I think it would be cool but I'm trying to gauge how much of an interest there is from everyone else. This is pretty common in some other online communities. Our community here at IHB has grown quite a bit over the last year and I've heard ideas like this as well as bumper stickers mentioned before.
<p>LMAO. I must admit, I'd find it hilarious thinking of walking around Irvine Open Houses in a T-Shirt saying: "Irvine, the 7th circle of Real Estate Hell!" Maybe add a Dantesque image of people hunched over marching under of the weight of chains leading back to a pile of pink ticky-tacky boxes of houses.</p>
I'm envisoning a mountain with the height based on house price index of OC 1996-2006 from left to right then you have a cliff and a house in a bubble with the owner on the roof looking down. =3
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gustave_Dore_Inferno_Canto_21.jpg">Here's a public domain painting.</a> Perhaps the winged beasts are the bankers, real estate brokers, loan brokers, and flippers and Dante's guide (Virgil?) is Irvine Renter.
<a href="http://www.artpassions.net/cgi-bin/dore_image.pl?../galleries/dore/inferno2.jpg">Here's</a> a better image of the same.
And <a href="http://www.artpassions.net/cgi-bin/dore_image.pl?../galleries/dore/inferno32.jpg">here's another</a>. Perhaps IR is lamenting the fate of the sheeple and instructing a would be buyer.
<a href="http://www.irvinehousingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/irvine-renter.jpg" set="yes" linkindex="10" title="IrvineRenter"><img align="right" src="http://www.irvinehousingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/irvine-renter.jpg" alt="IrvineRenter" /></a>I have always been partial to the bear I found. I would like a T-shirt with the little bear over the pocket like a logo and the letters IHB large on the back.