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    Irvine New construction Homes

    This is correct. The only option for new, close to Irvine that fits your requirements is Ridgewood at Baker Ranch. We had the same requirements and searched for a while.
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    Irvine New construction Homes

    Baker Ranch. Not Irvine, but Close Enough (tm). $800k gets you into Ridgewood. SFR, Driveway, no motor court, ~4k+ lot. No Mello-roos.
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    Baker Ranch in Lake Forest / Foothill Ranch

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    Great Park Neighborhoods

    Marketplace/District/DJ are all solidly North. I guess if you're Tustin/North OC based then that is more central. If you are South OC based, Spectrum is central. Split the difference and call Irvine Center Dr. & Culver intersection the center.
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    Baker Ranch in Lake Forest / Foothill Ranch

    We picked Ridgewood as a nice compromise of new + lot size (vs. Irvine options). It's not too far from either pool - they just dug a pathway to dimension from the interior Ridgewood streets so you don't have to go around the entire street to get to the pool.
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    Great Park Neighborhoods

    This line of reasoning works for Baker Ranch also, I like it.  8)
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    3

    Ah I love seeing the passionate debate about motorcourts (piazzas) and the value of interior courtyards in $2MM homes. Never imagined I'd see these threads back when IHB was a bear-blog.  >:D
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    4

    Yeah I have a feeling the gate is going to make this feel more condo-y than giving the impression of exclusiveness, but I could be wrong.
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    4

    Zerolot/motorcourt, yes?
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    Sales at The Groves in Orchard Hills slowing down?

    You say that like its a bad thing :-)
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    Great Park Neighborhoods

    park itself will be open to all. Individual areas or portions might require pass
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    Irvine Housing Booming

    I believe in the Bay Area, certain bridges allow toll-free access with White (and maybe Green) HOV stickers. Not in SoCal.
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    Where should we raise our family?

    Foothill Ranch, Baker Ranch, and Aliso Viejo are about as far south as you can go and still have an "Irvine centered" lifestyle/POV (work, play, shop, dine, services, etc). For us, Baker Ranch felt the closest to Irvine (especially for Work @ Spectrum), and therefore the premium vs. other South...
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    Additional Cost and Options for New Home Purchase

    You are bk, at least in my mind.  8)
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    Talega 2.0

    The 405 starts in Irvine, but your point still stands
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    Inventory creeping up?

    No one cares about the drought. CA has always been in a drought and always will. Some years the warnings will be more dire, some years less dire. We'll have a big El Nino and get rain and massive floods and everyone will forget the crisis du jour, then repeat in 5-10 years.
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    Small lot SFR versus large lot detached condo

    What are the easements with the detached condo? Shared driveway? Do other houses use a house wall/side as a backyard fence?
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    Broadcom moving to GP

    Which of those are HOA amenities and which are city/park amenities?
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    Broadcom moving to GP

    What neighborhood amenities does FR have? I guess there is the pool, but it's pretty far from most of the homes. What else?
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    Broadcom moving to GP

    Not going to turn this into another defend BR thread, but there are currently only 8 houses in FR > 2000 sqft under $1m. All 8 are 20+ yrs old and in need of upgrades (some more than others). Add on top of that a higher tax rate than BR and the value prop. becomes a little different. To be fair...
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