CCH area near Sage and Ocean Air. There are $1.5 listings up there too (e.g., one in Derby Hills right next to Ocean Air), but also a number of 5bdrms listed (existing stuff and the Pardee Bridle Ridge stuff) from high $900K to $1.1. To go as high as $1.45m – don’t know if we’d be comfortable doing that. Suppose we could always low-ball them and see what happens, but I doubt the market in LJ is that soft. We’ve actually kept an eye on the LJS area for awhile – stuff that comes on the market there at $1m seems to always come with an opening line in the description of “Bring your architect…” and it’s a 1950s-era beach cottage that’s barely been remodeled since it was first built. If we could buy there, though, wife would get a Segway to commute to work (seriously, she would). There was one (http://www.redfin.com/CA/La-Jolla/8322-Sugarman-Dr-92037/home/4881369) that just showed up as sold for $1.112m, so maybe it’s within reach. We missed this as it went from listed (Nov 15) to pending (Dec 6) and we found about about the job for sure a day or two later, and no way we could have acted fast enough even if we had seen it.
Participant[quote=Scarlett]How about this one in La Jolla? To me this seems to be worth much more than the ones in BR in CV, for someone working in UCSD.
http://www.sdlookup.com/MLS-100061819-8443_Cliffridge_Ln_La_Jolla_CA_92037
It’s hard to find a 5 bdr there but there it is. SDL doesn’t list any HOA. So I don’t know about that part.
[quote=bearishgurl][quote=Scarlett]What about La Jolla?
If you rethink your requirements – just 4 bedrooms but spacious ones – La Jolla IS the most convenient in terms of commute (or as good as Torrey Hills). Schools are excellent. If money is no object, there are some nice houses around La Jolla SCENIC Drive – that where my UCSD ex-boss (faculty) lived – and the commute is really sweet. Torrey Pines elementary had the highest API in 2010 in SDUSD. Even more towards Mt. Soledad and downtown La Jolla are not that far from UCSD and you commute on city streets.[/quote]I thought about this, too, Scarlett, and realize that it would take virtually no time at all to reach the SW end of the UCSD campus from this location.
I also took into account how much the OP stated they were considering paying for a *new* SFR out in the stix with 30-40 yrs Mello Roos bonds and no guaranteed elem school attendance areas. I’ve hiked along LJ Scenic several times, in the “parklike” center median. But as I recall, isn’t most of that area, although SFRs, part of HOA(s)?? I recall a lot of one-story SFRs between 1800 – 2500 sf up there. I haven’t checked, but are there any good listings for the OP’s needs and price range up there or even around the YMCA, little league field or TP Elem across the St?
yellowS2K, are you aware that Torrey Pines Elem, Muirlands Middle/LJ High are among the VERY BEST public schools in the entire county??[/quote][/quote]
We looked at some listings there near the Torrey Pines Elem and the YMCA – they would be great to live near, but the $1.45m is $450-$500K more than what we were looking at in the CV-CCH area near Sage and Ocean Air. There are $1.5 listings up there too (e.g., one in Derby Hills right next to Ocean Air), but also a number of 5bdrms listed (existing stuff and the Pardee Bridle Ridge stuff) from high $900K to $1.1. To go as high as $1.45m – don’t know if we’d be comfortable doing that. Suppose we could always low-ball them and see what happens, but I doubt the market in LJ is that soft. We’ve actually kept an eye on the LJS area for awhile – stuff that comes on the market there at $1m seems to always come with an opening line in the description of “Bring your architect…” and it’s a 1950s-era beach cottage that’s barely been remodeled since it was first built. If we could buy there, though, wife would get a Segway to commute to work (seriously, she would). There was one (http://www.redfin.com/CA/La-Jolla/8322-Sugarman-Dr-92037/home/4881369) that just showed up as sold for $1.112m, so maybe it’s within reach. We missed this as it went from listed (Nov 15) to pending (Dec 6) and we found about about the job for sure a day or two later, and no way we could have acted fast enough even if we had seen it.
