California (Maybe) Dreaming

[ZZGAMAZZ]

I was watching a vid from some ditzy Irish chick - she visited America and got off the bus in Compton and wandered the streets one afternoon with a girlfriend also from Ireland. When they got back to their group at the hotel, their companions were horrified and surprised they hadn't been mugged or murdered...

Something similar happened in New Orleans a decade ago, although the visitors from abroad weren't so lucky....murdered in the projects, which surround the French Quarter.

 

[ZZGAMAZZ]

CPT is actually more dangerious if your Black or Latino as today its almost split down the middle by major arterial streets and race. The Black on Black murder and crime and the nightly warring gang fights between the Black and Mexican gangs. In the mid eighties is was then mostly black with maybe 20% old white people who had lived there sense the early fifties. My first two weeks working CPT was I would get pulled over by Black CPT Cops and fist question was are you looking for a hooker or drugs or both. I laughed and they would say well white guys driving around here usually are. After a few weeks most knew me by site and just waived as I drove by. I have not been in there now in over 20 years as two dangerious. Hell even Sheriffs ride two to a car and some street they dont even drive down unless someone is dead.

Probably a stupid question....but what is the purpose of a Sanctuary State that is soft on prosecuting crime? Seems like it's not a place a reasonable person would want to live. So what is the purpose?

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

My first two weeks working CPT

In the 30s my mother's cousins all moved to Long Beach or Compton for work in the oil fields. Later drifted on to Pamona and Ontario.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

murdered in the projects, which surround the French

The French Quarter was one of those places I preferred to go only once. Ultimately I went twice since I had a convention to go to. That was plenty. NOLA is definitely not my town of choice....even in Louisiana.

Seems if you want a place that is dry climate and moderate weather, you'll have to stick to the SW of the US.

 

[glenn walker]

Probably a stupid question....but what is the purpose of a Sanctuary State that is soft on prosecuting crime? Seems like it's not a place a reasonable person would want to live. So what is the purpose?

In the 30s my mother's cousins all moved to Long Beach or Compton for work in the oil fields. Later drifted on to Pamona and Ontario.

Ontario is still a decent City in West San Bernardino County but almost all the old farmland is gone. Pomona was a good City up until about late sixties and thats when it became like a Compton. Today Pomona has some good areas as its the farthest city on the east End of Los Angeles County and less expensive than Compton or Long Beach . But it adds a good 45 minutes to one hour each way to commute as freeways are jammed up 24/7.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Ontario is still a decent City in West San Bernardino County but almost all the old farmland is gone.

Yeah, they started out as fruit pickers and packers

 

[glenn walker]

Yeah, they started out as fruit pickers and packers

Ontario was home to Sunkist Orange and Lemon Processing Plants . Up until I was about 20 years old it employed hundreds of people. My Uncle had a auto parts store right down the street from it . The big fruit haulers -Semi Trucks by the hundreds came in day and night from Orange Groves.

 

[ZZGAMAZZ]

Ontario was home to Sunkist Orange and Lemon Processing Plants . Up until I was about 20 years old it employed hundreds of people. My Uncle had a auto parts store right down the street from it . The big fruit haulers -Semi Trucks by the hundreds came in day and night from Orange Groves.

Adjacent to Mission Boulvard near Campus....where 2-bedroom ghetto units now rent for $2500 at least...where the sound of airplanes is defening...

 

[RustyTapeMeasure]

I'm weary of living in the SoCal Inland Empire region--traffic, miserable hot summers, bums sleeping on the porch, unaffordable housing/non-cultural/etc. I'm unencumbered and ready to roll, although I wish to continue residential appraisals and wonder whether a comfortable/cool/rainy/sleepy/reasonably-priced California city that needs an additional CR exists anywhere in the state. Peers???

As a kid of 19 in 1986 , i started appraising where I grew up and was living in Upland/Claremont. Was often beginning to do high end and celebrity stuff out here in LA and the OC. Decided I had enough of the heat in the summer of '96 when biz was super slow, my car air conditioner broke and my 1949 house did not have it either, brutalized me....been in West LA area since '97. The weather is awesome here so close to the beach but the traffic, idiots, density homeless and City of LA politics are horrible. No better then the IE. I wish you luck in any move. I am thinking about it as well. Hard to see if appraising will be viable as a career in the next 1-3 years as well and if loan volume recovers a bit the waivers, desktops, PAVE, PAREA, etc etc....will still making appraising a rough go.

 

[ZZGAMAZZ]

As a kid of 19 in 1986 , i started appraising where I grew up and was living in Upland/Claremont. Was often beginning to do high end and celebrity stuff out here in LA and the OC. Decided I had enough of the heat in the summer of '96 when biz was super slow, my car air conditioner broke and my 1949 house did not have it either, brutalized me....been in West LA area since '97. The weather is awesome here so close to the beach but the traffic, idiots, density homeless and City of LA politics are horrible. No better then the IE. I wish you luck in any move. I am thinking about it as well. Hard to see if appraising will be viable as a career in the next 1-3 years as well and if loan volume recovers a bit the waivers, desktops, PAVE, PAREA, etc etc....will still making appraising a rough go.

Shudder....I still remember the month in 2007 when my appraisal revenue declined by 95%.