Lake Forest/Mission Viejo noisy and dangerous (Irvine, Orange: 2014, apartment complexes)

[Surftown831]

Originally Posted by Podo944

A couple of months ago I heard the "ghetto bird" twirling above

Ghetto bird is twirling above my house again right now. I worked from 4am-11am this morning and come home to relax with a loud helicopter hovering RIGHT above my neighborhood

[Surftown831]

Ghetto bird flying over El Toro right now, above the shopping area near home depot.

[Surftown831]

Ghetto bird hovering over the neighborhood again right now. Is this South OC or East LA?

[saibot]

Are you going to post every time a helicopter comes by? I don't know what's up with your neighborhood! I am not very far away and they're not hovering over me.

[jamsifoes]

Originally Posted by saibot

Are you going to post every time a helicopter comes by? I don't know what's up with your neighborhood! I am not very far away and they're not hovering over me.

OP works nights. I have a friend who is in construction and works the grave yard shift. The shift destroyed his circadian rhythm and now he can't sleep with a slightest noise present. The lack of sleep made him irritable and no fun to be around.

[saibot]

Originally Posted by jamsifoes

OP works nights. I have a friend who is in construction and works the grave yard shift. The shift destroyed his circadian rhythm and now he can't sleep with a slightest noise present. The lack of sleep made him irritable and no fun to be around.

I had trouble sleeping for a large part of my adult life, too. The answer? A good pair of earplugs. Totally changed my life for the better. I highly recommend them.

[payutenyodagimas]

i live in Portola Hills and don't see/hear any chopper hovering unlike in Anaheim where no week pass without the chopper hovering our neighborhool

[HarryKerryJr]

Originally Posted by saibot

Yes, the paramedics are always accompanied by a fire truck with sirens blaring here too.

Actually it is the FIRE fighters who are the paramedics and the private ambulance that trails along is their to TRANSPORT ONLY, if necessary (often the ambulance personal assist the Fire paramedics with lifting or gracefully getting a patient out of a small room, etc.). This in an old legacy from LA County's compromise to be the first in the nation to provide PARAMEDIC services. It really was just like on the old TV Show Emergency, but paramedic services ONLY, not transport, and that is because private ambulance companies feared losing lots of money, so the conservatives who dominated the Board back then saw to it the private ambulance companies would NOT oppose the first ever paramedic operations and the private ambulance companies continued to make money.

Now, LA City Fire is both paramedic services AND transport, BUT City Fire is looking to use the LA County Fire model and just provide paramedic services. This is because City Fire paramedics spend so much time WAITING at crowded hospitals and can NOT leave until the patient is officially transferred to the hospital's responsibility and the hospital emergency room is too busy to take the new patient in right away, so lots of waiting and lots of paperwork and WAITING. This has resulted in paramedics tied up in Hospital emergency rooms and NOT out back on the streets for more calls, and the City aint in a mood to add a lot of new paramedics to make up for the wasted time at hospitals. So, in the end with our over run hospital system, LA County's model seems best for today's reality although it seems like inefficiency or waste.

[shrewdestunitmover]

The safest city in Orange County will have to be Irvine. You still get pockets of Mexican neighborhoods / low income housing in Lake Forest and Mission Viejo. It's still relatively safe, but not the safest, but I wouldn't worry about getting mugged or anything. Also, there are more retired folks and senior citizens which might explain the sirens you hear.

[pacific2]

Originally Posted by shrewdestunitmover

The safest city in Orange County will have to be Irvine. You still get pockets of Mexican neighborhoods / low income housing in Lake Forest and Mission Viejo. It's still relatively safe, but not the safest, but I wouldn't worry about getting mugged or anything. Also, there are more retired folks and senior citizens which might explain the sirens you hear.

Irvine is not the safest city in Orange County. Checkout the #2 and #4 spots on this list of California's safest cities. They're in OC and neither is Irvine.
The 50 Safest Cities in California - SafeWise