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Old 07-13-2014, 01:29 PM
 
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The only thing worse than dull suburbia is commuting from dull suburbia.
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Old 07-13-2014, 02:42 PM
 
Location: O.C.
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AV has a giant inferiority complex with Irvine. Save for Laguna Beach, folks in Irvine don't give south OC a second thought.
Irvine IS in south OC...
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Old 07-13-2014, 02:44 PM
 
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The only thing worse than dull suburbia is commuting from dull suburbia.
Or paying an extra couple hundred grand for a custom built, non cookie cutter home that is 40 years older and will require much more maintenance.
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Old 07-13-2014, 04:28 PM
 
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Comparing the two, Irvine has exponentially more jobs, is more walkable and bikeable. Irvine has a wide spectrum of villages with varying characteristics. Aliso Viejo is a series of tracts that are hardly distinguishable from one another. It's cul-de-sac city in AV, with curvy street and hills smothered in stucco. Irvine is at least a degree removed from that, with villages designed with walkable grids, commercial cores, and pedestrian access. There's a world class university. An airport adjacent the city. Destination shopping.

Irvine is boring - and truth be told I'd rather be somewhere outside OC - but it's at least designed so that you can truly work/play/live/school there without sitting in traffic or even on a bike / on foot.

So on the spectrum of "dull suburbia," an Aliso Viejo resident commuting to Irvine will be doing the suburban shuffle, sitting in traffic (or paying gobs of toll road $$$) slowly rolling back to a stucco box in a classic suburban landscape. Why not live where you work? Ahh, that's right, because unless you're working for Pacific Life, you're commuting to Irvine.
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AV has a giant inferiority complex with Irvine. Save for Laguna Beach, folks in Irvine don't give south OC a second thought.

Calm down!
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Old 07-13-2014, 04:41 PM
 
Location: Laguna Niguel, Orange County CA
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Calm down!
No kidding. He really has a thing about hating South Oc imagining we live in tiny stucco boxes, that we commute to far away places (since there is no work here) and cannot find a thing to eat.

What if he knew we didn't commute, had it really good here and drive mostly only when we need to visit friends/family, or when want to go to try a new place to eat?

Maybe he doesn't know how close we are to Laguna Beach either.
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Old 07-13-2014, 04:55 PM
 
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South OC=south of the Y.

Never said anything about tiny stucco boxes. I just avoid the 5 at all costs visiting my relatives in south OC and feel terrible for the gridlocked commuters I see every day when driving over or under the 5.
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Old 07-13-2014, 09:27 PM
 
Location: O.C.
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South OC=south of the Y.
Again, learn the geography of where you live. Irvine is part of south OC

Map of South Orange County
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Old 07-13-2014, 10:14 PM
 
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Again, learn the geography of where you live. Irvine is part of south OC

Map of South Orange County
Don't believe everything you read on the internet. That website refers to Costa Mesa as south OC. It's wrong to the point of being laughable.

No one I know in Irvine (wife and I are born and raised) refers to Irvine as being in south OC.
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Old 07-13-2014, 10:24 PM
 
Location: O.C.
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Don't believe everything you read on the internet. That website refers to Costa Mesa as south OC. It's wrong to the point of being laughable.

No one I know in Irvine (wife and I are born and raised) refers to Irvine as being in south OC.
Well this is interesting....you could be right

http://socchamber.com/cities-of-south-orange-county

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Old 07-13-2014, 10:42 PM
 
Location: OC/LA
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Sorry but you don't know more than the people who run this county
ROFL so the completely random website "ocalmanac.com" RUNS the county? How retarded are you?


Here is an actual government agency map: Orange County, California - South OC Watershed Management Area



Guess what's not part of the region? Newport, Costa Mesa, Irvine, etc.
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