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Fumbling: I just searched and found it: topsburger.com. It's worth the trip inland. Grab a couple and go have a picnic at the LA County Arboretum.

Fumbling: There are two locations - 1 in Arcadia off Michillinda and the 210, the other is on Walnut and Allen in Pasadena. There is no better Pastrami anywhere.

Biscuit: I had the opportunity to learn ballroom in high school. Foxtrot, Waltz, Tango, you name it. A blast, plus it came in handy later in life.

In my youth we had a program called MGM -Mentally Gifted Minors. You got your IQ tested sometime ~3rd grade, and if you scored above a certain level (140 I think) you were segregated into the Gifted classes. You had to be in MGM to be in the Gifted class. This was our school district's way of...

moving: I did it right after they were born.

Great thread. This is a topic I spend a lot of time ruminating on. Up here in Silly Valley the high number of foreign parents and high achieveing entrepreneurs lends an ethos to the educational environment where "glory" is going to Stanford and building a successful startup. I found the stated...

If this person is going straight to grad school(i.e. no concern about the best high paying job after undergrad) then focus on going to a school where there is less competition OR grade inflation is ramapant. You are correct about the Ivies and Stanford; they are HELL to get into, but once in...

bk, I graduated in computer engineering from USC. My undergrad experience was overrall incredible, but rocky. Once I managed to gain the right vision of my future (courtesy of some invaluable mentors) all the pieces fell into place. I found the social atmosphere at USC helped develop the right...

bkshopr's advice is the most sound. Determine what makes you truly happy. Personally my life is a continuous feedback loop - I need to be happy personally to be successful professionally, and each begets the other. If you are competitive you likely value professional confirmation through...

AWGEE: Your ode to the virtues of being a grom in the South Bay are 100% accurate. Frohoff and Robinson made a bit of a career out of it for a while. Similar to Slater growing up on a steady diet of Sebastian Inlet. Crappy surf as a grom teaches solid fundamentals. I spent as much time...

green_cactus: Point being that Hermosa was fun for just about everything EXCEPT the surf, which is fairly crappy. The dining selections are fewer but waves much better on the Peninsula in the summer. As for raising a family in Hermosa, that's rolling the dice. Most of the non-Asian kids...

Irvine_Lurker: "Lurking" was actually the term we used to describe our nocturnal and weekend activities back then. Classic board moniker. The South Bay was the best place to be young and single I've ever experienced. The surf was crap but the women, bars and atmosphere blew away OC. We...

My South Bay years were late 80s/early 90s, before the gentrification. Running pier to pier every morning on the strand. Surfing dumpy beachbreak. Hours and hours of pickup 2 man volleyball. Hoops at Valley Park. Anyone remember 12th Street in Manhattan Beach? Reggae Sunday night at Sunsets or...

The lack of highly competitive private schools is actually a huge problem in Orange County. As someone who attended both as a child, and lives in an area with some of the best public schools in Silicon Valley yet chooses to send their kids to private schools, I can offer some perspective...

For sushi, I emphatically recommend UOKO in Lake Forest (strip mall on Rockfield where Captain Cream is). Japanese-owned and staffed, been there since the 70s; ice cold draft Kirin (only nama biru for this soul) and a chef that loves to do omakase. Much more expensive than it looks from outside...

Not 2x, you're right. 50% per the stats I posted. Still, 50% is a big gap. Not sure why, but the major metro areas with large concentrations of corporate jobs show higher avg wages. This is borne out in the stats. Also, look at the FORTUNE article I posted which lends credence to this. The #1...

OCR, look at this link:http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cewqtr.t01.htm It is the avg weekly paycheck for the 392 largest counties in the U.S. Here are the numbers for CA: Alameda, CA.............. 1,139 Contra Costa, CA......... 1,116 Los Angeles, CA...

This articls lends support to the thesis around large centers of high paying professional jobs. Money & Investing Best Cities For Savings Kurt Badenhausen 12.08.07, 3:50 PM ET For two years, we have been hearing about the negative savings rate in this country. Americans spend more...

Gollini, respectfully, you're comparing OC as an entrepreneur-based economy to SIlicon Valley? I thought the Valley defined the statup game and how it's played. What I think you're trying to say is "small-businessman" instead of entreprenur. Entrepreneur makes me think of someone with a...

CK, You must be dreading tax season. I had many friends who did Big 8 (way back then) acct and consulting - all bailed at some point. Talk about a grind of a job. How long until you're up for partner? You mention Google or Cisco yet you're an accounting mgr; what sort of role would you play at...