What Anaheim is like to work in
Start downtown and the houses are old by Southern California standards. The Anaheim Colony keeps the original 1857 street grid, and the homes inside it run from turn-of-the-century Victorians and Craftsman cottages to 1920s bungalows, most with narrow hallways, original wood, and a detached garage at the back of a deep lot. Cleaning those takes patience rather than speed.
Push west or south and the city changes completely. West Anaheim is flat 1950s and 1960s tract, three bedrooms on a slab, carpet from the hall back. Out by Angel Stadium and Honda Center, the Platinum Triangle has gone vertical, with podium condos and towers where the whole job happens on one floor and the elevator sets the pace. All three get priced off room count, because square footage alone would get it wrong.
The building stock here
There is no single Anaheim house. Colony blocks hold 1,100 to 1,800 square foot bungalows with plaster walls, original oak, and floor registers holding a century of dust. The post-war belt is slab-on-grade, single story, 1,200 to 1,600 square feet, carpet and vinyl. The Platinum Triangle is polished concrete, quartz and floor-to-ceiling glass in buildings with vendor sign-in. Inland summer heat pushes past a hundred, and Santa Ana wind drives fine grit through every window track in the city.