roundcorners
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IndieDev said:
$300,000 is enough...
http://www.redfin.com/CA/Long-Beach/2468-Olive-Ave-90806/home/7573890
Condo above garages - is it loud?
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$300,000 is enough...
http://www.redfin.com/CA/Long-Beach/2468-Olive-Ave-90806/home/7573890
I would pick a fight with anyone who wakes my son up... why do you people have to live like this...?
http://www.bendbulletin.com/article/20120212/NEWS0107/202120341/
http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/...ont-get-enough-sleep-20120213,0,4759777.story
I wonder how these Irvine kids do good in school when they have to live above a garage all their lives...?
no, average to below average folks like us, who just have different priorities... I don't know you but do you have anything against LB? them fightin' words... to me
Totally agree. We also lived in a carriage unit, and I would not do it again. With a little one, it's hard enough to get them to sleep without worrying about them being woken up by someone else's garage. We had two neighbors below us, one that left for work at 5, and one that left for work at 6. I would hear each garage, laying in bed frozen with fear that it would wake up the baby. Sometimes I would be so stressed about it that I would wake up at like 4:57, before the first garage even opened, because somehow in my sleep I realized it was almost time. Anyway, my advice is DON'T DO IT. Who needs that aggravation?
hmmm...i always assumed you were the same person as BK...wonder how many other people thought that as well...
i guess that irked me even more as i used to have a folder on one of my PCs of insightful things BK would share....good to know you 2 arent same person as you are not insightful or helpful
My point was that my son's sleep is VERY important to us and his development. Living in Irvine did become too stressful because of the noise above and the tight living situation. And if my son, gets woken up by some jerk watching concert videos in his garage, who isn't suppose to use his garage as living quarters that I would be pissed!
But who can blame you guys in Irvine; life would be miserable anywhere if you decide to live on top of one another like that..
i would never live in an attached product. right now we rent a house with sideyards, front yard and backyard, a true SFR and the neighbor kid sometimes starts playing an instrument like at 9pm. Unless you own a acre you are going to hear the damn instruments regardless of attached, homes 10ft apart, ect. In the kids defense, he never goes longer than 15-20 minutes.
Roundcorners, you may be taking this more seriously than I do...I realize my little rant about his man cave made it sound worse than it actually is. RKP is right - he can do as he sees fit with his space. I'm just saying having her room over his garage is not the ideal situation. I can live with the occasional early awakening from a nap because my neighbor has to leave. She's a baby and she does wake up early from her naps on occasion. Sometimes it's because of the neighbor, other times it's because the phone rings or because I dropped something near her room or because she peed in her diaper. Stuff happens. "Us people" (or I, specifically) would gladly take the occasional early nap wake up in exchange for clean streets, safety, nice parks, lots of trees, etc. I'd certainly prefer she wake from the neighbor's garage than sirens or big rigs or honking cars that you might hear in a big city. But that's my preference - different strokes for different folks. And I'm not 100% sure yet but I'm pretty certain I won't blow my daughter's chance of doing well in school by living in a home that happens to have a room over someone else's garage. I value her sleep too and make sure she gets her rest.
My folks live in a detached home with space all around the house and I remember hearing the girls next door fighting with each other in their bathroom. It's never perfect. You just have to pick what matters to you most.
$300,000 is enough...
http://www.redfin.com/CA/Long-Beach/2468-Olive-Ave-90806/home/7573890
roundcorners
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crunchycake said:
I would pick a fight with anyone who wakes my son up... why do you people have to live like this...?
http://www.bendbulletin.com/article/20120212/NEWS0107/202120341/
http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/...ont-get-enough-sleep-20120213,0,4759777.story
I wonder how these Irvine kids do good in school when they have to live above a garage all their lives...?
roundcorners
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IndieDev said:
no, average to below average folks like us, who just have different priorities... I don't know you but do you have anything against LB? them fightin' words... to me
IndieDev
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No offense, but that is a very aggressive statement. Fighting is looked down upon by Irvine citizens, but I understand that settling issues with fisticuffs might be standard etiquette in rough 'hoods like Wrong Beach. In Irvine we settle our disagreements by playing Ultimate Frisbee at Bill Barber park.
roundcorners
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Better go back to my Tech forum; RE is still too emotional for me... I already have nights where I get the cold shoulder from the wife regarding RE...
I forgot, in my part of the hood, I can yell at my blue-collar neighbor for his barking puppy at 7am, then bring some beer over and he'll invite me over for a back-yard BBQ while you folks in Irvine live on top of each other and still don't know each other because, you are quietly comparing college degrees, secretly stuffing all that anger, resentment and frustration deep inside and you still fake smile when you bump into them in the shared hallway...
I forgot, in my part of the hood, I can yell at my blue-collar neighbor for his barking puppy at 7am, then bring some beer over and he'll invite me over for a back-yard BBQ while you folks in Irvine live on top of each other and still don't know each other because, you are quietly comparing college degrees, secretly stuffing all that anger, resentment and frustration deep inside and you still fake smile when you bump into them in the shared hallway...
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SoCal78 said:I lived in a carriage unit. The issue is not so much just the garage door as it is getting used to someone else's schedule. The guy who parked below me seemed to work graveyard shift. The slamming car doors would wake me up when he got home. Music pumping loud as he pulled in and out. He would sit there with the car in idle listening to the last couple minutes of his song. Expect to smell exhaust fumes from your window above the parking area. True, this could happen in your own garage - however you choose to live with that person and hopefully they are courteous of you just a little bit. You don't choose to live with your neighbor for better or for worse. Also, you never know what they store in the garage below you - flammable things. Or if they're going to do work on their car. It could be against HOA rules for them to do it but people do anyway. If they work on the car - again, engine may idle inside the parking area. (I know what you're going to say, IHS. Asian men don't work on their cars.Some white men do, though.) Also, my neighbor would remove the car on Saturday nights and turn it into a party hang-out / card room. They'd be hanging in there smoking, drinking, playing music. The noise in the garage echoes. I had to go down once and ask them if they could keep it down a little since it was past 11 p.m. Thankfully, he was super nice about it but not everyone is. I would not live in this type of unit again if I had any other choices.
