I think the homes up in the Country @ Diamond Bar tops out around $3 to $4 million, the people living there are roughly comparable to those in Shady Canyon in Irvine. If you go to Newport Beach, you'd find homes upwards in the $10 to $20 million range, but you wouldn't know if the person having breakfast with you there was that wealthy. They wear jeans, walk their dogs in the morning, and go eat at the greasy spoon on PCH like everyone else, except when you suddenly realize the guy must be loaded to live there and have a leisurely life to not work on weekdays.Northamericanguy wrote: Yea, so many people have told me about snoop and that home. Actually, his wife has a home up there. I found out for sure because I rented a storage space in Diamond bar and the worker/owner who lived on site told me snoops wife rented from them as well and sometimes she would come by and drop off or pick up some things. He said her jewelry she would wear was out of this world. I do know snoop takes VERY good care of his wife and children but that she wishes he would stop working and be a homebody.
One other guy had a home up there... The guy Omarion from B2k. He has since sold it from a listing I was looking at. D*m those guys must have had some wild nites with the random LA females up in those hills... Lucky guys!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omarion
Believe it or not I got into real estate and was working with a 20 year veteran and for a treat he was going to take me up in The County for a tour but we never got around to it. We did go in and out of the hills of Bel Air/Brentwood and that was a real treat. My god, if poor people only knew how the rich lived they would REVOLT!!
As far as MT SAC, yep, you're right, it's pretty much a place where people who did not take their grades seriously wind up (I went there myself), but I will admit, a good group of people who go there are quite serious about their studies.
Out of these serious people some chose to save money by doing 2 years at a community collage first, or it's the guys who go into aviation mechanics or the firefighting program. I hung around all these guys and I use to work in the aircraft department in charge of loaning out tools and such.
As far as your parents, that's amazing they thought DB was a drive. My god have they since built up SOCAL. Kid you not, I worked with guys in city of industry and knew guys who worked in LA but LIVED and DROVE to work everyday from Victorville/Barstow area!
My parents were somewhat spoiled from short commutes to work. For the first decade that we lived in CA, we rented apartments that were close to their work, usually no more than 15 mins commute. When it came time to buy their first townhouse, the idea of buying in Irvine or Diamond Bar and having to commute/drive long-distance to work seemed ridiculous. Also, there were no Ranch 99's back then, so we had to live closer to Diho to buy Chinese groceries. My first job at age 16 was pushing shopping carts at Diho for $3.25/hr.
In the 1990s there was one local university that offered better pickings than community colleges, CSU Long Beach had a strong arts department where the male to female gender ratio was lopsided. I seem to recall the arts department had gender ratio as high as 1 male : 3 female for some years. I was attending CSU Fullerton at the time but went to chase skirt at CSULB. There were many girls living at the on-campus dorms, away from parents for the first time, and very liberated. But the dorm's walls were paper thin so you had to go use the "study rooms" in late evenings.
Feel free to reference a specific statement or post if you disagree.well-informed wrote:I don't get how momopi who is one the heavier posters here in happierabroad, is one of the biggest manginas when it comes to AW. Always looking for any excuse to justify their actions. Don't give them the benefit of the doubt just because they have a p***y
My opinion is simple. Men invented stuff like screwdrivers, because it's in our nature to go fix stuff. Women comes home and want to bitch and moan about something, not because she wants the problem fixed, but because she wants attention and sympathy (TLC?). When you try to fix the problems for them, they get upset because it's not what they're looking for. A man is solutions-orientated vs. a women is attention-orientated.
When I see a guy complain endlessly about something & seeking "yes man" responses, I think of feminized men acting like a little b*tch. As a man, you have hands, feet, and your snap-on or craftsman tool set in the garage, so use them. It makes no sense to me that men who dislike or don't date American women waste so much time complaining about it. Get over it and move on. Life is a one way trip to your grave, so use your time wisely -- you're only young once. And when you do make it to greener pastures, use your time to enjoy the greener pastures. A good horse does not turn its head to eat grass that it has already passed.
Non-Anglo women come with its own set of baggage, but this isn't something to be explained, you have to go and experience it yourself. Australia is pretty close to Asia, find an opportunity and go. At 21 you're young and virile, go forth and enjoy what the world has to offer.DaRick wrote: Agreed. He's simply too defensive when it comes to Anglo girls. He hardly ever criticises them directly, even when it is called for (which is quite often). Maybe he is 'happier abroad', but he seems to be quite naive as to the nature of the Anglo woman. He does seem to be much older than I am (I am 21), so I suppose that this is not surprising. Older Anglo-raised men are even more clueless than their younger counterparts on this.
Even if he is definitely not an Anglo woman himself, it is telling how the OP mistook him for one.
Are there a lot of f*cked up American (or any other nationality) girls? Oh ya, but I don't obsess over it like some crazed ex-GF who can't let go. I'm thankful to a country that took my family in and gave us citizenship when we had next to nothing. I'm thankful that I have to worry about eating too much instead of not having enough to eat. I'm thankful that I'm worrying about my next investment property instead of worrying about not having a roof over my head. I'm thankful of all the American (or any other nationality) women who dated me and had put in an effort to try and make the relationship work -- sorry it didn't work out, best of luck to ya, adios muchacha. What's in the past, stays in the past.