Very Interesting Irvine Article

Jaci Woods is having trouble getting her neighbors to sign up for her WatchMail crime e-mail alerts. There's simply not enough crime in Irvine to warrant interest in dispatches about car burglaries, purse snatchings and stolen electronics.

Woods and her husband moved to Irvine from Virginia in 1971, the year the fledgling Orange County suburb incorporated, back when just a few thousand families were settling into sparkling new homes surrounded by ranch land. But the real estate broker worried that someday, as Irvine grew, it would succumb to big-city problems: overcrowding, traffic, noise, and escalating crime. But it hasn't.

more at the LA Times...

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Cirque Du Soleil at the Great Park in 2010

This is great news for the Park as well as the Orange County region. This should attract the whole region and bring to the forefront the actual existence of the Great Park to the masses. Kudos to the GP commission for bringing in such a high profile event to the area.

OC Register

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Aliso Viejo and Tustin Make Forbes List

Forbes Magazine's list of America's Top 25 Towns to Live Well landed the City of Tustin a spot at #21 and Aliso Viejo at #16. Factors taken into account included median income, average commute and per capita of small businesses.

more at OC Register...

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