joto

DH has been offered a job there. He's not sure whether to take it. It's a little bit of a promotion, and a little bit more money, but not much. The cost of similar houses are a lot more compared to here. We would be willing to downsize a little as long as the house was under 20 years old. The location is near Yorba Linda, so if anyone has experience of living in nearby areas, it would be appreciated. Thanks.

Alan17

I'm in Yorba Linda. Feel free to send me a PM if you've any questions.

Alan

Hotscot

Orange County can be a really nice place to move to. Good parks, restaurants, activities, and near some of the best beaches anywhere.

I moved from Glasgow to Dana Point which is a gorgeous place. Large harbour, healthy living, friendly people.

MarkCowan

I live in Costa Mesa and its a great place to live with great schools and social life. Pricing in Orange County can be expensive compared to other places but your paying for what you get, 5 minutes to the beach, 2 hours to snowboarding. Sunshine and surf.....laid back attitude and lots of great people. We have a British Dominoin Social club and many British bars if you wanted to keep it "Local" - British Football teams, Rugby, Cricket, Darts and more. If you want more info then PM me, mt friends from Bury St Edmunds moved to Yorba Linda a couple of years ago and loved it.

Mark.

MMcD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorba_Linda,_California

Extremely meaningful data
Forewarned is forearmed..... or

Hope that link is helpful

Jerseygirl

Again...it is helpful if you could post the information rather than asking people to PM you...as the information may be helpful to others. Thanks.

MarkCowan

not really - I toally disagree since they are personal friends of mine, and since I am not allowed to point people in the direction of the group we have with these people active in it then I will not just post their names and email addresses to everyone on here. I am more than happy to give people these peoples names privately, hence the reasons for private messaging right? other peoples private details?

rallybug

Did you mean to quote Alan17, rather than MarkCowan?

Jerseygirl

No.

MarkCowan

Good point, pick on one but not the other!!!!

Jerseygirl

It is one thing for someone who is established on the forums to ask another member to PM them...quite another for a new member to do so. Especially when the new member has already broken several Site Rules in a bid to advertise. This is not the only thread that you have asked people to PM you rather than post the information on the forum. If you have issue with my actions as moderator I suggest you abide by Site Rules and contact either myself or Admin.

MarkCowan

brilliant

Alan17

Anyway....

To the OP, if you're considering moving here I'd suggest looking relatively close to where you're working. Traffic sucks pretty much everywhere. YL is relatively expensive, and has a high Quaker population and therefore has no pubs. None. Theres plenty of restaurants and take outs, but the night life is fairly quiet. Good if you have kids, and the schools are excellent. It does get warm in the summer though, the temperatures on Wikipedia are on the low side compared to the last few years. The hills in the background look vaguely like home (Scotland) on a cloudy, misty day as they are right now.
Theres nicer areas around about with fairly good schools and a bit cheaper than YL - Anaheim Hills, Brea, Placentia.
Lots around to see and do, if you're prepared to put up with the drive.

Sue

Just to reiterate, this is a discussion forum so we like to keep the "discussion" in the open so that others can benefit from the info. There's no need to share personal details of others (and we wouldn't ask you to) and to be fair I hope you are not passing along email addresses of other people without their permission.

On a side note, you've got your FB group in your signature, so if people want to check it out they can, no need to keep pushing it ....

Sorry to take this off-topic ... back to the OP's question .....

joto

Thanks for your replies. Still not sure about it all. We would have to have a discussion about it all, but DH's away for a couple of days. We are not getting any younger, and would we want to be saddled with a larger mortgage at this stage in our lives. There is DS to consider as well, as he goes to college here, has a p/t job and a gf. He doesn't want to move, understandably. The traffic situation and pollution would be something to think about as well.

We love where we are at the moment, but we can see the job here possibly coming to an end within the next 2-3 years, so we can either stick it out or move. It's a tough decision whichever way we go.