Welcome to California. Your videos are great. I really think you should film Balboa Island Christmas week during the boat parade December 14 to 18. Fireworks at start of week then at end of week. The Island becomes one big Christmas party with Carolers and lots more. There is even a teddy bear house. Decorations are off the radar. It is very fun. We have been there many times. Some even invite you into the party.
This was a nice video. I’ve lived in Newport Beach since 1966. I would guess that parking was so difficult early in the video is because you were there on the weekend.
Great vid of Newport! Hope you got to see those giant houses at Corona del mar, i love the ones on poinsettia ave. Beautiful place for sure, and there's some hiking up in the mountains across from Corona del mar beach too. I'll usually prefer laguna tho!
As always, very cool video. I never watched OC, but i do know what is it about)) Nevertheless, Newport does look like a dream, even without Hollywood rendering it.
The OC was set in newport beach but filmed in redondo beach further north in Los angeles county. The diner from the show still exsists at redondo pier and is worth a visit
I'm surprised you aren't covering all the homeless living in Newport Beach and on Balboa Island. It seems in recent years, a LOT of them have been popping up all over South Orange County, coming in from Downtown LA.
Thank you for showing us around Newport in the O.C on our list to visit next time we’re in California! we would need to sell a kidney each me and Ellie and hopefully we can buy a house for nearly $3.9m 😂. We love your videos dude puts a smile on our face watching your vids keep up the good work bro 💙
If you like mint classic cars checkout the Nethercut collection in San Sylmar. Free with reservation. Free concerts a few times a year in the organ floor. At Christmas it is absolutely beautiful! Across street is more cars and a classic train car you can tour.
Lived there for 4 years. It’s nice it’s very pretty and living by the coast without all the crowd like LA is great. It does get a little redundant over time as you tend to learn the whole area quick and the culture is pretty monotone. Paradise ok sure compared to the rest of the US. But really it’s just another city.
I will say it’s a great place to retire if you can afford it. It’s calm and laid back. There’s a lot of nature to utilize. Fashion island is whatever it’s pretty but boring imo. South coast is the richest mall I’ve ever been in. Yes it’s more extravagant than rodeo drive given the amount of luxury stores. Places like CDM or newport coast can be very conservative and racist. Never had any extreme experiences but I’ve heard the sentiment. Overall it’s very peaceful but a little bit of a bubble. Personally I left because I got bored of it. I learned it all. And as a young guy it’s a pretty family oriented area even with a larger young crowd. Wanted more culture and excitement.
I recall years ago thinking that the Newport on the East Coast was the nicer, fancier of the two coastal Newports. Although it does have a history of old money & historic palatial mansions, its weather & terrain give it a different look & vibe. Since the one in Rhode Island comes with the weather of the Northeast, its vegetation isn't as resort-like or friendly looking. There's a newer video about it on RU-vid & it's interspersed with a few shots of possibly the Calif Newport. That made me at first think the Rhode Island Newport was nicer than it actually is. 😄 Incidentally, for geological/Earth-science reasons, waves on the West Coast are bigger than waves on the East Coast. Never knew (or thought about) that until not too long ago.
@@MichaelMartello I didn't mention that because the West Coast Newport is part of the economy (or larger marketplace) of Southern Cal (as opposed to Rhode Island), it comes with things like the Newport Fashion Center. But because part of its territory was the ocean instead of homes or offices (where customers would be), its sales potential wasn't originally as good as hoped for. Not sure how it's doing in today's times. But it's interesting the way that areas like a Newport or the theme parks of Anaheim several miles to the north - or a Culver City/Playa del Rey - all play a part in the bigger picture of LA/SoCal.
Newport is great , love it's beach , but it's hard to beat Laguna Beach vibe. And Selling the OC is such a bad copy of Selling Sunset , great houses but cheap trashy drama.
The comparison between inland Chino and coastal Newport Beach is unrealistic. Few, if any, would prefer to live away from a body of soothing water (lake or ocean). A fairer comparison would be Newport to Malibu, to the north, or La Jolla, to the south. You'll develop more self aware comparisons, free of tv fantasy, after residing in SoCal for a bit. Enjoy Cali living.
Like most wealthy areas, it's a nice place to live. However, even if I won the lottery I could never live there. It's a very, very, very Republican based community. Also, very conservative is some ways. Not very LGBT friendly. When I first moved to LA the OC had about a dozen gay establishments. There was an actual gay area like WeHo. They all got closed down and pushed out to LA and LB because of their anti-gay political attitudes. Maybe one or two left. It's why people say living in the OC is like living behind the Orange Curtain. Very Boomer and very Republican in attitude.
