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Oxnard was forward thinking enough to create a groundwater reclamation system. The water's drinking quality but it's only intended for agricultural use. I think all the other cities in our county depend on always being able to get water from existing local sources and from LA. We're about an hour northwest of LA and southeast of Santa Barbara.
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As far as I'm concerned "the" always goes in front of the names of a freeways, highways, and interstates. The PCH. The 101. The 118. The 405.
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Jul 19, 2013 23:47
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This was settled by the definitive movie about LA: Sharknado. Drunk guy explicitly says that "take the 10 to the 405". 
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Jul 20, 2013 00:17
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I have a question for our Nor Cal neighbors. Do you have any stations like KCRW? KCRW's best known for it's talk shows and its contemporary (but not top-40) music programming.
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Jul 20, 2013 08:24
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VagueRant posted:I'm going to California (from the UK) soon and I was wondering if people have recommendations on what I should do there. I'm definitely going to LA, but I'm almost certainly going to visit San Francisco and San Diego. If you do drive up the PCH there's a stretch of the PCH that isn't actually on the Coast, the part that goes through Oxnard and into Ventura. If you're driving up that way and you're interested in automobiles from the 1920's and 1930's then swing by the Mullin Automotive Museum. There's also the Shooters Paradise gun range. We also house a Fry's Electronics: each store has it's own unique theme and ours is
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Jan 17, 2014 07:11
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FRINGE posted:Lol. The Colonia Chiques. We're one of the safest nations in the US per-capita. On that note, we only had like a dozen gun-deaths last year and we went an entire year without a cop accidentally killing someone. I'm sure someday we'll be known for things that aren't sad or [url=]http://www.laweekly.com/informer/2012/03/07/teacher-moonlighting-as-a-porn-star-oxnard-school-district-investigates-every-schoolboys-fantasy]embarrassing.[/url] no we won't.
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Jan 17, 2014 11:18
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What are some good ways to become more informed about California's water situation?
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Jan 19, 2014 07:20
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Xaris posted:But LA is almost marvelous in how bad traffic is. It can be like 11 PM at night and you'll get into traffic in an 8 lane freeway for no apparent reason. Thankfully you can use Waze, Sigalert, and public radio to find out about how bad the jam is and if you'll need to take an hour long detour around the 101 to cover the last 20 miles to your house. Granted that was Ventura County but the principle still applies.
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Apr 15, 2014 06:53
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Voting straight down party lines so I can say "No, I didn't phone bank, but I did vote."
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Jun 3, 2014 02:52
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I've been to Sacramento for student budget cut protests. G.W. Bush was still president and I wore a fedora because Indiana Jones wore one. I don't think we were successful. If I remember right they raised the cost of tuition that year and the year after that and the year after that while also cutting services and teachers.
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Sep 18, 2014 06:04
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A cousin is moving to Bakersfield in a month or so but in the mean time she and her family have been living in hotels in Ventura County. Do resources exist that can help her out other than shelters?
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Sep 24, 2014 08:15
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Leperflesh posted:I'm not very clear on what you're actually asking about. Month-to-month rentals? Extended stay hotels? Youth hostels? No, she isn't considering that right now. I'm not entirely sure what to ask myself.
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Sep 26, 2014 04:12
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She doesn't really need anything urgently. When I asked I really wanted to do more to help than babysit occasionally. That's about the limits of what I can do at this time.
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Sep 29, 2014 01:40
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My guess is you'll probably treat Ventura County as a rest stop instead of its own destination since it's right next door to Los Angeles. But we have some good museums here, a few old timey towns, shopping, a California Visitors Center, the Reagan Library. Heads up, they don't let you get close enough to dance a jig on his grave anymore.
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Feb 1, 2016 04:29
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The funny thing about Oxnard is we have wealthy people slumming it at our beaches, but because we have a lot of brown people living in the city we're somehow dangerous. If we were that dangerous people wouldn't be parking their Porsches outside of Yolandas, McDonald's, and Vons.
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Feb 2, 2016 01:57
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Speedboat Jones posted:Happy to see some Ventura County chat in the thread! I moved away last June and I MISS my favorite places to eat like Snapper Jack's Taco Shack. In the LA thread people were like "You want to live in TO instead of Oxnard if you're commuting to Camarillo because traffic." Yeah. The two cities are equidistant apart, there's a big gently caress-off mountain in between T.O. and Camarillo with no good ways to get around it if traffic is bad, and the rents are higher. But they wanted the guy to move there because traffic.
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Feb 3, 2016 07:15
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FRINGE posted:The last time I lived near that area that was actually not bad advice. Thats how bad traffic through Ventura-Oxnard-Camarillo had gotten on the 101. More and more people were trying to use the single-lane back way through Saticoy to not deal with it. It's got to be a personal preference thing then because the only time traffic's really bothered me on the 101 there as a rule has been Friday afternoons. And if it's bad 101 Ventura-Oxnard-Camarillo and I know where the trouble is I can usually bypass it without being very inconvenienced. But when I'm stuck in traffic on the 101 northbound from T.O. I have to make a decision to either tough it out thru the Conejo Grade or take one of two steep, windy mountain roads. I hate stop-and-go on the former and hate the sheer mountain sides on the latter.
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Feb 3, 2016 10:57
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CPColin posted:There's even a special squadron of planes dedicated just to flying around looking cool! They're not even in our Air Force, but in our Navy! And if you told someone the Marines , coast guard, and army had their own squads solely devoted to airshows you'd have people believe you because those branches all have sizeable numbers of aircraft.
