WhAT'S IT LIKE TO live in Irvine, CA?

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afasdfasdfas wrote:

Do you feel RICH AF all the time?

oh man it's great. no rules. you can capitalize whatever letters you want!

I feel pretty good living in Irvine. I work on the 16th floor in Fashion Island. I spend slow Fridays like today watching the ocean for hours on end. It's a good life.

Great place to live for many.

Lots of bike trails off the roads where you can go for miles without having to hit a signal or worry about cars. Lot of wildlife areas so lots of dirt trail options. Low crime so can go out and go anywhere anytime of night. Great public schools.

Not a big party place. But if that is what you want you can go down to Newport. The Spectrum provides some night life options.

It doesn't cost as much to live in Irvine than nearby places like Laguna Beach, Corona del Mar, Newport Coast, or Newport Beach. But it does cost more than many places. Inland areas of Irvine can get hot in the summer. Areas closer to the coast stay cooler with the ocean breeze. Overall very good climate.

Bren is the wealthier Donald wrote:

Great place to live for many.

Lots of bike trails off the roads where you can go for miles without having to hit a signal or worry about cars. Lot of wildlife areas so lots of dirt trail options. Low crime so can go out and go anywhere anytime of night. Great public schools.

Not a big party place. But if that is what you want you can go down to Newport. The Spectrum provides some night life options.

It doesn't cost as much to live in Irvine than nearby places like Laguna Beach, Corona del Mar, Newport Coast, or Newport Beach. But it does cost more than many places. Inland areas of Irvine can get hot in the summer. Areas closer to the coast stay cooler with the ocean breeze. Overall very good climate.

Spectacular and dead on synopsis. End of thread.

Irvine is full of libtarrds.

Bren Is The Wealthier Donald wrote up an excellent synopsis.

I would add just a few things:

1. Lots and lots of Chinese, Persians, and 25-year old Middle-eastern males spending their oil-money allowances. I'm not talking descent or heritage, I'm talking about nationals. As in limited-English speaking, American culture and norm ignorant types. If you are not comfortable with multiculturalism, this may not be the town for you. This means, among other things, lots of young males driving high-end fast cars in unsafe manners. The Spectrum outdoor mall is a middle-eastern bazaar on summer nights, filled with hijab and various burqua-like wearing folks. They are tired of being cooped up in their high-density apartment complexes all the time. It is a place just waiting for a vest-wearing suicide bomber incident to happen (See Number 7 below).

2. Tacking on to what was mentioned in Number 1, above, there are a large number of Chinese birthing-tourism companies operating in the City. You will see these Visa-violators in the form of small groups of very pregnant Chinese women walking around who speak and understand next to zero English.

3. Yes, lots of liberals. It is a University town (UCI), and full of retired folk who bought in when it was affordable, and youthful Bernie Sanders supporters.

4. When built out, will be the largest city in Orange County (both in land area and population).

5. There are at least 10 apartment complexes under current construction at all times. There are constantly new complexes coming onto the market. They have approved 1,960 more units for the old Irvine Amphitheater area to become Los Olivos II. They also just approved a coupla weeks ago ANOTHER 1,960 unit complex at the old Travel-Land at Sand Canyon and the I-5. These are slated to be "budget" housing. This a phenomenal exponential increase of population (figure 2-3 additional people and cars on the road for each unit), without any increase in road width, etc. Irvine experiences ridiculously long traffic signals.

6. Apartments run an average of approximately $2,000 per month (give or take a few hundred depending on complex, amenities, size, etc.). You will not find a single family house for under $1 million. Housing ranges from 40 year old neighborhoods around UCI from when the City was founded in 1970-1971, to brand new housing in the north/east areas of the city out in the Portola/Trabuco Canyon areas adjacent to Lake Forest (where they are expanding the local jail, by the way).

7. Irvine may have little day-to-day crime, when there is crime it is news-making crimes. Guys slashing people with samurai swords in grocery stores, bodies being found burned on front yards, Chris Dorner (google him), et cetera.

8. Irvine is centrally located to most of Orange County, and is near John Wayne Airport. There is a mix of educational/residential/commercial (Irvine Co owns 42 strip centers)/ and industrial area.

9. Irvine enjoys a long legacy of deeply corrupt and complex City politics. Please feel free to google and read up on Larry Agran, Beth Krom, Sukhee Kang, the scandals of robbing the Great Park funds (was to become second largest park in the U.S. behind NY's Central Park, now largely new housing and jet-fuel contaminated dirt).

10. Concur with the beautiful (but disappearing and increasingly more crowded) open spaces and the trails throughout all the communities, many connecting with each other.