Participant[quote=UCGal]…That’s 90 minutes I didn’t have to do other stuff. …[/quote]
We are at the same point in our lives: time with each other and with the kids is a top priority – especially when the kids are young and still want to hang out with us. This is my original post lists wife’s commute as the top location priority, and proximity to a good school the second location priority. At the moment I’m lucky enough to work at home roughly 3 weeks out of 4 (and commute to the airport just once for a week-long trip), but I do think longer term about being close to possibly future local employers (for me technology / software development / project management).
A co-worker reports the commute from the 56 at Camino Del Sur is about 30 minutes. Google puts it at roughly 12 miles and 16 minutes. We drove it (after looking at Pardee’s Terra Mar development and other homes in the area) on a Sunday aftenrnoon and it was 20 minutes, so 30 with rush hour traffic seems right. By contrast, from the area near Sage off Carmel Mountain it was right about 10 minutes. And my wife once test drove it at 7:45am – only traffic was off-ramp from the 5 to Genesee, and she’d be getting off at La Jolla Village so can go right around that traffic with ease.
So let’s assume it’s 20 minutes further out to Camino Del Sur area. That’s 40 minutes a day, 2hr 20mins per week, and roughly 154 hrs/year (figuring 46 weeks just as a rough number) of extra time sitting in a car. She figures to be in this job a long time – say 15 years (maybe more). For 15 years, you are now talking 2310 hours in a car. That’s like working a whole extra year and then some!
What’s worse is the the time that is lost is prime time with the kids for the M-F rat-race. Daughter typically wakes up at 6am, so if you can leave for work at 7:45 (to arrive at 8), you get 1.75 hrs. Bedtime for her is 7:30, so if you get home at 5 (leaving between 4:30-4:45), you get 2.5 hours. If you loose 40 minutes of that (20 each end), you lose about 15% of your time with her. May not seem like much, but you can do a lot in 20 minutes – rather than a race to get ready for the day in the morning, you can read a story or maybe have her “help” cook breakfast (where of course the “help” doubles the time it takes and triples the mess). Working from home most of the time I’ve been fortunate to have those little daily experiences with my daughter over the last 4 years. I can’t put a price on that.
The other big thing I enjoy is walking my daughter to school. It really is different than strapping her in a car seat and driving because you talk more and interact with the environment. And there’s nothing like that little hand reaching up to hold yours as you walk. A good school is important to us, but scores/ratings are everything, and I figure in the walk-ability factor pretty heavily too.
So like they say, it’s “Location Location Location” – well in our case, it’s just “Location (work) and Location (school).”
My biggest reservation about buying near Ocean Air and Sage is that we could be across the street from them but still not get her in. I wish I knew more about how it works and what the chances are – e.g., if we bought at Bridle Run by the models and could walk to either Sage (couple blocks) or Ocean Air (have to cross Carmel Mountain and it would be a bit of a long walk), what would our odds be of getting in to one of those two? Schools out for the holidays, so I can’t go talk to the staff at the schools – no doubt they’d just tell me the process and not make any firm statement about odds.
Seems like this wouldn’t be an issue in UC for schools like Curie and Spreckles – if you bought near one of them and wanted her to go there, there wouldn’t be much doubt? Still not sure if UC is an option given traffic on Genesee and Governor – but hope to test that out soon. Also, wife seems to be leaning heavily towards the area around Sage and Ocean Air anyway. But we’ll see!
Participant[quote=UCGal]…That’s 90 minutes I didn’t have to do other stuff. …[/quote]
We are at the same point in our lives: time with each other and with the kids is a top priority – especially when the kids are young and still want to hang out with us. This is my original post lists wife’s commute as the top location priority, and proximity to a good school the second location priority. At the moment I’m lucky enough to work at home roughly 3 weeks out of 4 (and commute to the airport just once for a week-long trip), but I do think longer term about being close to possibly future local employers (for me technology / software development / project management).
A co-worker reports the commute from the 56 at Camino Del Sur is about 30 minutes. Google puts it at roughly 12 miles and 16 minutes. We drove it (after looking at Pardee’s Terra Mar development and other homes in the area) on a Sunday aftenrnoon and it was 20 minutes, so 30 with rush hour traffic seems right. By contrast, from the area near Sage off Carmel Mountain it was right about 10 minutes. And my wife once test drove it at 7:45am – only traffic was off-ramp from the 5 to Genesee, and she’d be getting off at La Jolla Village so can go right around that traffic with ease.
