Possible relocation to OC due to job opportunity

[dan92870]

It all depends on your budget, right now you can get a good deal if your looking to buy a home. I would also suggest Placentia, I grew up there. It right in the middle of Fullerton, Brea, Anaheim and Yorba Linds.

The commute from South OC is not so bad, I currently commute from Lake Forest. Your probably should anticipate traffic anywhere in live in OC.

[boi2socal]

Agreed with above post. Placentia is an excellent price alternative to the popular communities of Brea, Yorba Linda and Anaheim Hills. The Placentia-Yorba Linda School District is a highly sought after school district. The city is convenient to the 55, 57 and 91 Freeways.

[b2thebest]

Thank you so much for the good information. We started looking for a house in La Palma (near Oxford school), Placentia, Brea, and Anaheim Hills. Can you give us any advice regarding La Palma if you know anything about the city?

Thank you again,

[boi2socal]

La Palma was recently rated in some magazine as a "best place" to live. Not really sure how it warrants that simply because it is only a bedroom community. Meaning it is basically just homes and nothing else. But it is a nice community made mostly of tract homes. It is fairly convenient for those commuting to LA or Long Beach. It could be considered the nicest in that area (Buena Park, Anaheim, Cypress, Cerritos).

[socal359]

I would choose Mission Viejo over any of the others but I am biased. Growing up in southern OC you have a different feeling about the northern cities. I do like some parts of brea and Anaheim Hills though. I have been in construction (new home) for the past 20 or so years and right now it is bad. Around Sept. it came to a screeching halt for us and has been dead ever sence. On a positive note it will bounce back, there are plans for huge developments but it may be well into 2010 before we are going full steam again. Good luck to you I hope everything works out well for you.

[YLresident]

Originally Posted by boi2socal

Agreed with above post. Placentia is an excellent price alternative to the popular communities of Brea, Yorba Linda and Anaheim Hills. The Placentia-Yorba Linda School District is a highly sought after school district. The city is convenient to the 55, 57 and 91 Freeways.

PYLUSD has great schools--I attended El Dorado and thrived in their honors program and fabulous arts programs. Their band was invited to the 2000 Olympics to play in the opening ceremony and the Rose Parade not too long after. I enjoyed 4 wonderful years in choir (I'm sure high school just wouldn't have been the same without it), and their drama program was really great, too! Each program was so popular they had about 200 people... and it wasn't crammed or anything (several levels of band/choir/drama, so 4 or 5 different classes).

Athletics were really great for a number of sports there (their varsity girls' volleyball coach, Craig Tefertiller, is top-notch) and they have plenty of on-campus student organizations. They also seem to have a pretty good film production class/organization, but I'm not so familiar with what new neat things EDHS has picked up since I graduated in 2000. I can definitely say it was a great school, though.

I've heard similar good things about Esperanza... can't say that I care much for Valencia personally, but it is the tech school for the district, I believe, so their honors program-at the very least-should be pretty stellar. They've got a nice little theater, too. ^_^