Who live in Anaheim or close to Orange County?

[eville]

I had a good interview today with a firm that wants me to manager their Anaheim Office. As a Northern California native, what do I need to know about Anaheim?
I'll be traveling down next week to meet the staff, etc.
I guess a cruise to the Crest could be in order....

[6'9"Witha69]

Anaheim. Just inside the "Orange Curtain". Home of the Angels. They are NOT the LA Angels. If you are flying go to John Wayne airport.

Mr. Rupp knows more

[eville]

I've been there before, I'll actually be flying in to San Diego and out of The John Wayne.
You're out in the IE. Smog capitol of the world.

[6'9"Witha69]

I've been there before, I'll actually be flying in to San Diego and out of The John Wayne.
You're out in the IE. Smog capitol of the world.
LA is smog capital. We are the valley of the dirt people.

[41565 chevelle]

I live in Orange County and Anaheim has its good and bad. It offers a lot, has some idiot areas and great areas.... Orange County is a great area!!!

[Steve1968LS2]

I had a good interview today with a firm that wants me to manager their Anaheim Office. As a Northern California native, what do I need to know about Anaheim?
I'll be traveling down next week to meet the staff, etc.
I guess a cruise to the Crest could be in order....

I live in Anaheim Hills.. an offshoot of Anaheim.

So welcome to the neighborhood.. Hey, you have a Camaro.. I will keep you in mind for stories.. :)

[Damn True]

Stripmalls and AL ball.

[Twentyover]

OC-Land of the homeowners association nazis. If you end up living there, you may want to live in an older neighborhood, where tthere tends to be a more relaxed attitude about what you keep in your back yard.

Wife lives in Garden Grove, developed in the mi-50's. In some areas, lot sizes are larger (1350 sq ft huse on 12,000 sq ft lot.)

Guess the question is, what are you asking? What's the crime rate in Anaheim? Housing costs? best place to live? Anaheim is a bedroom community in a bedroom county. With Disneyland.

[eville]

We'd be looking for a nicer area to live in. Two kids so schools are important. I'd prefer it to be somewhere cyclist friendly and near good mountain biking.
My office would be in Anaheim near the 91/55. I would not want to commute a major distance.
A large lot sounds nice, but expensive. Older houses are fine, especially when they have character.

[Twentyover]

Older- Anaheim, Anaheim Hills, Villa Park, Orange has a cool old timey downtown, Yorba Linda, stay away from the beach cities- an ocean ads a zero to the cost of the house.

Cyclist friendly- move down south to Irvine, El Toro, Rancho Santa Marguerita(sp). Further south, drive will get tough.

You want to run counter traffic flow- when i lived in garden grove, i worked in S. Irvine, a 22 mile commute. Tokk 18 minutes when i got called in at 0430 Sunday morning; took 55 minutes the next day @ 0700. I ran counter to traffic. The same commute reversed from Irvine to GG would take another 35 minutes Monday morning

[6'9"Witha69]

Whatever you do, don't live where you have to take the 91 West in the A.M. or East in the P.M.!!

[SoCal Cruzer]

Go just north of Anaheim to Fullerton. Good Schools and a cool downtown district. Just minutes to Anaheim which has it's good and bad areas, it's a large city. Fullerton in just north of the 91 Fwy and you can take surface street. and 6'9"witha69 is right about the 91 traffic.

[79-TA]

OC-Land of the homeowners association nazis. If you end up living there, you may want to live in an older neighborhood, where tthere tends to be a more relaxed attitude about what you keep in your back yard.

Wife lives in Garden Grove, developed in the mi-50's. In some areas, lot sizes are larger (1350 sq ft huse on 12,000 sq ft lot.)

Guess the question is, what are you asking? What's the crime rate in Anaheim? Housing costs? best place to live? Anaheim is a bedroom community in a bedroom county. With Disneyland.

Yea, Garden Grove!

My advice is to live as near to the coast as is financially practical. The further you get toward the inland empire the worse the weather gets. What's a beatiful day at Calstate Long Beach is a scorcher at Calstate Fullerton. How far you are from the ocean and its breeze makes all the difference. Then again, none of the North county people I know ever seem to really realize how comparitively bad their weather is.

Fwiw, the 91 east is absolutely terrible after 8 AM. The 22 East holds out a little longer, but ultimately gets busy about the same time. Going west in the evening, I've had much better luck with the 22 than the 91.

Other than that, just check out the neighborhood and make sure you have good freeway access. Older plots can have smaller houses, but larger yards. Oh yea, and make sure you have plenty of parking space for your automotive projects.

[eville]

Well is looks like we are heading down this weekend for a recon of the area...
Anything specific we should check out?

[Twentyover]

See if Cars and Coffe is happening down in Irvne this weekend. Or theDonut derelicts at Magnolia and Adams Saturday (early saturday) in Surf City

[79-TA]

^ seconded

Cars and Coffee (except when the crew moves up to staff the Monterey Historics) is every Saturday. The best times to see cars there are from 6:30 to 9:00 AM. Do yourself a favor and cruise PCH a bit before or after the show.
http://www.cars-and-coffee.com/index.html

The Donut Derelicts have a similar early morning schedule.



As far as what would be pretty near your work location, check out the Marconi Museum sometime. They ask that you call before your visit to make sure that the facility isn't hosting some sort of private event on the day you plan to trip.

http://www.marconimuseum.org/

[CarPlayLB]

I moved from NorCal to Long Beach about 5 years ago. The perception of SoCal is mis-leading. In Anaheim the air is good...nice on shore breeze moves all the bad air to the IE!
I travel East on the 91 every morning from right off the 405/605 area...I leave at 6:30 to be to work at 7 ...no big deal. Take a look at South Long Beach ...I am a 5 iron away from the OC, 5 minutes from the beach, and some of the better schools in the state! I have an 11 yo and daughter turned 16 today
PM if you want to talk
FYI ...car stuff every day of the week down here!

[eville]

Well I accepted the position and start on Monday. I'll be "in transition" for 3-4 months til I have the family and car down there.

So far we like Yorba Linda, Anaheim Hills and Costa Mesa because it's close to the beach yet still affordable.

We'll keep looking....

[Nessumsar]

I would stay away from Yorba Linda, or any city based on the side of a hill! My wife's aunt moved to Yorba Linda 1.5 years ago; since then she has been evacuated for a fire, then a mudslide (because of the fire). With how little rain we get down here, it makes for very dry brush, and fires are a very common occurrence. Then right after the fire, the "rainy" season hits causing mudslides.

I live in Long Beach, right off of the 405, near the 710. I would look into parts of Huntington Beach, and Garden Grove as well. They may be a little more out of the way; but I would take closer to the beach, and the weather that comes with it any day.

[CarPlayLB]

Have the family check out Seal Beach, or Rossmoor...both very nice communities. ...and remember, real estate is a bit more pricey here than up North!