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Old 03-18-2010, 11:06 AM
 
Location: Mission Viejo, CA / San Rafael, CA
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Buying a home in Irvine even on a good budget ($600k - $700k) is next to impossible. Either you buy a small home built in the 70s with lots of non-permitted additions, or you buy a new home in Woodbury East, and pay $1,200 in Mello-roos, tax, and HOA. Yay!
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Old 03-18-2010, 11:20 AM
 
Location: South Park, San Diego
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If you love, just love suburbia and all it represents-tract after tract of identical houses, numbing garage doors and strip mall parking lots representing much of the street scape, enough overly wide fast streets and clogged freeways to intimidate any pedestrian from attempting to walk anywhere, a repeating motif of national chain stores instead of a real urban downtown center, a place where people represent themselves mainly through the type of vehicle they drive (windows up, cell phones at hand, and no acknowledging anyone else outside of your chariot thank you very much!) absolutely no soul whatsoever -then Irvine and the OC is for you.

Me, I drive as fast as I can to get through that scary county!

You can live in Southern California and don't have to live in Stepford

SOUTH PARK San Diego
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Old 03-18-2010, 11:21 AM
 
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Irvine is not even a real city, there is no city center, and to do anything of substance you have to leave the city (i.e. go to a baseball game/hockey, beach etc).
Except for the beach, you could say the same of almost every city in LA/OC including Laguna Beach.
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Old 03-18-2010, 02:31 PM
 
Location: laguna beach
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Except for the beach, you could say the same of almost every city in LA/OC including Laguna Beach.
Not sure if you have ever been to Laguna but there is definitely a city center....Anaheim, Santa Ana, Huntington Beach etc all have city centers which have historically (and currently) been major activity hubs. Irvine has the Irvine Business District (which is just high density office space) and the Spectrum (Tia Juana's was "Old Irvine") Please explain....
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Old 03-18-2010, 02:48 PM
 
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Why does it upset you so much that Irvine lacks an old part of town with terrible parking, narrow streets, and tourists running between cars? As far as seeing a game or concert, there's only a few places to do that in SoCal so most people have to drive to them regardless of where they live. The same goes for the beach as most people in SoCal don't live at the beach, even if they live in a beach city. What's the difference between driving to the beach from Irvine or inland Newport Beach?
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Old 03-18-2010, 03:13 PM
 
Location: laguna beach
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Upset?!?!? hahaha this is an internet messageboard....This is a discussion....I think you are going off on a tangent but regardless let me take a stab at this...

The difference is if you are living in the "best place" why would you have commute several miles to do anything of substance? The definition of living somewhere that is the "best" is that all the amneties you deem necessary to live your life are at hand. Day after day though I see heavy traffic from Irvine residents crowding the beaches and going out at night in this area.

Whats the difference between Inland Newport Beach and Irvine? I think you answered your own question they are two different cities at two different price points. Same could be said about Santa Ana & Irvine or Costa Mesa & Newport Beach. Two different cities, two different lifestyles.
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Old 03-19-2010, 07:55 PM
 
Location: Denver
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This is a funny conversation. Where else would anyone combinde Costco, Walmart Disneyland and the beach as positives? Or a "short commute" to any of these things as a positive? I am really thinking this is not my kind of place at all.
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Old 03-19-2010, 08:04 PM
 
Location: Denver
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Thre is no ocean in Colorado Springs and you are 4 hours from any good parts of the mtns and there are no rivers, lakes or any sign of water. I lived there. It's a small town with a bunch of nasty Christians driving up and down the freeway. They are nasty because they all drive like the guys in the pickups in OC.
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Old 03-20-2010, 02:59 AM
 
Location: Berkeley, CA
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You can live in Southern California and don't have to live in Stepford

SOUTH PARK San Diego
South park is fake urbanity.

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Old 03-20-2010, 11:17 AM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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"When you visit South Park for Walkabout..."

When did Aussies invade San Diego?
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