You should also be wary of those Asian soccer moms driving their suv's hopped up on double late frappechinos. They often cover their hands and face while in the sun. They're either afraid of wrinkles or it's a sublime protest against the white man for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Trump2020OP wrote:

You should also be wary of those Asian soccer moms driving their suv's hopped up on double late frappechinos. They often cover their hands and face while in the sun. They're either afraid of wrinkles or it's a sublime protest against the white man for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Mostly Chinese and Korean. Not a very large Japanese or Vietnamese population. Good number of other Asian continent folk like from India and Pakistan also. Mostly Chinese, Korean, Persian, and various Arabic countries. A growing black and a dwindling white population. At least from my casual observations, FWIW.

Archie, is that you?

Irvine is a master planned community where HOAs have a lot of power. It is clean and very family friendly. The schools are highly regarded and I have heard talk that parents rent apartments just so their kids can attend two of the high schools.

The Irvine Company has a lot of power and owns a lot of land and most if not all of the apartments. The Irvine Company has set aside a lot of land to never be developed so there are many dirt trails to explore.

Each community has a trail system and they are all interconnected. Bommer Canyon and Quail Hill both go into the Laguna Coast Open Space. Shady Canyon connects them. Right in there are the Turtle Rock Trails that the Sierra Club uses for hikes and the Turtle Rock Trails that connect to Bommer Canyon. Then there are the trails in north side of the city Hicks Canyon and the trails at the end of Portola I cannot remember its name that connects to Limestone/Whiting Ranch if you are willing to trespass.

There are three main bike trails that cut across the city. The Mountains to Sea, the San Diego Bike Trail and the Jeffrey Open Space Trail. All three are off the roads and are almost continuous for many miles.

The Irvine Ranch Conservancy puts on all kinds of events from mountain biking to trail runs to yoga to guided interpretative hikes. Most of them are free to the public.

http://letsgooutside.org/activities/

Irvine is a diverse community that has a high percentage of college graduates and high income household.

There are a number of tech companies including Broadcom and Parker Hannifin that are based in Irvine and a number of other companies from Edward Life Sciences, Verizon corporate offices, Allergan, In-n-Out burger corporate offices, Taco Bell corporate offices and many more. A lot of people drive to Irvine to their jobs and have to commute to go back home.

There are two main running groups. Southcoast Road Runners

http://www.roadrunners.org/

And Cal Coast -

http://www.calcoasttrack.com/

There are trail runs put on by different race directors in the Irvine Open Space and Peters Canyon and in neighboring Crystal Cove State Park. There are a lot of road races in the area throughout the year. Compared to Los Angeles, there is a thriving running community.

Any questions, fire away.

Is home of a bottom tier UC school...which still makes it better than public schools in at least 45 other states.

You don't want to get caught out late at night at one of the gang hangouts such as the Spectrum. Nothing worth than teenagers after a sushi bender and then a gaming binge followed by a 3d movie. East Irvine hoodlums up to no good especially after being forced to go to extra college prep classes on the weekends. A savage and merciless bunch. Stay clear.

Does Steve Scott still live there?

San Diego I thunk

ha ha. You gotta stay clear of the pre-med and engineering kids. They are working hard to represent in Irvine.

Meathead wrote:

Archie, is that you?

There are a number of tech companies including Broadcom and Parker Hannifin that are based in Irvine and a number of other companies from Edward Life Sciences, Verizon corporate offices, Allergan, In-n-Out burger corporate offices, Taco Bell corporate offices and many more. A lot of people drive to Irvine to their jobs and have to commute to go back home.

There are two main running groups. Southcoast Road Runners

http://www.roadrunners.org/

And Cal Coast -

http://www.calcoasttrack.com/

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Nope, I'm not Archie. And yes, Cal Coast!! Coach Sumner's group is a great group of easy-going, fun-loving, all-ages and abilities group of runners. Coach was instrumental in founding the OC Marathon (at least the Logo, IIRC), and is always quick to offer suggestions and advice. Summer runs are Shady Cyn/Quail Hill, and other workouts begin at CDM High School and follow the Newport Back Bay loop trail and the San Diego Creek Trail (which runs concurrent with a decent portion of the Mountain-To-Sea trail - a poorly marked and poorly delineated grouping of other trails combined to cover a certain distance from Savi Ranch to Newport Dunes).

roartigers wrote:

Is home of a bottom tier UC school.

Check your rankings, old man.

US News ranks UC Irvine as the 9th best public university in the US.

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/top-public

The Dirty Duck wrote:

roartigers wrote:

Is home of a bottom tier UC school.

Check your rankings, old man.

You put the rube in his place before I could. Should also mention UCI for many years is a top tier bio tech research center.