Trace,
I am not offended by your post. It is not that I "hope" zillions" of Asians will move here, they are already here and growing at a very fast pace. There is a huge shortage of new construction to keep up with the population growth at this time. 14% appreciation in the Atlanta metro is unheard of in Atlanta metro. I already saw this coming 7 years ago. Asians are a small factor. When I first moved here 2 years ago, there was so much dirt in my immediately surrounding. Large corporations are building on this empty dirt. So the Asians are here first, then the large corporations came next which means jobs and growth.
Trace, you should know me by now via cyber space for 6 years now through IHB. I am not a man driven by money, but a man driven by passion. God owns everything i have and I am simply the manager of what he has given me.
Koreans are not the largest asian ethnic group that holds the prime locations in JC, but we all know that the Chinese holds the most prime real estate locations in Irvine aka Turtle Rock and 92603 zip codes. You know what i find crazy.. is the poor Asians in Irvine who have no choice but to purchase a $1M home built on a landfill, a 3bed home in Columbus Grove, or a hole in the wall townhome built in 1974 for $650k, thinking that there is a no better life out there.
Johns Creek's city name does not sound cool to you as there is no brand recognition to you: Like Palo Alto, La Jolla, San Clemente, and maybe even Irvine. It never even made it to the Money Magazine's top 100 best places to live wit Carmel, IN as #1. This public press makes me happy as JC is still below the radar. Johns Creek is not some hick city in the south that you may be envisioning, but a true, authentic, emerging city.
IHO, you asked me if threw a dart in the U.S. Map and it hit Johns Creek and I decided to move here. You want to hear the real story? You actually may find this story to be funny, but actually I was praying one day in 2010 and the Lord lead me to a passage in Genesis 12 : 1. The Lord had said to Panda, " Leave your country, your people, and your father's households and go to the land I will show you." So I drew a line with a black pen on a U.S. Map from Chicago to Irvine, but the Lord drew a new line from Chicago to Johns Creek.... and I said.. OK, Johns Creek it is. The next morning, I told Ms. Panda, we are not moving to Irvine, we are moving to Johns Creek.
I'm sure there are other areas that are similar to Irvine circa 1997... it can't be just JC... so my question stands... why JC? No friends, no relatives in that area... there had to be some other factors that made you choose there.
If those are personal or top secret, that's fine... but part of me thinks it has to do with some cultural choices... maybe work... Panda is so mysterious.
I think Baby Irvine is being serious when he said he chose John's Creek because of the demographics, and because he hopes zillions of Asians will move there, bump up the housing prices, and he will make lots of $$$ as a landlord/house flipper/sugar plantation owner/whatever.
I find it crazy that we have a 7-page-long thread on this random town in Georgia that nobody cares about. Sorry, Baby Irvine...you have proved to me that John's Creek is an upscale place with many Koreans and country clubs, but...so what. I like to learn about other places but I'm bored with John's Creek.
What John's Creek actually needs, imo, is a name upgrade. John's Creek sounds like a tiny hick town, and it reminds me of Dawson's Creek. I think a cooler, more prestigious-sounding name would improve JC's image.
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