Here is a proud Blazer fan that works in Irvine (and live a few miles down the road in Mission Viejo). They have a really good baseball team, and a nice stadium that looks out over the Newport "Back Bay".
With two kids going off to college in the next couple of years, I know that to be guaranteed admission to UCI, a California student must attain a 4.01 core GPA (third highest of UC schools). I have hired 5 UCI graduates in Computer Science over the past three years I have lived here, and the schools overall engineering department is the bees knees!
I've tried to get into UCI basketball - but I just can't bring myself to root for any team other than my Blazers!!
CA is supposed to be a rich state, but I make double what I did in Birmingham and my standard of living is maybe only 10% better (well, aside from the fact I can surf every weekend). This place is damned expensive, my rent here is fully 4x my mortgage on my 5 acre homestead by Lake Purdy on 119. 10% sales tax, really high gas taxes and a 9.3% income tax rate. 30 minute commutes to go ten miles. But again, I can ski and surf on the same day in the winter.
So, irrelevant post complete... Go Blazers in all things!
(06-17-2014 10:06 PM)blazers9911 Wrote: You are aware of the fact that California has a slightly higher population than Alabama, correct?