qwerty said:
Irvine is a brand? Perhaps in China. What a fucking joke. What circles do you run in that people would be impressed by telling them you live in irvine? There are tons of people with money outside of irvine. In every Orange County city.
...where I'm from the people have what we call "Cerritositis". That is, even if they live next to Cerritos (Lakewood) they like to tell people that they live in Cerritos, the center of their universe. If you discuss locations they automatically refer to distance and direction from Cerritos as the center of all creation. Even after graduating from college they want to go back and buy a house there.
In contrast, people I know who grew up in Irvine wanted to move because back when they were growing up in Irvine there was nothing to do here.