Recent content by Mandy

Can any adult make sense out of this? What about our 13 year old? Sure we do need to educate our kids to embrace and respect their peers regardless of their sexual orientation. But this scientifically unproven method of teaching the kids is just wrong in all dimentions.

Objective evidences such as below are there for you to ignore and get upset and mortified after a fact. So exercise your right and ask your middle school to show you every single slide, pictures, video clips and materials to be shown to your 7th graders before it?s too late. Another thing I...

Yes, this will be done to your 7th graders, not just high schoolers in Irvine starting next month. I support CA Healthy Youth Act wholeheartedly and absolutely welcome the change to include LGBTQ in the school sex ed. My purpose of the starting this conversation was by no means to oppose the new...

Has anyone heard of the new sex ed curriculum adopted by IUSD, ?Teen Talk?? All IUSD middle school students must take this progressive sex Ed over 12 sessions now (with Opt-Out option?) Some conservative groups are participating ?Sit-Out? campaign to oppose this new curriculum tomorrow.  I...

Not the same location. Worse. Can be convenient for those who are geographically challenged that it's close to the spectrum, but that's about it. Homes in LA are basically looking down on Barcelona. Just because it's in South Irvine, ain't gonna be Coastal homes calling for the same premium as...

Homeless shelters nowadays mean gang, drugs, prostituion and all sorts of crazies unfortunately. Help the gazilion  existing shelters dispersed around the county. But no drug dealing in our kids' school ground! This is ridiculous and almost poking at a town occupied by a high percentage of...

No need to defend my hood against bitter/angry peeps here because neither do they live in SG or can buy in OH. "We all know..." You mean your family or you all in this board? Who are you exactly referring to? OH is a very nice community. But nobody knows whether it's going to succeed or fail as...

SG was a value village in retrospect. Not at the time. And more so not anymore.  What accommodates family growth if having townhomes to 3500sq+ single homes doesn't? Its sales driving force, the school will hold the home values high up for a long while.  We're very excited for the new principal...

Of course. Good to hear from a bunch of the anonymous with a common interest (Irvine RE) though.  I can't trade my house with any others cuz we can walk to a great school for the next 10 years.  So can you from Sausalito!  :)  You Irvine parent will burn any $$ for your kids.

Better to ask which builder one has bought and his/her ratings. Can't really answer cuz I never bought 20 of these builders. Kinda mediocre for IP but I think it's better than my friend's Van Daele home (not on the list).

I haven't been to OH and I live in SG.  Have been to Sausalito.  Small lots for the price tags, but very nice and functional floor plans.  It is a bit closer to the landfill within SG, but further than homes in PS. and far enough to not really worry about long-term health hazards as living next...

Oh PM me the secret plz? Another anxious mom here. I wanted to sue IP for their false advertisement on "walk to award-winning sg elem.." when I heard the word lottery!!

So sorry to hear... if you don't like the 2nd option they offer, just move on. hope that wasn't the only list you were on though. I was really upset when sales people in CV accidentally put my priority date as a few days later which made me miss the Phase 1. Then everything I didn't care for...

These are Mendocino tracts in North Park built in 2001, not the Mendocino in SG. And Plan 1 in SG is nice if you don't need a downstairs BR. Adding a BR costs only 3K.

Hello, I just caught up on the thread. I posted before how I wished I'd have waited for the PP was released. And that was mainly for the bigger lot size for the buck. Now as I'm looking at my beautiful new house in SG, I am glad we bought our SG house. Having gone through home-shopping for...