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Title: So I just got back from CA, Any Hmong
Post by: Dok_Champa on August 15, 2018, 08:42:15 AM
living in Malibu?  Santa Barbara?  Laguna Beach?  Huntington Beach? Oh yes, Laguna and Santa Barbara seem to be "cliff communities" because houses sit on steep slope. 
Title: Re: So I just got back from CA, Any Hmong
Post by: Gucci K on August 15, 2018, 09:15:41 AM
ehhh...escusey me...we can't afford to live in those seaside places.
Title: Re: So I just got back from CA, Any Hmong
Post by: winerice on August 15, 2018, 10:27:13 AM
There are hmong folks live in Santa Barbara. Few of them were my roommate back in the hayday.
Title: Re: So I just got back from CA, Any Hmong
Post by: DuMa on August 15, 2018, 11:19:55 AM
I drive South off i5 and it shows Lompoc go west towards them mountains.  Over the mountain is the ocean so go there to find your Hmong people like how nkausee found her white peach called a husband. 
Title: Re: So I just got back from CA, Any Hmong
Post by: DuMa on August 15, 2018, 11:22:19 AM
By the way.  I will be going to sol Cali on the 24th weekend to the 3lau party, an edm party.  I know for a fact that I will see your Hmong people there. 

Title: Re: So I just got back from CA, Any Hmong
Post by: winerice on August 15, 2018, 12:28:18 PM
By the way.  I will be going to sol Cali on the 24th weekend to the 3lau party, an edm party.  I know for a fact that I will see your Hmong people there.

Duma, sometime i think you're more hmong then viet since you always associated with hmong. Might as well marry a hmong woman. You know we hmong tend to have a lot of family gathering. I have a chinese coworker that married hmong as well.
Title: Re: So I just got back from CA, Any Hmong
Post by: DuMa on August 15, 2018, 12:40:51 PM
Duma, sometime i think you're more hmong then viet since you always associated with hmong. Might as well marry a hmong woman. You know we hmong tend to have a lot of family gathering. I have a chinese coworker that married hmong as well.

You know how you guys have white missionary guys who can speak Hmong? 

Well they lack the culture and the looks but I lack the language. 

For sure I marry Hmong if that's how the cookies crumble but just in case I do marry Hmong, I'm still on pH to educate myself.

Title: Re: So I just got back from CA, Any Hmong
Post by: Dok_Champa on August 15, 2018, 01:16:19 PM
Yes, housing in CA can be very expensive.  I was just playing house hunting in some of the areas I've passed through and my goodness, I'd have to win a lottery to live in some of those places ;D ;D ;D  I was in Cambria and even an old looking house cost half a million.
Title: Re: So I just got back from CA, Any Hmong
Post by: Gucci K on August 15, 2018, 01:40:07 PM
Duma, sometime i think you're more hmong then viet since you always associated with hmong. Might as well marry a hmong woman. You know we hmong tend to have a lot of family gathering. I have a chinese coworker that married hmong as well.
knowing duma, he's gonna find a midwest hmong chick who's living at AC/Pupraya, every weekend.  since you might be doing a hmong wedding, i can be your mejkong!  bring lots of ca$h..cause hmong chicks ain't free, even those who are divorced.
Title: Re: So I just got back from CA, Any Hmong
Post by: Dok_Champa on August 15, 2018, 01:42:54 PM
Driving through CA, I'm like a kid in the candy store-lots of things captured my attention: mountain ranges, palm trees, those flowering trees w/ the red, purple, and yellow flowers, brittle dry grasses, those towns in the middle of now where, valleys of vineyards, rows and rows of orchard (oranges-still green), almond orchards, cows eating on mountain slope, houses atop mountains slope, cows w/ no green pasture except the good earth underneath their feet, and yes those hill side communities along the steep slope.  Also, I love the dry heat even in 100 degree temperature... I could tolerate. 
Title: Re: So I just got back from CA, Any Hmong
Post by: YAX on August 15, 2018, 04:11:36 PM
Back when I lived in Santa Barbara, the Holloween parties were crazy as heck, with people flying in from as far away as Florida just to party.
Title: Re: So I just got back from CA, Any Hmong
Post by: theking on August 15, 2018, 05:37:06 PM
living in Malibu?  Santa Barbara?  Laguna Beach?  Huntington Beach? Oh yes, Laguna and Santa Barbara seem to be "cliff communities" because houses sit on steep slope.

