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Thanks BG and Eugene for the info on schools. We’re definitely not limiting ourselves to particular schools based on ratings as we know there’s more to a school than it’s rating. Diversity of the student body is a consideration for us and might actually weigh in favor of a school like Spreckels over the CV schools. We’ve focused on the one area in CV with the three schools because we’ve read/heard they are good (coworker has kids in or have gone through Sage), but also because of the commute factor. So seems like SV and UC may offer a similar combination of good schools and commute.

To everyone that has posted, thanks so much! I know there are strong and varied opinions expressed here. I read many threads in this forum before deciding to post here, so I was ready for that and value it. It’s nice to see people advocating the communities they live in. We want to know what drew people to one community and what keeps them there, or what drove them away from another community.

[yellowS2K]

Thanks BG and Eugene for the info on schools. We’re definitely not limiting ourselves to particular schools based on ratings as we know there’s more to a school than it’s rating. Diversity of the student body is a consideration for us and might actually weigh in favor of a school like Spreckels over the CV schools. We’ve focused on the one area in CV with the three schools because we’ve read/heard they are good (coworker has kids in or have gone through Sage), but also because of the commute factor. So seems like SV and UC may offer a similar combination of good schools and commute.

To everyone that has posted, thanks so much! I know there are strong and varied opinions expressed here. I read many threads in this forum before deciding to post here, so I was ready for that and value it. It’s nice to see people advocating the communities they live in. We want to know what drew people to one community and what keeps them there, or what drove them away from another community.

[yellowS2K]

Thanks BG and Eugene for the info on schools. We’re definitely not limiting ourselves to particular schools based on ratings as we know there’s more to a school than it’s rating. Diversity of the student body is a consideration for us and might actually weigh in favor of a school like Spreckels over the CV schools. We’ve focused on the one area in CV with the three schools because we’ve read/heard they are good (coworker has kids in or have gone through Sage), but also because of the commute factor. So seems like SV and UC may offer a similar combination of good schools and commute.

To everyone that has posted, thanks so much! I know there are strong and varied opinions expressed here. I read many threads in this forum before deciding to post here, so I was ready for that and value it. It’s nice to see people advocating the communities they live in. We want to know what drew people to one community and what keeps them there, or what drove them away from another community.

[yellowS2K]

Thanks BG and Eugene for the info on schools. We’re definitely not limiting ourselves to particular schools based on ratings as we know there’s more to a school than it’s rating. Diversity of the student body is a consideration for us and might actually weigh in favor of a school like Spreckels over the CV schools. We’ve focused on the one area in CV with the three schools because we’ve read/heard they are good (coworker has kids in or have gone through Sage), but also because of the commute factor. So seems like SV and UC may offer a similar combination of good schools and commute.

To everyone that has posted, thanks so much! I know there are strong and varied opinions expressed here. I read many threads in this forum before deciding to post here, so I was ready for that and value it. It’s nice to see people advocating the communities they live in. We want to know what drew people to one community and what keeps them there, or what drove them away from another community.

[yellowS2K]

Thanks BG and Eugene for the info on schools. We’re definitely not limiting ourselves to particular schools based on ratings as we know there’s more to a school than it’s rating. Diversity of the student body is a consideration for us and might actually weigh in favor of a school like Spreckels over the CV schools. We’ve focused on the one area in CV with the three schools because we’ve read/heard they are good (coworker has kids in or have gone through Sage), but also because of the commute factor. So seems like SV and UC may offer a similar combination of good schools and commute.

To everyone that has posted, thanks so much! I know there are strong and varied opinions expressed here. I read many threads in this forum before deciding to post here, so I was ready for that and value it. It’s nice to see people advocating the communities they live in. We want to know what drew people to one community and what keeps them there, or what drove them away from another community.

[yellowS2K]

[quote=AN]Here’s the map to Torrey Hills area: http://goo.gl/maps/HTPN
Here’s the map to Sorrento Valley area:
http://goo.gl/maps/7rEt%5B/quote%5D

Thanks AN – your analysis of the likely traffic (in this and previous posts) to Torrey Hills (and a little further up the hill to Carmel Country Highlands) confirms our expectations and test runs, and nice to know there’s a local streets option too (although she’d be on the southeast side of the campus). We are specifically looking at stuff where she could avoid the 56 altogether.

I did once look for listings in Sorrento Valley to see what came up, but will need to look again.

Getting home for lunch is probably unrealistic no matter where we’d live, so I wouldn’t count that for or against any of the options.

