Be Around Opportunity
In 1988 my mom packed up all our belongings which happen to fit in a tow behind U-Haul trailer, hitched it to our 1976 Volvo and left our home town of four generations, Portland, Oregon behind us. That summer my Mom had applied to graduate school at three universities, the University of Texas, UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine. She chose UC Irvine, because my uncle told her Irvine was a safe city with lots of opportunity...