Newport Beach Country Club Magazine Winter 2020 | Page 20

MEMBER PROFILE
LIFE OF THE PARTY
PAIGE AND MICHAEL HILL ARE THE FUN COUPLE WHO KNOW
HOW TO HAVE A GOOD TIME.
BY ASHLEY PROBST
Paige and Michael Hill
both frequent the golf
course at Newport
Beach Country Club.
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fter graduating from college,
Paige, a Toronto native,
moved to California to
escape the cold weather in 1995, the
same year that she met her
husband, Michael, through a group
of mutual friends. Ironically, it
was the snow that brought them
together, as they had all met while
skiing. “Fast forward however many
years, I went to [Michael’s home-
town of] Chicago to Christmas shop
and I was like, ‘God, I’ve got to look
him up; I haven’t seen him in like
eight years.’ ”
Two years later, she “dragged”
Michael to live on the coast, though
he certainly doesn’t seem to mind
his new digs. “I retired early from
the Chicago Board of Trade, at 45.
Then I came out here to hang with
Paige, learn how to surf and learn
how to golf,” Michael says.
The couple has now been together
for about 14 years, spending two-
thirds of the year at their home
in Corona del Mar and the winter
months in Vail, Colorado. They have
built duplexes from the ground-up
in both cities—Paige, who does
the interior design for the units,
describes these development proj-
ects as the couple’s “later-in-life job.”
Prior to this venture, Paige owned
a jet charter business and Michael
worked as a commodity trader for
a corporate bank, and then for his
own entrepreneurial group. “[I]
closed that company at the end of
2007 and, … when the real estate
market collapsed, we bought three
lots in Corona del Mar,” Michael
explains, noting that they sold five
out of six duplexes and kept one
front unit where they currently
reside. To bring their visions to
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