I don’t think the average couple I painted of Mr. and Mrs. Irvine is that out of line, bigmoneysalsa. A police officer and a school teacher seem pretty average to me. I grew up in Woodland Hills, an LA suburb in the valley similar to OC’s Irvine, and my father was an aerospace engineer and my mother a school teacher. We were very middle class. Certainly Irvine has couples above and below this example, but for the most part, Irvine is a middle class, family oriented city of professional-type couples. I’m certainly not trying to boost Irvine’s image above what it is, but you must admit OC as a whole is considered an affluent area, and housing prices have always supported that perception. Therefore it must be fact.
