Recent content by OCtoSV

Pretty interesting list. Weather doesn’t seem to factor in at all. Also bizarre the only CA listing is Bay Area (both SF and SJC) with the highest avg income and median sale price in the country compared to San Diego with much lower housing cost and great weather. Also interesting that Naples...

Los Al is nice, kind of Mayberry-ish with the best seafood restaurant in the County (Los Al Fish Co). I would choose Rossmoor over most of OC, and so close to so many beaches

A “B” for weather in GA year round is massive grade inflation

The difference in visible police presence between Silicon Valley communities and South OC is stark. Burglaries are widespread in nice areas up there. It’s a problem.

West Hollywood vs Hollywood = night and day

We recently stayed at The London to see Ace Frehley across the street at The Whisky and that part of Sunset Blvd was nice and felt safe. So many cool bars - had the best cocktail of my life replete with gold leaf at the roof top pool bar at The Edition.

UCLA and Cal are cradles of leftist ideology, especially anti-semitism, and will be forever changed after the Trump administration is through with them. By contrast USC saw things heading that way last year with their encampment and called in LAPD to crack heads and forbade the antisemitic...

Definitely - dropped the payment almost 10% so less than 1 year payback for the 0.25 pts

what loan officer would allow that on the application is the question I keep asking. As an aside I just locked a 5.99 30 yr conforming refi on the LN house Martin helped us buy last March at 6.5. 0.25 pts

I’ve mentioned this anecdote before but worth repeating: in the early 90s I played a lot of hoops at Heritage Park, evenings and weekends. Incredible hoops scene - best I’ve ever experienced. Lots of brothers. One Saturday the crowd got huge, with girlfriends and drinking etc. The next morning...

I’m puzzled why anyone but criminals would bemoan the Nat Guard patrolling their streets. I love the heavy OCSD presence in Laguna Niguel. We can even call the non emergency line to have a car without a city permit ticketed if parked in our neighborhood 10pm-6am.

South Asians and White people like Irvine too

That’s preposterous - CA has to get voters to bypass a voter approved commission to vote in a map drawn in secret whereas TX is transparent and unimpeded by any voter - approved commission. The Dems all pushed these commissions over the past 2 decades - a major own-goal. Reality is Obama left...

Newsom is the last practitioner of performative politics. They’re all being swept out to the sea of irrelevance. The TX Constitution DOES NOT explicitly forbid mid decade redistricting, while blue states already shot their gerrymandering load. This ballot prop has zero chance of passing. Dems...

Trump knocked it out of the park with the Kennedy Center inductees. All of them are huge American cultural icons and gifted artists. Hopefully Van Halen makes the cut next year.