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    Big Lawnmower is Hurting (Landscaping Upkeep of Estates in the Northeast)

    For Colbert Platinum Members only: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/your-money/04wealth.html?em">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/your-money/04wealth.html?em</a> <em>The average price of a home in Darien was $1.165 million in 2008 and in New Canaan, $1.455 million. Greenwich...
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    Interesting/Amusing Property Finds

    7632 E Santiago Canyon Rd Orange, CA 92869 <em>I pulled up to a house about seven or eight And I yelled to the cabby yo, home smell you later Looked at my kingdom I was finally there To sit on my throne as the FRESH HAWAIIAN FLINTSTONE prince of bel-air</em> <img...
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    What global warming?

    <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/view/">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/view/</a>
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    Straw poll on gay marriage

    Check out the cities that went NO on Prop 8 - Irvine (58% went for Obama), Aliso Viejo (53% Obama), Costa Mesa (52% Obama), Laguna Beach (63% for Obama). (edit: AV and CM went to Obama too) Santa Ana, the city with the most support for Obama (64%), also went overwhelmingly for Prop 8 (60%)...
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    For my own peace of mind Ive decided to drink the IHB kool aid. Y?all win.

    <a href="http://www.ocregister.com/articles/local-results-orange-2208971-county-election">http://www.ocregister.com/articles/local-results-orange-2208971-county-election</a> I'm surprised. As an Obama supporter living in Irvine, I thought I was in the minority. 57.7% Obama, 40.49% McCain...
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    How much will IPO sell his place for?

    <blockquote>Sounds like your insecure about your physique or lack of one. Why else would you feel uncomfortable walking around/being seen with your shirt off? <strong> I?m guessing you don?t hit the beach, pool, or shop at A&F;either.</strong> Follow the Panda for a tune up at the gym...
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    High gas and sprawled-out real estate

    <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/16/suburb.city/index.html">http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/16/suburb.city/index.html</a> <blockquote>Yet Nelson also estimates that in 2025 there will be a surplus of 22 million large-lot homes that will not be left vacant in a suburban wasteland but...
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    What's going into escrow - Irvine and maybe some Tustin too

    That <a href="http://www.redfin.com/CA/Irvine/9-Paso-Robles-92602/home/5770551">9 Paso Robles</a> house that IrvineRenter posted about yesterday? According to Redfin, it's taking backup offers now. That was quick.
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    Ed McMahon May Lose Beverly Hills Home

    Alls I's has to say is: 109 ROOMS ?! 17 BATHROOMS ?! 54,000 sq ft ?! A comment in the ESPN article: "how many butts does he have?" But seriously, that property is worth only 10 mil? That's equivalent to a 6000 sq ft Shady Canyon McMansion.
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    Irresponsible "expert" on Fox News calling Irvine #1 Place to Buy Right Now

    Fox News. They report, you decide (whether they are a "Parade of Propaganda" or a "Festival of Ignorance" or a Star Trek fanboy's wet dream). <object width="325" height="250"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/youtube" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="325"...
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    Interesting/Amusing Property Finds

    <img src="http://i-0.rfimg.us/photo/46/bigphoto/059/S528059_0.jpg" alt="" /> I dare you to find less house (sub 4000ft house) for more money. Yes, it's on the Balboa Peninsula. Big whoop. <a...
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    Almost blood on the streets. Help solve a mystery.

    I didn't know portable basketball hoops could almost bleed. This thread title is tantamount to a RICK ROLL. Also, I'm pretty sure the OCR writer just finished watching The Black Dahlia before writing this article. Let me MAD-LIBize it: "At 8 a.m. Saturday, a crowd had gathered...
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    Coto McMansion Floor Plans recycled in Yorba (Vista del Verde) 8+ years later

    <object width="325" height="250"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/youtube" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="325" height="250"></embed></object> I guess Toll Bros took their "architects" out back and shot them after they churned out these plans in the late 1990s. The Yorba...
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    My best friend is white, and he needs help.

    No offense, but if he IS the "catch" that you make him out to be, he'd already have an Asian or Asian American wife by now. The Asian women outmarriage rates in the US range from 30%-60% <a href="http://www.asian-nation.org/interracial.shtml">depending on ethnic group</a>. Either he is REALLY...
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    Does graduating from a magnet school help you to go to an Ivy league or a UCLA/USC/UCB?

    <em>1) Unless your student was well rounded they had a very slim chance of getting in. He had a student from UNI applying who had the highest gpa possible but no extra curricular activites and he did not get in. </em> Yup, it's true. Actually, schools like Harvard described their ideal...
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    Does graduating from a magnet school help you to go to an Ivy league or a UCLA/USC/UCB?

    <em>If a kid goes to Troy Tech ( A magnet school in Fullerton ranked in Top 25 in USA), does his chances of landing in any ivy league or a USC/UCLA increase? </em>First of all, I'm assuming that you are referring to Troy's Magnet Program, which as far as I know is distinct from their...
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