[quote=1stimebuy]I might know only a small portion of the picture but Irvine has large Asian migrants – many people sell homes in their home country and you can buy 2 or 3 of the Irvine homes… because it’s worse kind of bubble in certain Asian market. There might be a lot more paid off homes in Irvine that belongs to these folks.[/quote]

Nah, most of those ones that come over here come because they have nothing going for them over there. The ones with money like it and stay there.

When i was working in LA, we had a guy that would come up from Mexico to work every week. We asked him why he didn’t relocate and he stated that his wife and kids didn’t want to move to the USA. They eventually moved, but the wife insisted that they keep the place in Mexico in hopes of moving back.