Yes there are
Title: Re: So I just got back from CA, Any Hmong
Post by: Yebleng on August 15, 2018, 05:37:47 PM
I just got back from California myself and the most interesting to me was seeing the whales blowing their air holes from hwy 1 and all the farmers and workers on the field. Its always so gloomy on the coast but it was much better than the 100+ weather in the central valley :P

Too much Asians to be worrying about seeing any Hmongs :P
Title: Re: So I just got back from CA, Any Hmong
Post by: Gucci K on August 16, 2018, 07:35:49 AM
living in Malibu?  Santa Barbara?  Laguna Beach?  Huntington Beach? Oh yes, Laguna and Santa Barbara seem to be "cliff communities" because houses sit on steep slope.
Laguna Beach here!
well...essacuse me again...i guess there are hmong people in Laguna!  Nyob zoo!  ha!
Title: Re: So I just got back from CA, Any Hmong
Post by: theking on August 16, 2018, 09:40:41 AM
well...essacuse me again...i guess there are hmong people in Laguna!  Nyob zoo!  ha!

Of course there are but I don't expect the handful members of the narrow minded ignorant clique to comprehend that simple *fact*... ;D
Title: Re: So I just got back from CA, Any Hmong
Post by: Yebleng on August 16, 2018, 11:15:08 AM
The more North you go the more gloomy it is. But then again, I love the gloomy weather and would love to live somewhere in Bodega Bay. Can't afford that, will probably have to move to Maine if I want a cottage by the beach.

But Maine is so far from everything :P
Title: Re: So I just got back from CA, Any Hmong
Post by: Dok_Champa on August 16, 2018, 11:24:27 AM
Laguna Beach here!
that's a hill side communities and some houses are on steep slopes.  I have a little fear of height and I cringed driving pass that coastal town.  How are you adjusting and are there many hmongs living there? 
Title: Re: So I just got back from CA, Any Hmong
Post by: Gucci K on August 21, 2018, 08:46:02 AM
Haha! Sucks, no good Asian restaurants in LB. Not into American food, still  have to make a trip out to Irvine or Garden Grove for good food.
I must give you praise for being able to live in that area, let alone south cal.  i've visited there not longer ago, and couldn't handle the traffic, the smog and the emptiness.  i'm loving you (loving the beach, that is - great coastal views), the weather is great, the sites are wonderful, but traffic so bad it takes an hour to go 15 miles, the smog so bad you can't hardly see the blue skies and the emptiness of feeling alone...yes, there are plenty of hmong around but you can't tell the difference among the asians, it is sad one can't converse in their own language.  When i was down there, i'd say "nyob zoo" to random strangers just to see if someone would understand/reply.  people there work too hard, 6 out of 7 days and no time for play...you on the other hand must be working 24/7 or at least on other people's time, even though you're self-employed.  Garden Grove is where the heart is, i grew up there...now, i'd walk less than a block and eat pho again.
Title: Re: So I just got back from CA, Any Hmong
Post by: Dok_Champa on August 21, 2018, 09:39:00 AM
Loving:  How long have you reside in LB?  What are so great things to do and see in LB?
Title: Re: So I just got back from CA, Any Hmong
Post by: theking on August 22, 2018, 12:11:50 AM

Because I live in LB, you assume I work like a dog.

.... So again, please don’t assume.

That's how it is when it comes to the handful members of the narrow minded ignorant clique like the Trump disciple...

