yea but why would you pay additional taxes for a "decent" public school? i seriously don't understand why people would pay such a premium for a public school. Sure, portola high is new and the facilities might be the state of the art compared to other schools but how much of a benefit does that improve your kids education? do you need new facilities to teach math/english/science/history/etc? You don't.
You're better off living near the school and using your friends/families address in Irvine.
If Irvine catches you, you're kicked out of the district, if you move back to an Irvine address, you're blacklisted. How they enforce this or how true it is I don't know, but heard this from an admin who used to work in the Irvine school district so must be some truth to it
It's more likely that it's a threat/deterrent for those that live in Irvine and want to send their kids to another IUSD school that they are not zoned to with the possibility of getting caught and then kicked out of the district, so you can't even go to your home school anymore even though you live in Irvine.