About
About this Blog
Welcome to the Sweet Orange Housing Blog where I will be answering the question: Is the Orange County housing juice worth the squeeze? I’ll do this by focusing on the housing numbers for Orange County cities. However, since the numbers don’t give the complete picture of a community, I also will write about the people, places and things that make these cities what they are.
In some ways, this will be a continuation of my past life as a blogger for Redfin. In that life, I wrote about housing in Irvine and Costa Mesa. As I learned then, the housing numbers and community news for these two cities can give insight into Orange County as a whole and the country at large. The reverse is also true: what happens at the Orange County and national level affects what happens in Irvine and Costa Mesa. Therefore, that will all be in the mix on this blog.
About the Writer
My name is Sylvia Walker, and I am this blog’s writer and publisher. I grew up in Orange County; however, at the age of twenty I decided to venture out and see what the rest of the world looked like. Eventually, I ended up in the Silicon Valley area and spent many years there. While in the Silicon Valley, I worked as a freelance writer in the high-tech industry for companies such as Oracle Corporation, Visa and Applied Materials.
I enjoyed my time in the San Francisco Bay Area and working in the high-tech industry; however, fate intervened, and I returned to Orange County. Currently, I am still freelancing, but I am shifting my focus to housing industry, public policy, and sustainable development issues.
If you would like to contact me with any questions, comments, or suggestions, you can reach me at sylvia@sweetorangehousing.com.