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    Johns Creek ranks #1 Best Place to Live by U.S. News & World Report

    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...
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    The Asian Population in Irvine in Percentage wise Peaked at 45.6% and then stayed stagnant for the last 15 years. Why?

    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
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    Johns Creek ranks #1 Best Place to Live by U.S. News & World Report

    A “B” for weather in GA year round is massive grade inflation
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    Toyota moving to Texas

    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.
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    Toyota moving to Texas

    West Hollywood vs Hollywood = night and day
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    Toyota moving to Texas

    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.
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    2025 Top Public Colleges & Universities

    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...
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    How low can we go? 30 yr fixed at 3.75% with no fees...

    Definitely - dropped the payment almost 10% so less than 1 year payback for the 0.25 pts
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    How low can we go? 30 yr fixed at 3.75% with no fees...

    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
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    President Trump

    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...
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    President Trump

    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.
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    President Trump

    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...
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    President Trump

    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...
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    President Trump

    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.
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    ICE or EV?

    I didn’t qualify either but FSD is an absolute game changer . Originally I bought my Tesla for performance and comfort but now it’s become my personal autonomous taxi
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    New Gateway Village (next to landfill), between The Summit @ Orchard Hills, Across Stonegate

    Oak Creek if built would have the best location in Irvine. Plus the shopping center rocks especially the Japanese sushi gal at Gelson’s.
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    Real Estate Competition

    A lot of 80s Irvine buyers like my parents were a functioning white flight from LA school districts that were heavily black/latino, which in Pasadena was the original white flight phenomenon after SCOTuS ordered PUSD desegregated in the early 70s. Today less than 30% of Pasadena school age kids...
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    Economy and Climate Change

    Mimics my calculus. Just being within 4 miles of Salt Creek makes me warm and fuzzy every day and no Midwest country club McMansion could replace it.
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    Orchard Hills 4 - "The Summit" Updates

    Irvine Ranch WD has the worst water quality per our plumbers though all of South OC has terrible water quality which leads to pipe corrosion and copper pinhole leaks - you can see the blue residue which we did when we did the PEX repipe and Halo 5 whole house water system after we sprung a leak...
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