[yellowS2K]

[quote=AN]Here’s the map to Torrey Hills area: http://goo.gl/maps/HTPN
Here’s the map to Sorrento Valley area:
http://goo.gl/maps/7rEt%5B/quote%5D

Thanks AN – your analysis of the likely traffic (in this and previous posts) to Torrey Hills (and a little further up the hill to Carmel Country Highlands) confirms our expectations and test runs, and nice to know there’s a local streets option too (although she’d be on the southeast side of the campus). We are specifically looking at stuff where she could avoid the 56 altogether.

I did once look for listings in Sorrento Valley to see what came up, but will need to look again.

Getting home for lunch is probably unrealistic no matter where we’d live, so I wouldn’t count that for or against any of the options.

[yellowS2K]

[quote=AN]Here’s the map to Torrey Hills area: http://goo.gl/maps/HTPN
Here’s the map to Sorrento Valley area:
http://goo.gl/maps/7rEt%5B/quote%5D

Thanks AN – your analysis of the likely traffic (in this and previous posts) to Torrey Hills (and a little further up the hill to Carmel Country Highlands) confirms our expectations and test runs, and nice to know there’s a local streets option too (although she’d be on the southeast side of the campus). We are specifically looking at stuff where she could avoid the 56 altogether.

I did once look for listings in Sorrento Valley to see what came up, but will need to look again.

Getting home for lunch is probably unrealistic no matter where we’d live, so I wouldn’t count that for or against any of the options.

[yellowS2K]

[quote=AN]Here’s the map to Torrey Hills area: http://goo.gl/maps/HTPN
Here’s the map to Sorrento Valley area:
http://goo.gl/maps/7rEt%5B/quote%5D

Thanks AN – your analysis of the likely traffic (in this and previous posts) to Torrey Hills (and a little further up the hill to Carmel Country Highlands) confirms our expectations and test runs, and nice to know there’s a local streets option too (although she’d be on the southeast side of the campus). We are specifically looking at stuff where she could avoid the 56 altogether.

I did once look for listings in Sorrento Valley to see what came up, but will need to look again.

Getting home for lunch is probably unrealistic no matter where we’d live, so I wouldn’t count that for or against any of the options.

[yellowS2K]

[quote=AN]Here’s the map to Torrey Hills area: http://goo.gl/maps/HTPN
Here’s the map to Sorrento Valley area:
http://goo.gl/maps/7rEt%5B/quote%5D

Thanks AN – your analysis of the likely traffic (in this and previous posts) to Torrey Hills (and a little further up the hill to Carmel Country Highlands) confirms our expectations and test runs, and nice to know there’s a local streets option too (although she’d be on the southeast side of the campus). We are specifically looking at stuff where she could avoid the 56 altogether.

I did once look for listings in Sorrento Valley to see what came up, but will need to look again.

Getting home for lunch is probably unrealistic no matter where we’d live, so I wouldn’t count that for or against any of the options.

[yellowS2K]

We looked at the HOA/MR for Bridle Ridge: MR = $104/month for Plan 2 (the one we are interested in, $95 for the smaller Plan 1), and “budgeted” $114/month for HOA for the “newly established” Bridle Ridge HOA for the 32 homes by the sales models. Not as bad as we’ve seen elsewhere in CV. But bearishgurl’s comment kind of made me stop and think twice: “There’s something wrong with the notion that you will be paying substantial Mello Roos tax for schools your children may never be allowed to attend.” I really don’t know how bad the situation is at Ocean Air, Sage and Torrey Point, but they all three have the same big, scary signs specifically addressed to parents when you pull up in front. Can’t quite make it out on google street view unfortunately, but I recall it reading something like “Attention Parents: This school may be full…” and warns not to assume your child could go there. The sales woman at Carriage Run also said they’d been specifically asked by the schools to not say anything concrete about one’s chances of getting your kid in. Someone even suggested to us that we rent in the area first to see which of the three elementary schools our kid would get into (if any of them) before buying. That seems crazy! One positive of the BR homes by the models is that at least you are roughly between Ocean Air and Sage, so hopefully you’d get into one of those two if you bought there.