So let’s assume it’s 20 minutes further out to Camino Del Sur area. That’s 40 minutes a day, 2hr 20mins per week, and roughly 154 hrs/year (figuring 46 weeks just as a rough number) of extra time sitting in a car. She figures to be in this job a long time – say 15 years (maybe more). For 15 years, you are now talking 2310 hours in a car. That’s like working a whole extra year and then some!
What’s worse is the the time that is lost is prime time with the kids for the M-F rat-race. Daughter typically wakes up at 6am, so if you can leave for work at 7:45 (to arrive at 8), you get 1.75 hrs. Bedtime for her is 7:30, so if you get home at 5 (leaving between 4:30-4:45), you get 2.5 hours. If you loose 40 minutes of that (20 each end), you lose about 15% of your time with her. May not seem like much, but you can do a lot in 20 minutes – rather than a race to get ready for the day in the morning, you can read a story or maybe have her “help” cook breakfast (where of course the “help” doubles the time it takes and triples the mess). Working from home most of the time I’ve been fortunate to have those little daily experiences with my daughter over the last 4 years. I can’t put a price on that.
The other big thing I enjoy is walking my daughter to school. It really is different than strapping her in a car seat and driving because you talk more and interact with the environment. And there’s nothing like that little hand reaching up to hold yours as you walk. A good school is important to us, but scores/ratings are everything, and I figure in the walk-ability factor pretty heavily too.
So like they say, it’s “Location Location Location” – well in our case, it’s just “Location (work) and Location (school).”
My biggest reservation about buying near Ocean Air and Sage is that we could be across the street from them but still not get her in. I wish I knew more about how it works and what the chances are – e.g., if we bought at Bridle Run by the models and could walk to either Sage (couple blocks) or Ocean Air (have to cross Carmel Mountain and it would be a bit of a long walk), what would our odds be of getting in to one of those two? Schools out for the holidays, so I can’t go talk to the staff at the schools – no doubt they’d just tell me the process and not make any firm statement about odds.
Seems like this wouldn’t be an issue in UC for schools like Curie and Spreckles – if you bought near one of them and wanted her to go there, there wouldn’t be much doubt? Still not sure if UC is an option given traffic on Genesee and Governor – but hope to test that out soon. Also, wife seems to be leaning heavily towards the area around Sage and Ocean Air anyway. But we’ll see!
Participant[quote=UCGal]…That’s 90 minutes I didn’t have to do other stuff. …[/quote]
We are at the same point in our lives: time with each other and with the kids is a top priority – especially when the kids are young and still want to hang out with us. This is my original post lists wife’s commute as the top location priority, and proximity to a good school the second location priority. At the moment I’m lucky enough to work at home roughly 3 weeks out of 4 (and commute to the airport just once for a week-long trip), but I do think longer term about being close to possibly future local employers (for me technology / software development / project management).
A co-worker reports the commute from the 56 at Camino Del Sur is about 30 minutes. Google puts it at roughly 12 miles and 16 minutes. We drove it (after looking at Pardee’s Terra Mar development and other homes in the area) on a Sunday aftenrnoon and it was 20 minutes, so 30 with rush hour traffic seems right. By contrast, from the area near Sage off Carmel Mountain it was right about 10 minutes. And my wife once test drove it at 7:45am – only traffic was off-ramp from the 5 to Genesee, and she’d be getting off at La Jolla Village so can go right around that traffic with ease.
So let’s assume it’s 20 minutes further out to Camino Del Sur area. That’s 40 minutes a day, 2hr 20mins per week, and roughly 154 hrs/year (figuring 46 weeks just as a rough number) of extra time sitting in a car. She figures to be in this job a long time – say 15 years (maybe more). For 15 years, you are now talking 2310 hours in a car. That’s like working a whole extra year and then some!
