Kudos to Anaheim Hills (Huntington Beach, Garden Grove: foreclosure, home, safe area)

[YLresident]

Originally Posted by Texasturkey

How about the freeway commute from Yorba Linda to Irvine M-F morning. Is that a joke? A chore? Is it the OC crunch? What do you think?

Minus the toll road... about 60min to Irvine starting work at 8am and 90min getting off at 5pm IF you use Jamboree. Less time each way using the 55/91, Tustin exit for West YL, Weir Canyon for East YL.

Used to drive every day to work to UCI from YL (Rose/Imperial).

[anaheim_hills_is_a_joke]

Really nice place to live. Just check out these fabulous links. Nice to know that the whole thing will be in a pile at the bottom of the valleys after a few good rains.

http://articles.latimes.com/2005/feb/06/local/me-slide6 - Slide Dooms $2.5-Million Home in Anaheim Hills - Los Angeles Times"

http://www.ocregister.com/ocr/sections/local/local/article_400632.php - "News: North: Anaheim Hills house on verge of collapsing - OCRegister.com"

http://anaheim-landslide.com/index.htm - "Anaheim Landslide Disaster next to Disneyland and the Anaheim Angels -- Anaheim Hills Landslide Update"

http://anaheim-landslide.com/letter24.htm - "Letters to the Editor #20"

http://anaheim-landslide.com/diatom.htm - "It Expands Violently..."

http://anaheim-landslide.com/morewells.htm - "5 More Landslide Wells Rushed Online..."

http://anaheim-landslide.com/photogal/widemap1.htm - "Anaheim Hills Landslide Update"

[Swingsinger]

(People in Newport are much younger and funner!) That was my favorite quote, too, especially being a teacher) FYI, it's fun, more fun and the most fun. I love Newport Beach and I did live there at one time. But that was in my 20's because yes, the people there are very YOUNG and they stay that way until they are OLD. But I still LOVE NB and have friends that have beachfront properties there and when I go it is to visit them. I do NOT want to live there with the traffic, the tourists, the plastic people and the people who think they are better than everyone else. (Not all of them) Recently, I met a young boy actor in our grocery store who lives in our community. (AH) When I recognized him I made eye contact with his mother to see if it was cool that I say hello to him. The mother and I talked for 15 minutes in the middle of the aisle about his career and it was like we had known each other for years. I cannot imagine this happening in LA or NB, where I often see celebrities. I moved to Anaheim Hills 7 years ago and I agree with a previous post that it is the BEST community in Orange County. We were happy to pay extra for our home to live here. We have no desire to live in the "flatlands" because as soon as we experienced the hills and the views we were hooked. So, we saved a little longer, bought the view, and got great weather (it's 10 degrees cooler than Yorba Linda). We have thousands of hummingbirds, red-tailed hawks, raccoons, quail and other little critters which remind me that I live on EARTH. I look at trees, hills and birds when I look out every window. When I read, I'm on my back patio with only the tops of other houses and the foothills of Yorba Linda to enjoy. My coastal friends say it's too hot where we are and it's true but we have (only) two, maybe three, months of warmer weather than the beach area, but then we have the entire winter to be able to be outside while every one near the coast is cold and under clouds. The schools are amazing, it's clean, and when I saw graffiti, it was gone the next day. Our neighboring city, Yorba Linda, doesn't even have a police station because the crime is so low, they "share" their force with Brea. Newport it amazing, but I love coming home to Anaheim Hills. I don't want to put any other place down (although I guess I did already with NB, but it was my experience) everyone has a favorite place to live and when I hear their reasons, they make perfect sense. I just wanted to give my two cents.

[missionhome]

Swingsinger,
Could you add your photos to the "Pictures of Orange County" sticky thread so they remain there for all to see? Great job and glad you love Anaheim Hills.

[Swingsinger]

Anaheim Hills is just another name for Corona? I lived both places. The only one who believes that is the person who wrote it. Sorry, no comparison.

