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Old 05-24-2016, 01:13 PM
 
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After years trying, I finally got approval from my company to transfer to our Calabasas office. My wife and I love the Thousand Oaks area, but we are actually going to look at Beverly Hills just to do something different. We are moving from normal mid-west suburbia. Our budget is $5,000 a month to rent which will get you a duplex in BH or something way nicer in Westlake Village. My question is this. Will those that we meet through our children be friendly and normal? My wife and I are very engaging and make friends everywhere.
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Old 05-24-2016, 01:32 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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I thought you worked online with no office to anchor you?
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Old 05-24-2016, 02:46 PM
 
Location: South Bay
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your budget will be much closer to the median in calabasas/TO compared to BH. and if you'll have to commute to calabasas regularly, that will be a pretty crappy drive.
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Old 05-24-2016, 03:13 PM
 
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Beverly Hills is "friendly" but more so if you're very wealthy and of a certain status/class/interest. You might be, but you might not be. Regardless of all that, you are better off in Thousand Oaks or Westlake Village, because of where your job is. And those areas are arguably more genuinely friendly. The only downside is those areas aren't close to the action of LA but that shouldn't be terribly important to you since you are raising children and working in Calabasas.
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Old 05-24-2016, 11:23 PM
 
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After years trying, I finally got approval from my company to transfer to our Calabasas office. My wife and I love the Thousand Oaks area, but we are actually going to look at Beverly Hills just to do something different. We are moving from normal mid-west suburbia. Our budget is $5,000 a month to rent which will get you a duplex in BH or something way nicer in Westlake Village. My question is this. Will those that we meet through our children be friendly and normal? My wife and I are very engaging and make friends everywhere.
Maybe Beverly Hills adjacent which can be kind of sketchy. Try Culver City or Mar Vista.
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Old 05-25-2016, 12:53 AM
 
Location: West Los Angeles and Rancho Palos Verdes
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Beverly Hills is "friendly" but more so if you're very wealthy and of a certain status/class/interest[...]
/tribe.
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Old 05-25-2016, 05:52 AM
 
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I thought you worked online with no office to anchor you?
Yeah check out his posts over the past three years. Lots of "weve set a deadline and must move to ca in the next three months" posts. Troll. OP, you do realize we can click on "see all posts" and view your history, right? Lol...
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Old 05-25-2016, 06:41 AM
 
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For all you haters, I already do work mostly out of my home, but you are still required to have a base office that you must live close to. If you read my posts, I have been consistent. Unfortunately, I never got approval until now.
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Old 05-25-2016, 12:22 PM
 
Location: TOVCCA
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Family friendly? It's not like kids in Beverly Hills play in the street or head down to the YMCA. People swim in their own pools and workout in their home gyms. BH is fine as long as you are OK with keeping your kids in designer clothes and giving them expensive cars the minute they turn 16.
The status pressure is high in Calabasas and WLV but BH blows them off the map.

And kids have nannies. The nannies socialize and chat with each other about the kids they're watching, no reason for their individual employers (parents) to connect with each other.

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Old 05-25-2016, 09:57 PM
 
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Family friendly? It's not like kids in Beverly Hills play in the street or head down to the YMCA. People swim in their own pools and workout in their home gyms. BH is fine as long as you are OK with keeping your kids in designer clothes and giving them expensive cars the minute they turn 16.
The status pressure is high in Calabasas and WLV but BH blows them off the map.

And kids have nannies. The nannies socialize and chat with each other about the kids they're watching, no reason for their individual employers (parents) to connect with each other.
I think the status is pressure is actually higher in Calabasas, than Beverly Hills. It's such a shame.
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