What’s worse is the the time that is lost is prime time with the kids for the M-F rat-race. Daughter typically wakes up at 6am, so if you can leave for work at 7:45 (to arrive at 8), you get 1.75 hrs. Bedtime for her is 7:30, so if you get home at 5 (leaving between 4:30-4:45), you get 2.5 hours. If you loose 40 minutes of that (20 each end), you lose about 15% of your time with her. May not seem like much, but you can do a lot in 20 minutes – rather than a race to get ready for the day in the morning, you can read a story or maybe have her “help” cook breakfast (where of course the “help” doubles the time it takes and triples the mess). Working from home most of the time I’ve been fortunate to have those little daily experiences with my daughter over the last 4 years. I can’t put a price on that.
The other big thing I enjoy is walking my daughter to school. It really is different than strapping her in a car seat and driving because you talk more and interact with the environment. And there’s nothing like that little hand reaching up to hold yours as you walk. A good school is important to us, but scores/ratings are everything, and I figure in the walk-ability factor pretty heavily too.
So like they say, it’s “Location Location Location” – well in our case, it’s just “Location (work) and Location (school).”
My biggest reservation about buying near Ocean Air and Sage is that we could be across the street from them but still not get her in. I wish I knew more about how it works and what the chances are – e.g., if we bought at Bridle Run by the models and could walk to either Sage (couple blocks) or Ocean Air (have to cross Carmel Mountain and it would be a bit of a long walk), what would our odds be of getting in to one of those two? Schools out for the holidays, so I can’t go talk to the staff at the schools – no doubt they’d just tell me the process and not make any firm statement about odds.
Seems like this wouldn’t be an issue in UC for schools like Curie and Spreckles – if you bought near one of them and wanted her to go there, there wouldn’t be much doubt? Still not sure if UC is an option given traffic on Genesee and Governor – but hope to test that out soon. Also, wife seems to be leaning heavily towards the area around Sage and Ocean Air anyway. But we’ll see!
Participant[quote=UCGal]…That’s 90 minutes I didn’t have to do other stuff. …[/quote]
We are at the same point in our lives: time with each other and with the kids is a top priority – especially when the kids are young and still want to hang out with us. This is my original post lists wife’s commute as the top location priority, and proximity to a good school the second location priority. At the moment I’m lucky enough to work at home roughly 3 weeks out of 4 (and commute to the airport just once for a week-long trip), but I do think longer term about being close to possibly future local employers (for me technology / software development / project management).
A co-worker reports the commute from the 56 at Camino Del Sur is about 30 minutes. Google puts it at roughly 12 miles and 16 minutes. We drove it (after looking at Pardee’s Terra Mar development and other homes in the area) on a Sunday aftenrnoon and it was 20 minutes, so 30 with rush hour traffic seems right. By contrast, from the area near Sage off Carmel Mountain it was right about 10 minutes. And my wife once test drove it at 7:45am – only traffic was off-ramp from the 5 to Genesee, and she’d be getting off at La Jolla Village so can go right around that traffic with ease.
So let’s assume it’s 20 minutes further out to Camino Del Sur area. That’s 40 minutes a day, 2hr 20mins per week, and roughly 154 hrs/year (figuring 46 weeks just as a rough number) of extra time sitting in a car. She figures to be in this job a long time – say 15 years (maybe more). For 15 years, you are now talking 2310 hours in a car. That’s like working a whole extra year and then some!
What’s worse is the the time that is lost is prime time with the kids for the M-F rat-race. Daughter typically wakes up at 6am, so if you can leave for work at 7:45 (to arrive at 8), you get 1.75 hrs. Bedtime for her is 7:30, so if you get home at 5 (leaving between 4:30-4:45), you get 2.5 hours. If you loose 40 minutes of that (20 each end), you lose about 15% of your time with her. May not seem like much, but you can do a lot in 20 minutes – rather than a race to get ready for the day in the morning, you can read a story or maybe have her “help” cook breakfast (where of course the “help” doubles the time it takes and triples the mess). Working from home most of the time I’ve been fortunate to have those little daily experiences with my daughter over the last 4 years. I can’t put a price on that.