[ocexpo]

Originally Posted by anaheim_hills_is_a_joke

Really nice place to live. Just check out these fabulous links. Nice to know that the whole thing will be in a pile at the bottom of the valleys after a few good rains.

http://articles.latimes.com/2005/feb/06/local/me-slide6 - Slide Dooms $2.5-Million Home in Anaheim Hills - Los Angeles Times"

http://www.ocregister.com/ocr/sections/local/local/article_400632.php - "News: North: Anaheim Hills house on verge of collapsing - OCRegister.com"

http://anaheim-landslide.com/index.htm - "Anaheim Landslide Disaster next to Disneyland and the Anaheim Angels -- Anaheim Hills Landslide Update"

http://anaheim-landslide.com/letter24.htm - "Letters to the Editor #20"

http://anaheim-landslide.com/diatom.htm - "It Expands Violently..."

http://anaheim-landslide.com/morewells.htm - "5 More Landslide Wells Rushed Online..."

http://anaheim-landslide.com/photogal/widemap1.htm - "Anaheim Hills Landslide Update"

There was a Landslide in Laguna Beach....do you realize that? Laguna Niguel had one too. Hilly areas (including my beloved Newport) is at risk for a landslide as well.

Saying "Anaheim Hills is Corona" is completely bogus....considering it is the 2nd wealthiest place in OC based on income (Orange County, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) and its southern neighbor, Villa Park, is the wealthiest. People need to realize that the beach is not "where all the wealth" is...it is just where all the TV cameras happen to be. Take a look at that list, of the top 10 wealthiest places in the county, only TWO touch the beach, and of the top 5, Laguna Beach is the ONLY one that touches the beach.

I sometimes despise my beach neighbors because they think OC is theirs, and that the rest of the county is crap....but little do they know that places like Coto De Caza, Anaheim Hills, and Villa Park are more uniformally wealthy than they are.

And FYI....some people (like me) do not enjoy looking at the "concrete" city that Newport Beach has become. They actually want land, space, and trees like inland communities have, a commodity that NB lacks severely.

[pootie562]

I understand that people love Anaheim Hills, Yorba Linda and etc, but is it worth living there knowing that natural disasters like fires and landslides happen almost every year? I know that an earthquake can happen mostly everywhere in California, but it just does not make sense to put your homes and lives in danger.

[ocexpo]

Originally Posted by pootie562

I understand that people love Anaheim Hills, Yorba Linda and etc, but is it worth living there knowing that natural disasters like fires and landslides happen almost every year? I know that an earthquake can happen mostly everywhere in California, but it just does not make sense to put your homes and lives in danger.

Do you know how real a tsunami threat is, especially for low lying Huntington Beach and Balboa Island? Do you know that there is only one way to get off any of those islands in Newport, and in a tsunami warning, only a select few will even be able to get off the islands via ferry? Threats are everywhere. We deal with it and move on. This is the first time in over 20 years that even a single house has burned in Anaheim Hills.

[Coldjensens]

Anaheim hills has a lot of older homes. Many were built int he 1930s -1950s. They have been there for 50 years or more and are not going anywhere. It seems like most of the problem homes were built in the 1970s-1990s. The good land was all used up so they started trying to stabilize the riskier property. They did not alwyas do so well.

Anaheim hills is nice beacue the older homes have more architectural variety, higher quality construction 9in many cases), larger lots, and well developed trees.

[ocexpo]

Originally Posted by Coldjensens

Anaheim hills has a lot of older homes. Many were built int he 1930s -1950s. They have been there for 50 years or more and are not going anywhere. It seems like most of the problem homes were built in the 1970s-1990s. The good land was all used up so they started trying to stabilize the riskier property. They did not alwyas do so well.

Anaheim hills is nice beacue the older homes have more architectural variety, higher quality construction 9in many cases), larger lots, and well developed trees.

I don't know what homes were built in 1930? The oldest homes are the ones between SR91 and Santa Ana Canyon Road built in 1975. Anaheim maybe, but definately not Anaheim Hills. Anaheim Hills was developed as a master planned development starting in the 1970's.