Totally agree. We also lived in a carriage unit, and I would not do it again. With a little one, it's hard enough to get them to sleep without worrying about them being woken up by someone else's garage. We had two neighbors below us, one that left for work at 5, and one that left for work at 6. I would hear each garage, laying in bed frozen with fear that it would wake up the baby. Sometimes I would be so stressed about it that I would wake up at like 4:57, before the first garage even opened, because somehow in my sleep I realized it was almost time. Anyway, my advice is DON'T DO IT. Who needs that aggravation?
roundcorners
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SoCal78 said:
irvinehomeshopper
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wow, what an honor that you compared me to the legendary bk known for his novel long insightful posts and wisdom. I doubt he is a brown noser like me and my longest post don't even come near to his intro.
roundcorners said:
irvinehomeshopper said:
hmmm...i always assumed you were the same person as BK...wonder how many other people thought that as well...
i guess that irked me even more as i used to have a folder on one of my PCs of insightful things BK would share....good to know you 2 arent same person as you are not insightful or helpful
irvinehomeowner
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No... you guys are equal... totally... like twins... or clones.irvinehomeshopper said:
roundcorners
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qwerty said:
My point was that my son's sleep is VERY important to us and his development. Living in Irvine did become too stressful because of the noise above and the tight living situation. And if my son, gets woken up by some jerk watching concert videos in his garage, who isn't suppose to use his garage as living quarters that I would be pissed!
But who can blame you guys in Irvine; life would be miserable anywhere if you decide to live on top of one another like that..
qwerty
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roundcorners said:
i would never live in an attached product. right now we rent a house with sideyards, front yard and backyard, a true SFR and the neighbor kid sometimes starts playing an instrument like at 9pm. Unless you own a acre you are going to hear the damn instruments regardless of attached, homes 10ft apart, ect. In the kids defense, he never goes longer than 15-20 minutes.
crunchycake
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roundcorners said:
Roundcorners, you may be taking this more seriously than I do...I realize my little rant about his man cave made it sound worse than it actually is. RKP is right - he can do as he sees fit with his space. I'm just saying having her room over his garage is not the ideal situation. I can live with the occasional early awakening from a nap because my neighbor has to leave. She's a baby and she does wake up early from her naps on occasion. Sometimes it's because of the neighbor, other times it's because the phone rings or because I dropped something near her room or because she peed in her diaper. Stuff happens. "Us people" (or I, specifically) would gladly take the occasional early nap wake up in exchange for clean streets, safety, nice parks, lots of trees, etc. I'd certainly prefer she wake from the neighbor's garage than sirens or big rigs or honking cars that you might hear in a big city. But that's my preference - different strokes for different folks. And I'm not 100% sure yet but I'm pretty certain I won't blow my daughter's chance of doing well in school by living in a home that happens to have a room over someone else's garage. I value her sleep too and make sure she gets her rest.
My folks live in a detached home with space all around the house and I remember hearing the girls next door fighting with each other in their bathroom. It's never perfect. You just have to pick what matters to you most.
roundcorners
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Of all the things we held the line since having our son was.. sleep...
http://www.amazon.com/Healthy-Sleep-Habits-Happy-Child/dp/0449004023
It's one thing that we SACRIFICE dearly... that we still sacrifice TODAY..! We missed countless gatherings, events and rushed home just to put the kid down in his OWN bed!
We can count on one hand the times he took a nap or slept outside his bed, since 3-years ago... It just breaks our hearts to see parents stroll their sleepy toddlers at the South Coast Plaza while mommy just has to go to the Apple store...
I agree most cities have their noise problems, but you will be surprise to see what you can find outside of Irvine if you just give it a chance and open you eyes a little; it's a give and take and it's taking the good along with the bad...
But again, it just breaks my heart, seeing what TIC, IAC and Irvine Builders subject Families to, all for the sake of keeping the "Loving where you live" image...
http://www.amazon.com/Healthy-Sleep-Habits-Happy-Child/dp/0449004023
It's one thing that we SACRIFICE dearly... that we still sacrifice TODAY..! We missed countless gatherings, events and rushed home just to put the kid down in his OWN bed!
We can count on one hand the times he took a nap or slept outside his bed, since 3-years ago... It just breaks our hearts to see parents stroll their sleepy toddlers at the South Coast Plaza while mommy just has to go to the Apple store...
I agree most cities have their noise problems, but you will be surprise to see what you can find outside of Irvine if you just give it a chance and open you eyes a little; it's a give and take and it's taking the good along with the bad...
But again, it just breaks my heart, seeing what TIC, IAC and Irvine Builders subject Families to, all for the sake of keeping the "Loving where you live" image...
irvinehomeshopper
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I am not greedy. 1/2 of an acre is sufficient enough for privacy. I would be living my ultimate dream if the garage is totally separate from the house.
qwerty said:
irvinehomeshopper
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That is the power of marketing. Buy this home and all your trouble marriage and family tension go away. One happy family takes a stroll to the neighborhood park and hopefully run into Qwerty because he is the only one who smiles. Make sure don't stare below his belt.
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