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Old 01-08-2019, 09:33 AM
 
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Lmao absolutely not. I'm not an Angels fan nor a hockey fan at all. I don't like Disneyland. And good luck getting to Newport Beach in 20 minutes on a nice weather day. Or for that matter, anywhere you listed in the times you stated. Not happening in Irvine.

I'll take real city living with real city amenities in Sac over a theme park and suburban amenities in Irvine every day of the week.
Jester is only slightly exaggerating this time. It's certainly possible to get from (parts of) Irvine to Disneyland in 25 minutes, or Angels Stadium or Newport Beach in 20 minutes, as long as it is not actually rush hour. I live in Rancho Santa Margarita, which is farther away from these locations than Irvine, and usually allow 30 minutes to Newport Beach and 40 to Disneyland.

Whether you like or want to go to those places is a different question, of course.
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Old 01-08-2019, 09:54 PM
 
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Lmao absolutely not. I'm not an Angels fan nor a hockey fan at all. I don't like Disneyland. And good luck getting to Newport Beach in 20 minutes on a nice weather day. Or for that matter, anywhere you listed in the times you stated. Not happening in Irvine.

I'll take real city living with real city amenities in Sac over a theme park and suburban amenities in Irvine every day of the week.
Irvine actually has better traffic than Sacramento. It's incredibly efficient, especially when it comes to infrastructure.
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Old 01-09-2019, 12:57 AM
 
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Orange County/Irvine rush hour is immensely worse than Sacramentos and lasts hours upon hours longer and is compounded by San Diego area folks moving north while LA folks are moving south and they converge and implode in Irvine! Sacramento rush hour is sort of bad for like 15 minutes, and the whole rush hour is over in an hour.

Try getting to the beach on a summer weekend without spending hours and hours upon hours in traffic in Orange County And don't go anywhere near I-5 by Disneyland or you will sit in traffic and breath all that bad air.
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Old 01-09-2019, 05:09 AM
 
Location: Berkeley, CA
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Average Cost of Home:

Sacramento: $321,900

Irvine: $866,400

I prefer Sacramento.
When houses cost $300K in California, it’s because no one wants to live there. Houses in Riverside, no less, have more demand.
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Old 01-09-2019, 08:07 AM
 
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Try getting to the beach on a summer weekend without spending hours and hours upon hours in traffic in Orange County And don't go anywhere near I-5 by Disneyland or you will sit in traffic and breath all that bad air.
Oh, really. I don't relish going down, say, Laguna Canyon Road from the 5 on a weekend. But I sometimes do it. The drive from my front door to Main Beach takes 30 minutes without traffic. On a hot summer Saturday, it's going to take 60 minutes. Yeah, no fun. But it's not hours and hours and hours, come on.
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Old 01-09-2019, 08:32 AM
 
Location: In the heights
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Jester is only slightly exaggerating this time. It's certainly possible to get from (parts of) Irvine to Disneyland in 25 minutes, or Angels Stadium or Newport Beach in 20 minutes, as long as it is not actually rush hour. I live in Rancho Santa Margarita, which is farther away from these locations than Irvine, and usually allow 30 minutes to Newport Beach and 40 to Disneyland.

Whether you like or want to go to those places is a different question, of course.
My impression has been rush hour has been getting steadily more brutal and longer. I visit the area (including living in actual Irvine proper) once or twice a year on average and the subsequent differences seem kind of notable though perhaps living there makes it more of a slow creep so less noticeable?

One good thing is that the Orange Line on Metrolink is slated to get much higher frequencies, so at least that’s coming up, though Sacramento has a lot more transit improvements on its slate.

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Old 01-09-2019, 09:05 AM
 
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Irvine actually has better traffic than Sacramento. It's incredibly efficient, especially when it comes to infrastructure.
Umm have you actually driven rush hour in Irvine? It's miserable.
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Old 01-09-2019, 10:03 AM
 
Location: where the good looking people are
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Nothing personal, but the girls in Sac are a bit too REDNECK, when compared to OC platinum blondes.
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Old 01-09-2019, 10:11 AM
 
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Nothing personal, but the girls in Sac are a bit too REDNECK, when compared to OC platinum blondes.
I'm not a female, nor blonde, nor redneck. I just think it's disgusting that someone would admit they choose where to live based off of the concentration of blonde white women.
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Old 01-09-2019, 10:16 AM
 
Location: where the good looking people are
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I'm not a female, nor blonde, nor redneck. I just think it's disgusting that someone would admit they choose where to live based off of the concentration of blonde white women.
Well I am sorry you are disgusted. I'll pray that you can come to terms with that.
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