They see one thing and think it applies in all cases or paint "everyone" with a broad brush...
Title: Re: So I just got back from CA, Any Hmong
Post by: Gucci K on August 22, 2018, 08:28:27 AM

Because I live in LB, you assume I work like a dog. No, my working like a dog was when I was in my late teens up til my late 20’s. Now I work mostly from home and I pick and chose when I want to take on clients. Both fiancée and I have rental properties that we own long before we met. Just in case you’re wondering, the rental properties  pays for our current place in LB with extra for our monthly bills. Fiancée loves his job. We don’t have any debt, both rental properties are paid off.  We travel 2-3 times out of the year, on our own time. Since I have a flexible work schedule, and his boss let’s him take off whenever because he always complete his projects way ahead of schedule. So again, please don’t assume.
please don't take things out of context, never said you "worked like a dog", i was merely praising how people in southern cal are hard workers and giving credit especially to you (for the patience, agility and perseverance)...nothing condescending.
I didn't assume, i know you're into real estate and i understand real estate, i work in it myself...you don't get to pick and chose who you work with until you know their prequalificati on/approval status.  If lebron james asks you to show the property on 2431 riveria drive, at midnight...i know you would not refuse! 

if you want assumption, unless you're one of them, degenerative hmong folks can live any where they want and can kiss my a$$, that's why i left cali a long time ago!  sorry, if any of you cali people felt BURNT, by my statement! ha! ;D  #peace!  O0

Title: Re: So I just got back from CA, Any Hmong
Post by: Yebleng on August 22, 2018, 11:28:13 AM
I read this morning that the politicians in California is going to start charging parking spaces because more and more people are starting to live out of their cars...wow :idiot2: :o

Title: Re: So I just got back from CA, Any Hmong
Post by: DuMa on August 22, 2018, 11:33:26 AM
I read this morning that the politicians in California is going to start charging parking spaces because more and more people are starting to live out of their cars...wow :idiot2: :o

You don't see this happening in a trump supportive state.  California is one of the most taxed state. 

So you like to pay higher gas prices to housing to cigarette to other unnecessary taxes?  Welcome to California where they booed trump and everything trump here. 
Title: Re: So I just got back from CA, Any Hmong
Post by: Yebleng on August 22, 2018, 11:47:42 AM
You don't see this happening in a trump supportive state.  California is one of the most taxed state. 

So you like to pay higher gas prices to housing to cigarette to other unnecessary taxes?  Welcome to California where they booed trump and everything trump here.

If I ever move back to California I'll be a firefighter. Seems like they're always in demand ;D O0
Title: Re: So I just got back from CA, Any Hmong
Post by: DuMa on August 22, 2018, 11:51:56 AM
If I ever move back to California I'll be a firefighter. Seems like they're always in demand ;D O0

And you better not be using that fire truck to go on a grocery run because them democratic people will tell you to stop milking their tax funds. 

Title: Re: So I just got back from CA, Any Hmong
Post by: Believe_N_Me on August 22, 2018, 10:37:20 PM
There are successful Hmong people living in various affluent communities across the country. Why is this even surprising? It's especially not all that hard to imagine a single person (or a couple sans children) whose been doing nothing but building a career to mix and mingle with mainstream social elites in their respective neck of the woods.

Title: Re: So I just got back from CA, Any Hmong
Post by: Dok_Champa on August 30, 2018, 08:16:35 AM
I’ve been here a little over 2 years. I was living in San Francisco before that.  A lot of outdoor stuff if you’re an outdoor person. I do a lot of jogging and hiking. Fishing with my parents whenever they visit. A lot of music festivals, if you’re into that. Nice restaurants by the ocean, although I don’t eat out much except on cheat day, that’s when I head out to Irvine or Garden Grove.
What's a good place to go for hiking- where you see the cliffs/ ocean, nature, etc..
Title: Re: So I just got back from CA, Any Hmong
Post by: Dok_Champa on August 30, 2018, 01:48:44 PM
 O0 O0