What happened to SoCal Chapter?
What happened to SoCal Chapter?
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I tried contacting the head of SoCal chapter but no response. Just curious if it's still active. I was lucky enough to meet a few other mid 20s investors like myself and we talked about attending a local meeting but can't find one for inland empire or LA. San Diego chapter is pretty active but their meetings are on Mondays which we can never make due to work. It'd be great to get it up and running again.
I tried contacting the head of SoCal chapter but no response. Just curious if it's still active. I was lucky enough to meet a few other mid 20s investors like myself and we talked about attending a local meeting but can't find one for inland empire or LA. San Diego chapter is pretty active but their meetings are on Mondays which we can never make due to work. It'd be great to get it up and running again.
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Re: What happened to SoCal Chapter?
A chapter near Irvine, El Toro, Tustin, Newport would suit me too.
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I've wondered about this too.
I'm in the LA area, and would be willing to attend a local meeting too.
Perhaps if there's enough demand, we can get it going once again.
I'm in the LA area, and would be willing to attend a local meeting too.
Perhaps if there's enough demand, we can get it going once again.
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What goes on at these meetings anyway?
I'm interested just the same.
I'm interested just the same.
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interested. oc area.
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Ditto. I never understood Monday mid-day, most who work can't make it. I would suggest Saturday morning coffee.
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I attended a couple meetings on the OC/LAC border a couple years back. Also attended some further back in time and organized a couple meetings in Pasadena some time back. I think its a density issue. The challenge with Southern California is how spread out it is. Enough people are interested but distributed around the west side, downtown, Pasadena/Glendale, and OC. Somebody will have to drive a lot for a meeting. AFAIR all the meetings were on Saturday, can't imagine weekdays would work except for folks working downtown. Met some good people, still remember Steve who was working on civilizing the LAUSD 403b system.
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Hmm, maybe we can do an online meeting via Google Hangout or Skype?
I attended an SD one last summer and it was very helpful since I was new and had a few questions. The members ran the meeting like an open forum. Answering each others questions, talking about recent documentaries/news, etc.
I attended an SD one last summer and it was very helpful since I was new and had a few questions. The members ran the meeting like an open forum. Answering each others questions, talking about recent documentaries/news, etc.
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Would love to join a SoCal chapter if a new one is organized.
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I think I called the last meeting about 3 years ago. Two people had to cancel at the last minute and one other person showed up. We met at a coffee shop (near a freeway off ramp) and just talked.yakers wrote:I attended a couple meetings on the OC/LAC border a couple years back. Also attended some further back in time and organized a couple meetings in Pasadena some time back. I think its a density issue. The challenge with Southern California is how spread out it is. Enough people are interested but distributed around the west side, downtown, Pasadena/Glendale, and OC. Somebody will have to drive a lot for a meeting. AFAIR all the meetings were on Saturday, can't imagine weekdays would work except for folks working downtown. Met some good people, still remember Steve who was working on civilizing the LAUSD 403b system.
Any of you are free to plan something but as yakers said, any place that you select will be out of the range of some LA/Orange Co folks. I wouldn't plan a presentation or particular activity until you knew you could count on a certain number of people attending.
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Re: What happened to SoCal Chapter?
We are spread out. Driving time from here to Irvine, for example, is over 3-1/2 hours...with normal traffic.
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Southern California extends from Santa Barbara to San Diego. It's difficult to set up a meeting and get people to attend when the area is that spread out.
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Nothing wrong with setting up several more Chapters that would be closer to the various interested parties.TimeRunner wrote:We are spread out. Driving time from here to Irvine, for example, is over 3-1/2 hours...with normal traffic.
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I would be VERY interested in forming an Inland Empire chapter.
For me, meetings would have to be south Inland Empire (Corona or south of it). Otherwise traffic would be intolerable.
For me, meetings would have to be south Inland Empire (Corona or south of it). Otherwise traffic would be intolerable.
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I live in Pasadena, and would love to have a chapter nearby. I am new to Vanguard, so I want to learn from more experienced people.
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I also live in Pasadena. I'd like to join a community around the area.samswami wrote:I live in Pasadena, and would love to have a chapter nearby. I am new to Vanguard, so I want to learn from more experienced people.
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Well, we are right back to geographic distant madness even in Inland Empire. FWIW, I am in the desert Inland Empire, Rancho Mirage.Onward wrote:I would be VERY interested in forming an Inland Empire chapter.
For me, meetings would have to be south Inland Empire (Corona or south of it). Otherwise traffic would be intolerable.
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Right! I suspect there might be a few others beside myself up in the Santa Barbara, Ventura, Thousand Oaks area even though Gordon has abandoned us.gkaplan wrote:Southern California extends from Santa Barbara to San Diego. It's difficult to set up a meeting and get people to attend when the area is that spread out.
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I can see the dislike with the idea of having to drive hours through traffic just to get to a meeting (return trip wouldn't be as big of an issue except for active construction). It's hard to make it through Los Angeles (even worse with all the construction going on) for a meeting that is centralized to everything from LA to San Diego. I had to drive through LA along I5 yesterday evening and it was pure hell (particularly in a manual transmission car), and that was after I had gone shopping for a while to avoid the worst of the traffic.
Perhaps the solution is to break the SoCal chapter into two chapters, one for the northern end and one for the southern end. Logistically, given the traffic situations, I could even see having three or four meeting spots (with the northern-most one being selected so that Ventura, Santa Clarita, Lancaster, etc could come if they wanted). But there may not be a population to support that.
Perhaps the solution is to break the SoCal chapter into two chapters, one for the northern end and one for the southern end. Logistically, given the traffic situations, I could even see having three or four meeting spots (with the northern-most one being selected so that Ventura, Santa Clarita, Lancaster, etc could come if they wanted). But there may not be a population to support that.
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Very close to Pasadena here as well.
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