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This is the real estate development equivalent of “jumping the shark” - a future Irvine ghetto

What a scary place to live

I remember going to the opening of Chillers - always got the Suicide. Kind of sad our kids won’t get that young 20s experience we had - different times

there was a super lurky place there called Blue Moon Saloon I recall - same crowd as Cassidy’s in MB on Sepulveda

Total golden age - Belmont Shore back then too. Even the Maxwells in Irvine went off.

Did Harry O’s replace Pork Browns on Highland? RB Red O punched below its weight IMO - we went to the MDR RO for the MNF HH spread (remember when that was a big deal?) and Friday night meat market and the Huntington Harbor RO for reggae Sundays. The only place in King Harbor I hung out at was...

My post-USC South Bay years were 89-92 - pre-Sharkeys. 12th Street in MB was the spot with all the girls flocking there for the Frohoff brothers - lots of pharmaceuticals. Besties in HB had a rocking club upstairs and Sunsets and SnortCenter for reggae Sundays. Lots of cheap meals at El T. Hoops...

PV is great and all but a PITA to get in and out of and now it’s as Asian as Irvine. MB was always elitist even back in the 80s but I like the mix of restaurants and walking to the beach and it’s easy in and out. Plus who doesn’t love sitting on the roof at El Tarasco.

Outside of Manhattan Beach or South Pasadena I would never buy property and live anywhere in LA County - those 2 towns are so uniformly nice and accessible I can make an exception.

Jim Bianco noted today on Bloomberg the cutting cycle that began in Sept 2024 has now resulted in the largest increase in Treasury yields since the 80s when rates were at 14%. There is serious pain coming for the OC RE market, especially Irvine and even more so NB as pricing became severely...

We have a new Argentine place in LN called Tierra del Fuego - in the same shopping center as Mameya Coffee (from Kobe JP) and trendy Japanese bakery Okayama Kobo and Avila’s El Ranchito.

My parents live in old Racquet Club which was originally zoned for IHS but now after the Northwood development districts into Northwood. Good for values in that old non-HOA neighborhood

My friend on Balboa Island has a similar cart. Both of you guys need to be wary of rising sea levels! Another friend lives in Bighorn out in the desert and everyone there was super tricked out carts that go really fast - lots of accidents behind those gates.

I got an AC quote for my MIL’s house from an Argentine guy. I don’t think he’s in the Irvine market.

They also hunted down a gal in HB that stole $1000 of Ulta merch. IPD is out to show they’re not nearly as incompetent as Newport Beach PD.