Recent content by OCtoSV

Problem is the only legitimate private school in OC is Sage Hill and it’s not anywhere in the league of Pasadena Polytechnic or Westridge (for the ladies) or Harvard Westlake or Chadwick or Brentwood School etc. Best option in OC is be a badass at a medium school like Tustin HS or Santa Ana...

CA energy costs will continue to inflate just like Bay Area real estate due to engineered shortages, intentional or not. Builders Remedy projects are being crammed down City Councils up there...

Very expensive - 2 decades of Google RSUs

One little difference: there are 100x the number of $200K+ jobs near Fremont compared to Irvine. I moved back to South OC from San Jose for lifestyle but stil commute for my job because the streets of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties are paved with gold.

Los Gatos is like Newport - where the white people (mostly) live. One of my best friends I made living up there is a local, played QB at LGHS and bought his parent’s single level 4 br pad with a yard and pool In the early 90s in a very sweet prop 13 deal. Lots of those kinds of owners in LG...

Slightly more expensive. Per Gemini: Fremont (Q1 2026): Recent median price per square foot ranges between $850 and $926. Irvine (Q1 2026): Recent median price per square foot ranges between $810 and $832. Fremont has the #1 high school in CA, Mission San Jose.they dropped football years ago...

I tried to search the forums for this but got nowhere. I used an Enrolled Agent for 25 years that retired and I figure this is the best place I know to get a referral. My needs aren’t crazy but I’ve always liked having a professional prepare and submit my return. Thanks forum friends

Corey nailed Hope Hicks too - dude has good taste!

It will only get bad in CA due to gross mismatch of largest population of ICE drivers vs limited gasoline supply - basic economics . I love my EV but you can’t force that choice and we tried subsidizing it and all that did was drive billions in losses for the bozo legacy automakers

CA will see $10/gal gas sometime in the near future - just not enough molecules of gasoline available due to lack of pipelines into CA and refinery closures

OkiDoki is outstanding, especially the zaru soba. Need to try OkiDoki Sushi though we’re well served in LN by Jizake and Hanaka

Try Okinawa

No. I did tons of Baja surf trips in the 80s and after one in the early 90s the atmosphere had changed so much I said never again. I also used to go Guad for biz and the buses full of troops everywhere were a stark reminder. Cancun is a destination for all the cocaine smuggling and has had many...

It takes me very safely up to SJC and back on a routine basis - life changing technology and probably life saving in a couple of instances where cameras saw a hazard I didn’t see initially

For many of us this is a community that we enjoy participating in. I have a similar community on a USC blog. I’m an “old style internet “ guy - Reddit seems so sterile