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Old 02-07-2007, 11:22 PM
 
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Rancho Palos Verdes is a nice area, lots of nice houses, but really...just houses. Like someone else said...if you want to go to the movies, or the beach, or pretty much anywhere you have to drive downhill to some other city. I stay in San Pedro which isnt as expensive and there's alot more activites.
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Old 02-08-2007, 09:50 PM
 
Location: Cincinnati
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Default Exclusive, Nice, Quiet

My uncle, aunt and grandmother live up there. It's a little antiseptic for my taste but that's why people like it. Great weather and great views. Hellishly expensive. Great if you can afford it. Far from everything.
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Old 02-10-2007, 11:24 PM
 
Location: South Bay
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I remember when some of what they call RPV today was called San Pedro. Sometime in the last decade (maybe less), the area west of Western Ave was reclassified as RPV. It used to considered San Pedro; I think it was done to boost RPV school attendance (there wasn't a lot of turn around of population for a lot of years, creating a non-school children age demographic). Having said that, you can find opportunities to live in "RPV" when it once wasn't as feasible.
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Old 02-11-2007, 03:19 PM
 
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Rancho Palos Verdes - As someone wrote earlier, it borders San Pedro. I lived in San Pedro for 21 years. At that time it RPV was actually San Pedro. I walked to junior high (Datson Jr) in RPV. RPV is much nicer now than San Pedro is. You kinda want to stay away from the downtown area. At least I don't like it anymore. I don't live there anymore, but do come to visit yearly as I still have family there. RPV is quite costly to live there.
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Old 01-16-2013, 11:00 AM
 
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Rancho Palos Verdes offers breathtaking views; beautiful moments in nature; and, normal size houses. I lived in Redondo and remember watching the millionaires play with their kids in the street for lack of a yard. There is an area on the penisula that shares the life but has a San Pedro zip code making buying a beautiful home possible. The South Shores area of San Pedro is within walking distance to the water; boasts full on ocean views; and older homes once owned, and I guess now owned by San Pedro's elite. Home to Congresswoman Janice Hahn, and other notables (like myself), South Shores is one of those hidden gems discovered through family ties; knowledgeable realtors, or really good luck.
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Old 01-16-2013, 11:09 AM
 
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Rancho Palos Verdes has three options for nightlife. You can head to the Redondo/Hermosa area and rub elbows with beautiful people; you can go to downtown San Pedro and enjoy a night of piracy and debachery, ay mate!; or you can spend a quiet evening at home. I have done all three and each was equally enjoyable. wait, wait, if you haven't hung out at Terranea Resort's bar/band area, do that people. That place is to die for, but since you're not in downtown San Pedro, you will probably live. joking! Downtown San Pedro is not that bad, ok it is, but if you have mace/boxcutter you will be ok. Seriously, go there on a weekday. This is a port town and to expect harvard students working on their thesis over a beer, you won't find that. You will find a lot of honest, hardworking people who.. you will find piracy. lol.
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Old 01-17-2013, 11:00 PM
 
Location: Boulder Creek, CA
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Rancho Palos Verdes has three options for nightlife. You can head to the Redondo/Hermosa area and rub elbows with beautiful people; you can go to downtown San Pedro and enjoy a night of piracy and debachery, ay mate!; or you can spend a quiet evening at home. I have done all three and each was equally enjoyable. wait, wait, if you haven't hung out at Terranea Resort's bar/band area, do that people. That place is to die for, but since you're not in downtown San Pedro, you will probably live. joking! Downtown San Pedro is not that bad, ok it is, but if you have mace/boxcutter you will be ok. Seriously, go there on a weekday. This is a port town and to expect harvard students working on their thesis over a beer, you won't find that. You will find a lot of honest, hardworking people who.. you will find piracy. lol.
Have you been to the Trump National Golf Club? Driven by it a bunch of times (along with Terranea), but haven't been down in it yet. All we know is that the greens fees are pretty, uh, "impressive".

And we miss Marineland
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Old 01-18-2013, 07:40 AM
 
Location: Where they serve real ale.
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The area is extremely nice. My grandparents used to live there and they bought their place in the 1950's and lived there until my grandfather finally died in the late 1990's.
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Old 01-20-2013, 02:00 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles, Ca
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No disrespect to RPV, but what's really the appeal for those under 40 or 45?

-It seems like with the increase in traffic in LA in the last 10-15 years (especially), the commute anywhere else in LA would be a negative.

-It's very exclusive, but there are other exclusive areas in LA closer to more "action" (like malibu).

It does offer breathtaking views, but it seems very isolated. What's the breakdown of the professionals that live there?
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Old 01-22-2013, 03:52 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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Beautiful but too far from what I love most about LA and usually in those types of neighborhoods you run into a lot of neurosis and self-importance. I love the beaches and etc., I couldn't live there unless I was old and resolved to no longer venture out to see the rest of the city.
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