The other big thing I enjoy is walking my daughter to school. It really is different than strapping her in a car seat and driving because you talk more and interact with the environment. And there’s nothing like that little hand reaching up to hold yours as you walk. A good school is important to us, but scores/ratings are everything, and I figure in the walk-ability factor pretty heavily too.
So like they say, it’s “Location Location Location” – well in our case, it’s just “Location (work) and Location (school).”
My biggest reservation about buying near Ocean Air and Sage is that we could be across the street from them but still not get her in. I wish I knew more about how it works and what the chances are – e.g., if we bought at Bridle Run by the models and could walk to either Sage (couple blocks) or Ocean Air (have to cross Carmel Mountain and it would be a bit of a long walk), what would our odds be of getting in to one of those two? Schools out for the holidays, so I can’t go talk to the staff at the schools – no doubt they’d just tell me the process and not make any firm statement about odds.
Seems like this wouldn’t be an issue in UC for schools like Curie and Spreckles – if you bought near one of them and wanted her to go there, there wouldn’t be much doubt? Still not sure if UC is an option given traffic on Genesee and Governor – but hope to test that out soon. Also, wife seems to be leaning heavily towards the area around Sage and Ocean Air anyway. But we’ll see!
Participant[quote=UCGal]…That’s 90 minutes I didn’t have to do other stuff. …[/quote]
We are at the same point in our lives: time with each other and with the kids is a top priority – especially when the kids are young and still want to hang out with us. This is my original post lists wife’s commute as the top location priority, and proximity to a good school the second location priority. At the moment I’m lucky enough to work at home roughly 3 weeks out of 4 (and commute to the airport just once for a week-long trip), but I do think longer term about being close to possibly future local employers (for me technology / software development / project management).
A co-worker reports the commute from the 56 at Camino Del Sur is about 30 minutes. Google puts it at roughly 12 miles and 16 minutes. We drove it (after looking at Pardee’s Terra Mar development and other homes in the area) on a Sunday aftenrnoon and it was 20 minutes, so 30 with rush hour traffic seems right. By contrast, from the area near Sage off Carmel Mountain it was right about 10 minutes. And my wife once test drove it at 7:45am – only traffic was off-ramp from the 5 to Genesee, and she’d be getting off at La Jolla Village so can go right around that traffic with ease.
So let’s assume it’s 20 minutes further out to Camino Del Sur area. That’s 40 minutes a day, 2hr 20mins per week, and roughly 154 hrs/year (figuring 46 weeks just as a rough number) of extra time sitting in a car. She figures to be in this job a long time – say 15 years (maybe more). For 15 years, you are now talking 2310 hours in a car. That’s like working a whole extra year and then some!
What’s worse is the the time that is lost is prime time with the kids for the M-F rat-race. Daughter typically wakes up at 6am, so if you can leave for work at 7:45 (to arrive at 8), you get 1.75 hrs. Bedtime for her is 7:30, so if you get home at 5 (leaving between 4:30-4:45), you get 2.5 hours. If you loose 40 minutes of that (20 each end), you lose about 15% of your time with her. May not seem like much, but you can do a lot in 20 minutes – rather than a race to get ready for the day in the morning, you can read a story or maybe have her “help” cook breakfast (where of course the “help” doubles the time it takes and triples the mess). Working from home most of the time I’ve been fortunate to have those little daily experiences with my daughter over the last 4 years. I can’t put a price on that.
The other big thing I enjoy is walking my daughter to school. It really is different than strapping her in a car seat and driving because you talk more and interact with the environment. And there’s nothing like that little hand reaching up to hold yours as you walk. A good school is important to us, but scores/ratings are everything, and I figure in the walk-ability factor pretty heavily too.
So like they say, it’s “Location Location Location” – well in our case, it’s just “Location (work) and Location (school).”
My biggest reservation about buying near Ocean Air and Sage is that we could be across the street from them but still not get her in. I wish I knew more about how it works and what the chances are – e.g., if we bought at Bridle Run by the models and could walk to either Sage (couple blocks) or Ocean Air (have to cross Carmel Mountain and it would be a bit of a long walk), what would our odds be of getting in to one of those two? Schools out for the holidays, so I can’t go talk to the staff at the schools – no doubt they’d just tell me the process and not make any firm statement about odds.