[yellowS2K]

We looked at the HOA/MR for Bridle Ridge: MR = $104/month for Plan 2 (the one we are interested in, $95 for the smaller Plan 1), and “budgeted” $114/month for HOA for the “newly established” Bridle Ridge HOA for the 32 homes by the sales models. Not as bad as we’ve seen elsewhere in CV. But bearishgurl’s comment kind of made me stop and think twice: “There’s something wrong with the notion that you will be paying substantial Mello Roos tax for schools your children may never be allowed to attend.” I really don’t know how bad the situation is at Ocean Air, Sage and Torrey Point, but they all three have the same big, scary signs specifically addressed to parents when you pull up in front. Can’t quite make it out on google street view unfortunately, but I recall it reading something like “Attention Parents: This school may be full…” and warns not to assume your child could go there. The sales woman at Carriage Run also said they’d been specifically asked by the schools to not say anything concrete about one’s chances of getting your kid in. Someone even suggested to us that we rent in the area first to see which of the three elementary schools our kid would get into (if any of them) before buying. That seems crazy! One positive of the BR homes by the models is that at least you are roughly between Ocean Air and Sage, so hopefully you’d get into one of those two if you bought there.

[yellowS2K]

We looked at the HOA/MR for Bridle Ridge: MR = $104/month for Plan 2 (the one we are interested in, $95 for the smaller Plan 1), and “budgeted” $114/month for HOA for the “newly established” Bridle Ridge HOA for the 32 homes by the sales models. Not as bad as we’ve seen elsewhere in CV. But bearishgurl’s comment kind of made me stop and think twice: “There’s something wrong with the notion that you will be paying substantial Mello Roos tax for schools your children may never be allowed to attend.” I really don’t know how bad the situation is at Ocean Air, Sage and Torrey Point, but they all three have the same big, scary signs specifically addressed to parents when you pull up in front. Can’t quite make it out on google street view unfortunately, but I recall it reading something like “Attention Parents: This school may be full…” and warns not to assume your child could go there. The sales woman at Carriage Run also said they’d been specifically asked by the schools to not say anything concrete about one’s chances of getting your kid in. Someone even suggested to us that we rent in the area first to see which of the three elementary schools our kid would get into (if any of them) before buying. That seems crazy! One positive of the BR homes by the models is that at least you are roughly between Ocean Air and Sage, so hopefully you’d get into one of those two if you bought there.

[yellowS2K]

We looked at the HOA/MR for Bridle Ridge: MR = $104/month for Plan 2 (the one we are interested in, $95 for the smaller Plan 1), and “budgeted” $114/month for HOA for the “newly established” Bridle Ridge HOA for the 32 homes by the sales models. Not as bad as we’ve seen elsewhere in CV. But bearishgurl’s comment kind of made me stop and think twice: “There’s something wrong with the notion that you will be paying substantial Mello Roos tax for schools your children may never be allowed to attend.” I really don’t know how bad the situation is at Ocean Air, Sage and Torrey Point, but they all three have the same big, scary signs specifically addressed to parents when you pull up in front. Can’t quite make it out on google street view unfortunately, but I recall it reading something like “Attention Parents: This school may be full…” and warns not to assume your child could go there. The sales woman at Carriage Run also said they’d been specifically asked by the schools to not say anything concrete about one’s chances of getting your kid in. Someone even suggested to us that we rent in the area first to see which of the three elementary schools our kid would get into (if any of them) before buying. That seems crazy! One positive of the BR homes by the models is that at least you are roughly between Ocean Air and Sage, so hopefully you’d get into one of those two if you bought there.

[yellowS2K]

We looked at the HOA/MR for Bridle Ridge: MR = $104/month for Plan 2 (the one we are interested in, $95 for the smaller Plan 1), and “budgeted” $114/month for HOA for the “newly established” Bridle Ridge HOA for the 32 homes by the sales models. Not as bad as we’ve seen elsewhere in CV. But bearishgurl’s comment kind of made me stop and think twice: “There’s something wrong with the notion that you will be paying substantial Mello Roos tax for schools your children may never be allowed to attend.” I really don’t know how bad the situation is at Ocean Air, Sage and Torrey Point, but they all three have the same big, scary signs specifically addressed to parents when you pull up in front. Can’t quite make it out on google street view unfortunately, but I recall it reading something like “Attention Parents: This school may be full…” and warns not to assume your child could go there. The sales woman at Carriage Run also said they’d been specifically asked by the schools to not say anything concrete about one’s chances of getting your kid in. Someone even suggested to us that we rent in the area first to see which of the three elementary schools our kid would get into (if any of them) before buying. That seems crazy! One positive of the BR homes by the models is that at least you are roughly between Ocean Air and Sage, so hopefully you’d get into one of those two if you bought there.

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