Rich Uncle Skeleton
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I'm moving to the OC soon too, most likely Irvine, Newport Beach, or Costa Mesa. Where's the best Asian food in the area?
Cali gaf, what are some nice places to live out there(orange county area)?
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Probably driving to Garden Grove or Westminster. The Irvine, Newport, CM area has some decent stuff but its either Americanized chains like Pei Wei, or higher end boutique restaurants that cost a lot. If you want authentic, cheap Asian food.. look west.
There's a whole lot to choose from, whether you like Americanized Asian or authentic. Personally, I'm the kind of guy who goes to Pei Wei once a week, but there's a bevy of other options. A place on the Newport coast called Ho Sum Bistro is really good. A place in Costa Mesa called Al Palace also veers toward the more authentic and is quite good. If you don't mind paying a lot, there's a Japanese place on the border of Newport and Irvine called Kitayama which is amazing.Then you have a bunch of places in the heart of Irvine that have super authentic Asian food, where no one there speaks English and nothing on the menu is in English. And there are some places to get Pho too if that's your thing.
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Dr_Boris_Goltz
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Just don't live in the Inland Empire. It's the hicksville of California.
Heh, lot of people here from the Irvine/Tustin area. Kind of surprised, don't usually see people from Tustin online.
$2,000 won't get you something in the nice beach parts unless you want a tiny little 1 bedroom. Beach cities are ridiculously overpriced. Irvine is overpriced. Costa Mesa is hip and more affordable but a bit run down. Santa Ana/Anaheim will get you stabbed/shot at night in the wrong parts. Orange is a little better. Lake Forest is a little less boring than Irvine but also should be cheaper. Tustin is plain but affordable.
My friends were on the Tustin/Irvine bordline and a 2bdr rent was about $1800 a month. Otoh, I had a friend who had a sweet place in Costa Mesa/Newport Beach border for $1200 a month a couple of years ago.
Basically I'd stay out of the more shady parts and look for something you're happy with that's around $1600-2000 a month. Everything isn't all too far from each other thanks to the freeways. You can get to a beach from pretty much anywhere in 30 mins or to a mall or Disneyland.
$2,000 won't get you something in the nice beach parts unless you want a tiny little 1 bedroom. Beach cities are ridiculously overpriced. Irvine is overpriced. Costa Mesa is hip and more affordable but a bit run down. Santa Ana/Anaheim will get you stabbed/shot at night in the wrong parts. Orange is a little better. Lake Forest is a little less boring than Irvine but also should be cheaper. Tustin is plain but affordable.
My friends were on the Tustin/Irvine bordline and a 2bdr rent was about $1800 a month. Otoh, I had a friend who had a sweet place in Costa Mesa/Newport Beach border for $1200 a month a couple of years ago.
Basically I'd stay out of the more shady parts and look for something you're happy with that's around $1600-2000 a month. Everything isn't all too far from each other thanks to the freeways. You can get to a beach from pretty much anywhere in 30 mins or to a mall or Disneyland.
akachan ningen
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Also one of the most boring. There's a lot of nice places in the oc that aren't so boring. I like Fullerton personally.
PlayALLtheGames
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T-shirt fail! It's "Right near the beach...boyeeee!"
As for the OP: 2k in OC will get you a studio.
PseudoKirby
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Stay the hell away from Socal, go to the best part of CA, the SF bay area!
thezerofire
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not necessarily. You can get a two bedroom by UCI for 2k, I'm sure there are a bunch of places for much less around OC too
entremet
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Overpriced to heck, moreso than Southern California and terrible weather.
PseudoKirby
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Honestly the weather is perfect here, its also varied throughout the area, its only SF and the peninsula thats covered in fog 80% of the time.
thezerofire
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and not even recently. today was foggy in the morning but it was the first time in kind of a while
PseudoKirby
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there are plenty of places in the bay where you can hit that 115 Degree weather if you want.
also I never understood the big billboards in San Fran advertising San Diego as a vacation spot.. why not jsut go down to Santa Cruz?
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Ah nice, I was supposed to be c/o 2010/2011 ish but some family stuff came up. Finishing up my last two courses right now
kind of missed the school those 3 years gone. It's so calm and clean haha
BriareosGAF
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A little more Echo Park than Silver Lake, eh? I had heard in the five years since I moved away that Echo Park had gentrified but I didn't see it when I drove through there when I was visiting back in November.
I dunno. I agree Santa Ana was heading in that direction a few years ago, but it feels like the popularity's dying off and downtown/art walk area is losing a lot of the local artists that were helping it grow. Not really sure what's going to happen there.
But I agree it's a lot better than it used to be. Still gotta be careful at night though.
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2014/05/18yo_man_shot_dead_anaheim.php
3 people shot dead over the weekend in Anaheim/Santa Ana. If you look at the crime sites, those two areas are still a little dangerous and I wouldn't really recommend living there.
3 people shot dead over the weekend in Anaheim/Santa Ana. If you look at the crime sites, those two areas are still a little dangerous and I wouldn't really recommend living there.
StopMakingSense
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Its more Sunset and the north of Sunset area that has heavily gentrified. It'll be a bit slower moving down to the actual park area.
rokkerkory
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Best asian food is Garden Grove, OC, etc area. Hands down so many places to try.
As mentioned by others Garden Grove is good. I prefer Japanese and Korean food, so parts of Costa Mesa and random spots all over Irvine/Tustin/Aliso Viejo have good places to eat.
We rent a house in Quail Hill in Irvine after moving from the east coast as well. It's a bit pricy, but the fact that my bf can walk or bike to work is lovely. Cause they aren't kidding about the hellacious rush hour traffic.
Irvine is a bit boring and safe, but we can get to the beach cities like Laguna to eat or hang out easy enough. Sadly renting there is beyond our pay grade, and buying a house would be laughable.
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