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Old 11-08-2007, 10:16 PM
 
Location: long beach,ca
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city comparison
i would like feedback for those who are kind enough to respond
which city would you pick to live in?
palos verdes
huntington beach (seacliff country club)
irvine (woodbury)
my wife and i normally can make fairly quick but correct decision (food, art, investments, etc) but we seem to be having a hard time in picking a city to move to and buy a home.
ANY feedback will greatly be appreciated.
thanks to everyone out there
sincerely
gino and ana
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Old 11-08-2007, 11:37 PM
 
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palos verdes...... no idea.
seacliff... really nice homes built around a pretty old city. Lots of drug users in HB. More fun, more problems.
Woodbury... very new homes in the middle of nowhere. Are you ready to become sterilized by the Irvine community?
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Old 11-09-2007, 08:13 AM
 
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city comparison
i would like feedback for those who are kind enough to respond
which city would you pick to live in?
palos verdes
huntington beach (seacliff country club)
irvine (woodbury)
my wife and i normally can make fairly quick but correct decision (food, art, investments, etc) but we seem to be having a hard time in picking a city to move to and buy a home.
ANY feedback will greatly be appreciated.
thanks to everyone out there
sincerely
gino and ana
PV and Irvine have lots of asians. HB is pretty darn white. All three are good areas. HB has the most to do obviously.
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Old 11-09-2007, 08:26 AM
 
Location: S.E. PDX
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Cool Which City to live in??

Any city in Oregon or Huntington Beach! Look at your commute is my advice.. make that as short as possible. I love the So. Cal beach areas, Dana Point, Laguna, Huntington, Costa Mesa, Malabu...... Lived and loved in all of them. Commute got too crazy for me and I moved to Oregon
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Old 11-09-2007, 04:00 PM
 
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Palos Verdes is very upscale and definently your best option if you can afford it. The town is on a hill, it's a very wealthy area, beautiful scenery. It is a little far from the freeway though.
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Old 11-09-2007, 10:41 PM
 
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PV or HB. Irvine is way too boring and cookie cutter. That said, if you have to commute, live where you will work. The traffic in LA / OC is awful.
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Old 11-10-2007, 12:44 AM
 
Location: right outside your window
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city comparison
palos verdes
huntington beach (seacliff country club)
irvine (woodbury)
Palos Verdes - beautiful, expensive, suburbia, inland
Huntington beach - food, art, pier, Main St., 3 blocks from ocean, young crowd
Irvine - very snooty, mommies with kids everywhere, silicone, self absorbed size 0's, pretty, parks, diverse in races, UCI, food, bars, lots of young 20 something's

If I were you, go to PV
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Old 11-10-2007, 01:12 AM
 
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Palos Verdes - beautiful, expensive, suburbia, inland
How is PV inland?
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Old 11-10-2007, 01:21 AM
 
Location: right outside your window
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How is PV inland?
oops - my bad-was thinking inland empire, or Malibu...I'm tired, time to snooze!
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Old 11-10-2007, 05:25 PM
 
Location: Yorba Linda, CA
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How is PV inland?
I suppose if you drive to the beach it might take a little bit--surely not very long, though. When my family lived in RPV, my brother said he used to trek down to the beach...

We actually sold our little 1960's home there last summer for $900K--all maybe 1400 sq.ft. of it. It was one of the larger lots, though--on the corner of Brookford and something (don't remember). I know you get there from Grand Via Altamira--or some street name along those lines (there was a 7-11 on the corner), but I don't remember much else.

It's a nice area, though--Palos Verdes Estates is just down Grand Via Alta-whatever apiece and you can ogle the multi-million dollar homes and their nice little town.

Palos Verdes Peninsula High School in nearby Rolling Hills Estates scored No. 164 on the 2007 Newsweek list, moving up from 188 in 2006, 176 in 2005, and 94 in 2003.

It really is a nice area, though. Little hard to get to freeways, but still very nice--great views if you buy a home in the right place on the hll. ^_^
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