Seems like this wouldn’t be an issue in UC for schools like Curie and Spreckles – if you bought near one of them and wanted her to go there, there wouldn’t be much doubt? Still not sure if UC is an option given traffic on Genesee and Governor – but hope to test that out soon. Also, wife seems to be leaning heavily towards the area around Sage and Ocean Air anyway. But we’ll see!
Participant[quote=bearishgurl]…I just posted links to 5 br’s that had great views (the smallest home/link has small secondary bedrooms but a great view thru Rose Cyn). You mentioned sitting 40 hours a week at home in front of a computer and that is what I do. Fortunately, I have a large private backyard and garden to look at all day! …[/quote]
I did check out the photos of the views from the one on Condon – it does look nice! The Radcliffe listing also claims to have views (photos don’t show it off that well though). I do want to position my desk so that I can look up from my screen and see something other than the wall of my neighbor’s house.
My homework is to check these out as well as SV, and also to test drive the commute my wife would have at realistic times (I think I once got stuck at rush hour trying to get up Genesee to the Governor intersection and it was awful – but I think there might be alternates).
Participant[quote=bearishgurl]…I just posted links to 5 br’s that had great views (the smallest home/link has small secondary bedrooms but a great view thru Rose Cyn). You mentioned sitting 40 hours a week at home in front of a computer and that is what I do. Fortunately, I have a large private backyard and garden to look at all day! …[/quote]
I did check out the photos of the views from the one on Condon – it does look nice! The Radcliffe listing also claims to have views (photos don’t show it off that well though). I do want to position my desk so that I can look up from my screen and see something other than the wall of my neighbor’s house.
My homework is to check these out as well as SV, and also to test drive the commute my wife would have at realistic times (I think I once got stuck at rush hour trying to get up Genesee to the Governor intersection and it was awful – but I think there might be alternates).
Participant[quote=bearishgurl]…I just posted links to 5 br’s that had great views (the smallest home/link has small secondary bedrooms but a great view thru Rose Cyn). You mentioned sitting 40 hours a week at home in front of a computer and that is what I do. Fortunately, I have a large private backyard and garden to look at all day! …[/quote]
I did check out the photos of the views from the one on Condon – it does look nice! The Radcliffe listing also claims to have views (photos don’t show it off that well though). I do want to position my desk so that I can look up from my screen and see something other than the wall of my neighbor’s house.
My homework is to check these out as well as SV, and also to test drive the commute my wife would have at realistic times (I think I once got stuck at rush hour trying to get up Genesee to the Governor intersection and it was awful – but I think there might be alternates).
Participant[quote=bearishgurl]…I just posted links to 5 br’s that had great views (the smallest home/link has small secondary bedrooms but a great view thru Rose Cyn). You mentioned sitting 40 hours a week at home in front of a computer and that is what I do. Fortunately, I have a large private backyard and garden to look at all day! …[/quote]
I did check out the photos of the views from the one on Condon – it does look nice! The Radcliffe listing also claims to have views (photos don’t show it off that well though). I do want to position my desk so that I can look up from my screen and see something other than the wall of my neighbor’s house.
My homework is to check these out as well as SV, and also to test drive the commute my wife would have at realistic times (I think I once got stuck at rush hour trying to get up Genesee to the Governor intersection and it was awful – but I think there might be alternates).
Participant[quote=bearishgurl]…I just posted links to 5 br’s that had great views (the smallest home/link has small secondary bedrooms but a great view thru Rose Cyn). You mentioned sitting 40 hours a week at home in front of a computer and that is what I do. Fortunately, I have a large private backyard and garden to look at all day! …[/quote]
I did check out the photos of the views from the one on Condon – it does look nice! The Radcliffe listing also claims to have views (photos don’t show it off that well though). I do want to position my desk so that I can look up from my screen and see something other than the wall of my neighbor’s house.
My homework is to check these out as well as SV, and also to test drive the commute my wife would have at realistic times (I think I once got stuck at rush hour trying to get up Genesee to the Governor intersection and it was awful – but I think there might be alternates).
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