So one of the richest counties in America has the 2nd highest homeless rate?

[miri]

Originally posted by: Syringer
How is this surprising? Homeless people hang around rich people to beg for money. Why would they beg in poor areas? It's not as if the cost of living in an area affecst them in any way.

well, thats what some would would think, but i have not seen any homeless people in Newport Beach or irvine. And I think Newport Beach is one of the richest cities in America

 

[Staples]

So is there an actual city called Orange County or do the people who live there think they are so important that they just refer to where they live as the county name and not the actual city they live in?

I have always wondered this. I have seen a city on the map of LA called Orange but I don't think that is what Orange County refers to.

 

[Syringer]

Originally posted by: Staples
So is there an actual city called Orange County or do the people who live there think they are so important that they just refer to where they live as the county name and not the actual city they live in?

I have always wondered this. I have seen a city on the map of LA called Orange but I don't think that is what Orange County refers to.

There's a city called Orange, bordering Anaheim..for every instance of "x county" there always exists a city called 'x'.

And since Orange County is simply made of several smaller cities..so it's generally referred to as just the area.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: miri

Originally posted by: Syringer
How is this surprising? Homeless people hang around rich people to beg for money. Why would they beg in poor areas? It's not as if the cost of living in an area affecst them in any way.

well, thats what some would would think, but i have not seen any homeless people in Newport Beach or irvine. And I think Newport Beach is one of the richest cities in America

well its not a single factor. it depends how they are treated as well. doesn't matter if the area is rich if the police are told to crack down on them all the time. in more lax areas like san fran the homeless lobby is strong and the homeless problem has become pretty bad.

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: Syringer

Originally posted by: Staples
So is there an actual city called Orange County or do the people who live there think they are so important that they just refer to where they live as the county name and not the actual city they live in?

I have always wondered this. I have seen a city on the map of LA called Orange but I don't think that is what Orange County refers to.

There's a city called Orange, bordering Anaheim..for every instance of "x county" there always exists a city called 'x'.

And since Orange County is simply made of several smaller cities..I believe the biggest city, Garden Grove, has just 150,000 people.. it's generally referred to as just the area.

Anaheim has less than 150k people?

 

[Juno]

Originally posted by: bennylong

Originally posted by: b0mbrman

Originally posted by: bennylong
If you go by income, Orange County is still around 50th in the country. Wealthy people don't work.

Where did you find the stats for wealth?

http://boston.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2006/03/27/daily20.html

no way, they must have missed out the bergen county from nj.

 

[Syringer]

Originally posted by: b0mbrman

Originally posted by: Syringer

Originally posted by: Staples
So is there an actual city called Orange County or do the people who live there think they are so important that they just refer to where they live as the county name and not the actual city they live in?

I have always wondered this. I have seen a city on the map of LA called Orange but I don't think that is what Orange County refers to.

There's a city called Orange, bordering Anaheim..for every instance of "x county" there always exists a city called 'x'.

And since Orange County is simply made of several smaller cities..I believe the biggest city, Garden Grove, has just 150,000 people.. it's generally referred to as just the area.

Anaheim has only 150k people?

Yeah I just checked, Anaheim has over 300k

 

[DaWhim]

a long winter with alot of snow is the best way to solve this homeless problem.

 

[bennylong]

I thought you guys call yourself "The O.C."

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: ed21x
grew up in Irvine and Laguna Niguel... have yet to see a homeless person. Even up in Costa Mesa/Riverside, there aren't any.

I never saw a homeless person until I moved to Los Angeles in 1990. You're high on crack or you haven't been paying attention if you've never seen a homeless person.

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: DaWhim
a long winter with alot of snow is the best way to solve this homeless problem.

Uh...I'll just deal with half of what's wrong with your statement.

I know of only one occasion of snow in the last couple decades in Orange County

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: bennylong
I thought you guys call yourself "The O.C."

Prior to that show, no one had ever referred to Orange County as "The O.C."

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: b0mbrman

Originally posted by: bennylong
I thought you guys call yourself "The O.C."

Prior to that show, no one had ever referred to Orange County as "The O.C."

QFT. It was always Orange County or the Orange Curtain.

 

[RudeBoie]

There is no wealth without poverty.

 

[miri]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: ed21x
grew up in Irvine and Laguna Niguel... have yet to see a homeless person. Even up in Costa Mesa/Riverside, there aren't any.

I never saw a homeless person until I moved to Los Angeles in 1990. You're high on crack or you haven't been paying attention if you've never seen a homeless person.

come up to newport beach and irvine and show me some homeless people

 

[miniMUNCH]

I used to see lots of homeless people at Newport and Huntington beaches.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Originally posted by: petejk
most likely in anaheim..santa ana... (older towns with more lax local gov's)
if you are hunting...u can lookunder freeway underpasses...

on the bike path (santa ana river one)... a bum ran out from the bushes
and whacked my brother's friend while he was riding with a mattress/blanket of some sort and knocked him off of his bike...

I live in Santa Ana, theres alot. Santa Ana might be the main city of Orange County, but we are the ghettoest

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

Originally posted by: miri

Originally posted by: Syringer
How is this surprising? Homeless people hang around rich people to beg for money. Why would they beg in poor areas? It's not as if the cost of living in an area affecst them in any way.

well, thats what some would would think, but i have not seen any homeless people in Newport Beach or irvine. And I think Newport Beach is one of the richest cities in America

I've been to irvine and I've seen homeless people. Your point is null and void.

 

[everman]

I'm sure the weather around the beach is a good reason for it, not too hot or too cold outside most of the time.

 

[imported_hscorpio]

I've seen bums in huntington beach and I've also seen bums and a hooker in garden grove/stanton. I used to live right by a homeless camp in LA county up at the mouth of the san gabriel river in duarte/azusa. It was on the news recently because the army core of engineers were kicking them out and buldozing the river bed soon. They took news cameras into the camp and I was surprised to see they built decent shelters and had generators powering a TV of all things. I had ridden by on the bike path many times but never even knew the extent of the homeless camp, I only ever saw a blue tarp and the trail leading through the bushes. I still cant believe they had generators and a tv.

 

[foghorn67]

Originally posted by: b0mbrman

Originally posted by: Syringer

Originally posted by: Staples
So is there an actual city called Orange County or do the people who live there think they are so important that they just refer to where they live as the county name and not the actual city they live in?

I have always wondered this. I have seen a city on the map of LA called Orange but I don't think that is what Orange County refers to.

There's a city called Orange, bordering Anaheim..for every instance of "x county" there always exists a city called 'x'.

And since Orange County is simply made of several smaller cities..I believe the biggest city, Garden Grove, has just 150,000 people.. it's generally referred to as just the area.

Anaheim has less than 150k people?

Anaheim has over 250k.

 

[j00fek]

doesnt surprise me

 

[j00fek]

doesnt surprise me