CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
January 10, 1993 | LILY DIZON, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The year was 1987, and Francine Johnson was living in Louisiana's Cajun country, without a job. Her home town, Jeanerette, population 5,000, held little promise, so on a whim, the 23-year-old packed her bags and headed west for an unfamiliar region called Orange County. "In college I had researched areas where companies were growing, and Orange County kept cropping up as a place that was doing well," said Johnson, now 28, living in Irvine and working for a Costa Mesa advertising company.
NEWS
November 5, 1991 | PAUL FELDMAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
All that traffic leaving Orange County on the Riverside Freeway may represent something more than the daily commute. More Orange County residents migrated to neighboring Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties in the past year than moved to the county from those areas. Nationally, Orange County continued to attract more people from other states than it lost to them--but just barely.