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Mar 2, 2016 21:06
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FRINGE posted:I had a job for a while that occasionally had me covering sites between SD and Ventura. I'm still not sure if Woodland Hills is all LA county or if its half LA county, half Ventura County.
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Mar 3, 2016 12:02
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Possibly. I don't think most people in Ventura County have even heard of Hidden Valley. I stumbled upon it's existence in Wikipedia years ago as a place that people filmed animals. Let's see what google can turn up. A few hundred people live there. It's got a trail. And horses. And a lesbian issues therapist. A lieutenant governor lived there 21 years ago. Celebrities own stuff there. No yelp reviews for anything in it's zip code. It almost sounds like the gated community version of a town. If you have a house there you're loaded, and if you want to do anything you have to leave your protected sanctuary to deal with the huddled masses.
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Mar 10, 2016 10:35
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l99Ek4YtTuw Huell and Avocado Dog know what it's all about.
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Oct 25, 2016 04:13
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Was Huell single or married or in another form of partnership?
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Oct 29, 2016 20:10
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Ventura County is LA and Santa Barbara adjacent. It has good weather, nice beaches, and a reasonable murder rate.
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Nov 16, 2016 05:14
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Key party favors, what field is your work in? You can use that to narrow down what cities/metro areas in So Cal you could move to. Places where you can expect to find a job quickly and that pays well while maintaining or surpassing your current quality of life. E.G., Thousand Oaks has Amgen and other biotech companies but if you worked in the defense industry you'd probably want to move closer to Oxnard/Camarillo (Point Magu and Port Hueneme naval bases). If you're a teacher you can work anywhere in Ventura County because we absolutely don't also underpay our teachers just like everywhere else. Nope. Totally won't be a problem. RandomPauI fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Nov 21, 2016 |
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Nov 21, 2016 01:18
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What is your current job and what skills do you have? It might be smart to figure out where you could get a job, narrow down places in general, and then get specific after you get hired. E.g., if I had a degree in bioengineering I'd probably look at Amgen in Thousand Oaks. Then I could decide on a community from there. Like, live in Westlake Village to be closer to LA. Or on Oxnard shore for the beaches, shopping, and ready access to the nightlife in Ventura. Or stay in T.O. for its proximity to mountains, the beach, and woodland. Or go with Simi Valley if you love Reagan and boiling hot weather.
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Feb 1, 2017 19:03
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He also doesn't have a job there and indicated that he wanted to move there even though he didn't know the area well. If he wants to move for California's politics there's a whole lot more than just the bay area. Job first, move second.
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Feb 1, 2017 19:10
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SLO has Camp Roberts and sometimes the Central Coast and Ventura chapters of the Red Cross have trainings there. So if you're a member of the Red Cross you can commute to the camp instead of staying at an adequate hotel!
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Mar 8, 2017 07:38
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How much time are you willing to spend in your car?
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Apr 24, 2017 06:58
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Re: traffic, it really depends on where you want to live, what you want to do, and when you want to reach your destination. Like, if you moved to, say, Ojai (mountains, farms, hippies) you'd have to drive 30+ minutes on one lane roads to get to a movie theater, the beach, etc. If you lived in Oxnard and worked in Northridge you could take the train instead of driving, but you'd have to operate on the trains schedule. It's not a traffic hellscape but getting around is still a major thing.
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Apr 24, 2017 07:22
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Waze will be your friend. Until it takes you into a hilly neighborhood with few cliff guards and only room for one car going in either direction. Because the sensible way would be a few minutes slower.
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Apr 24, 2017 10:38
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If you have to be close to the beach and typical city amenities but don't need to live next to a major metropolis you might want to check out Ventura County. It'll still be pricey, but not LA pricey.
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Apr 24, 2017 21:30
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SB is a 45 minute drive from where I live. That's not ideal but it's also not commuting to Santa Monica or Anaheim. Oddly enough, Thousand Oaks is in the same county and takes me 40 minutes to get to.
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Apr 26, 2017 19:45
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Bok Bok posted:I'd trade in my car for a loving boat and sail there. Is that a thing? It should be, that sounds great.
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Apr 27, 2017 07:29
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Ventura county would more viable than LA or San Francisco. But you're still looking at 800 a month for rent at a minimum if you wanted to be within a 15 minute drive to the beach.
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Aug 7, 2017 02:56
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The commutes are fine if you like to listen to NPR or podcasts while driving. Or if you don't mind 20-minute detours down city streets to get to an alternative freeway that's an extra 10 minutes out of your way. And, most important of all, if you don't actually live in the LA metropolitan area and you time your trips to avoid traffic whenever possible.
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Aug 25, 2017 07:48
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Ventura goon reporting in, volunteered about 11 hours, had to call it before the 12th hour. Most of the night the fires we're visible from the fairgrounds. This morning the smoke as too thick to see the fires.
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Dec 5, 2017 17:22
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We didn't get any rain during the spring or fall, so all the growth from the winter showers dried out. That plus the Santa Anna's made for a horrible combination.
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Dec 5, 2017 23:28
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Seconding money more useful than goods. Unless it's a couple of fresh carafes of coffee in the early morning. Coffee from a licenced, commercial-grade kitchen only, we can't accept homemade stuff for safety and liability reasons.
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Dec 8, 2017 01:00
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The initial evacuation orders for the Northern CA fires weren't sent out over phones because of ignorance or laziness. They claimed it couldn't be sent in a way that was targeted. But they could, and for Ventura's Thomas response they were. To the point that a bunch if alerts hit our Ventura evacuation shelter at the same. Santa Barbara flubbed it by sending a vague alert countywide with no instructions at 2:14 am one night, but they got it right within a half hour.
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Charges would probably be placed on So-Cal Edison. So a civil fine.
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