PICTURES of ORANGE COUNTY (Huntington Beach, Mission Viejo: college, floors, wealthy)

[missionhome]

Lake Mission Viejo is at its best during summer. All summer long, the lake association holds concerts, movies, shows, etc... at Main Beach. Here are pics from the various concerts from summer 2008.

Residents who own boats cluster near the shore before the concert.


Kina Grannis, a MV resident and CVHS graduate who won the "Crash the Super Bowl" singing contest and appeared on the Super Bowl did an opening act.


Main Beach and the Lawn are literally covered for the concerts




Then the fun starts!




Beating the crowd that will soon pour into the city streets.

[Texasturkey]

Originally Posted by illott

Wow...killer2021, is it really necessary to be so negative? No one wants to see pics of gangs and trash...people want to see pics of what has been posted! And if people are able to live in 800k homes while making 100k incomes, so be it...good for them, their hard work has paid off!

"Success always looks easy to those who weren't around while it was being earned"

Not necessarily hard work. Many people cut corners and depend on dumb luck. Maybe they scratched a winning lottery ticket. They were able to afford one of those multi-million $ homes on a cliff in South OC. There are many well educated people here in OC who are underemployed and can barely make ends meet. Times are tough and with 45 million people living in CA, the competition for high paying careers gets tougher all of the time.

[Think (Freedom)]

Not necessarily hard work. Many people cut corners and depend on dumb luck. Maybe they scratched a winning lottery ticket.

Ok, thats about the craziest comment I've read in a while. How many people do you know that have won the lottery? None I'm sure. My aunt and her husband lived in a $2M home in Huntington Beach, not because of dumb luck, but because she and her husband worked hard to be able to be where they're at now. There's no doubt the California market is one of the toughest in competition, but to say that luck and lottery winnings are why people can afford to live there is insane.

[missionhome]

For parents and families moving to Mission Viejo:

Mission Viejo High School, one of the finest high schools in Orange County. Part of Saddleback Valley Unified School District serving western Mission Viejo and the Dove Canyon neighborhood of Rancho Santa Margarita.







La Paz Middle School serves roughly the same boundaries as Mission Viejo High School and is the feeder school to both MVHS and Laguna Hills High School. Most of Laguna Hills actually attends this school also. Dove Canyon does not attend La Paz Middle, only Mission Viejo High.





Capistrano Valley High School serves eastern, southern, and northeast Mission Viejo and parts of far north San Juan Capistrano. It is part of the Capistrano Unified School District.

[ilikeoc]

Here are a couple pics one is is looking out over YL and OC from Carbon Canyon park the other the the 11th fairway at Alta Vist (Placentia). We're not in Kansas anymore Toto - thank god.

[missionhome]

This is a picture of the expensive Monarch Beach area of the city of Dana Point. Monarch Beach has the decent surfing beach, Salt Creek, and is home to two of the most expensive hotels in the county: The Ritz Carlton Laguna Niguel and the St. Regis Monarch Beach.

Monarch Beach Golf Links and the gated communities of Monarch Beach behind it.


Looking at the affluent community of Ritz Point, located directly above Salt Creek beach with amazing views.


The beach and the Dana Point Headlands being destroyed (I mean developed).

[a1016neo]

Originally Posted by missionhome

This is a picture of the expensive Monarch Beach area of the city of Dana Point. Monarch Beach has the decent surfing beach, Salt Creek, and is home to two of the most expensive hotels in the county: The Ritz Carlton Laguna Niguel and the St. Regis Monarch Beach.

County???? Most likely the STATE! Have you've seen the rates?!?!?!

[missionhome]

Originally Posted by a1016neo

County???? Most likely the STATE! Have you've seen the rates?!?!?!

Yes!!! They very likely could be the most expensive hotels in the state. The Montage in Laguna Beach maybe too. My husband and I had our 18th anniversary dinner at the Ritz Carlton and we about died at the bill. That was our most expensive one ever!

[missionhome]

San Clemente!!!! Orange County's southernmost city and the only one closer to San Diego than Los Angeles. SC features a few miles of beachfront, a state beach and campground, ocean view homes, golf courses, inland suburban developments (Talega), cozy and funky beach shacks, two train stations, great food, and more. Its my favorite beach town in the county.

Across from the pier:


San Clemente pier:


Ole Hanson architecture. These buildings are throughout San Clemente.




Amtrak and Metrolink trains follow the beach. Amtrak continues all the way to San Diego and Metrolink service ends at Ocean Side. Going North, Amtrak continues to Seattle and Metrolink continues to Los Angeles Union Station.


The historic city hall


Developments in the hills have nice ocean views


Downtown San Clemente on Del Mar Street




Rip Curl Surf Center, less than a mile from world famous Trestles Beach


Soon to be the development of Marblehead

[loveCali]

Thank you for the picturesque photos! Terrific!