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I lived in SO CAL for 48 years..I seen Crown Valley Parkway when it was NOTHIN but rollin hills of grass. Laguna when the Orginal Greeter was on the street wavin at everybody. When I was growin up our neighbors would buy a beach shack on Balboa Island every summer and build a duplex on it. The neighbors across the street owned a coupla cottages on the Beach in Laguna, which they would rent out in the summer. I remember looking at brand new houses in Huntington Harbor with its own boat dock for under 100K. Art by the guys who are in the Irvine museum today. So I seen CA when it was PARADISE on earth. Orange Groves and the smell of Orange Blossoms as far as the eye could see. Today its all changed.

Of course when I talked to the guys who grew up in CA before the war, they said the same thing that after the war CA went to the dogs. So I guess its all a matter of perspective.

Like I said the TASTE level in Newport is about ZERO...I guess if U start callin ***** good, long enough, people will start to believe its good. Then again its what U got to compare it to as well.