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FCKGW posted:so cal is cool and good and still has affordable areas tyvm Not where you'd want to live.
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Yeah even I'm starting to get down about SoCal when "affordable" Riverside single-family homes built in the 50s are approaching 400k
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This thread is hilarious/depressing. https://twitter.com/NeverSassyLaura/status/969035981566328832
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Anonymous Zebra posted:https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/03/01/california-ranks-last-quality-life-new-report/384853002/ shocking news at 11
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Xaris posted:California Ranks Last in Quality of Life If You are White Male Boomer Who Also Needs to Drive and Park Right Infront of Every Store I'm currently trying to figure out their metrics. Mainly because I spent quite a while in New Jersey and still visit there and don't really understand why that would rank as a low quality of life. Especially since this piece apparently thinks the Dakotas have the highest quality of life! That being said I believe it is kind of knee jerky to immediately go down the path of what I just quoted from you, as I've mentioned several times in this thread I am not having the easiest time adapting to Southern California, and I do not at all fit the stereotype you just wrote up.
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Yeah I didn't mean that about you, moreso those types of articles. And don't get me wrong, there's a shitton of very bad things about california (lack of dense affordable housing, rents, prop 13 and using housing as investment vehicles, etc). But most articles I've seen are basically conservatives really pissed about TAXOFORNIA and desperately wanting to believe we're a failing state that everyone is fleeing due to taxes and overrun with rampant illegal immigrants, whereas everything is basically the opposite of that with some of the higher incoming migration, booming economy (esp relative to other states). just really, everywhere else is much worse barring being born into massive wealth or using housing-investment vehicles from elsewhere and retiring on that, etc
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Badger of Basra posted:This thread is hilarious/depressing. eminent domain the home of anyone complaining, bulldoze their house and build a soviet style apartment bloc
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Tuxedo Gin posted:re: oakland mayor: im the assumption that ice would have had a 100% arrest rate if only the mayor hadn’t told people “yeah, that ice raid you’ve been worriedly waiting for? it’s probably tomorrow”
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Anonymous Zebra posted:Especially since this piece apparently thinks the Dakotas have the highest quality of life! Housing prices in the upper Midwest are crazy cheap because it is a giant flat field covered in snow half the year. Some people really like that though. Rent-A-Cop fucked around with this message at 01:52 on Mar 2, 2018 |
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Raskolnikov38 posted:eminent domain the home of anyone complaining, bulldoze their house and build a soviet style apartment bloc Same, but with collective punishment of their neighbors as well to build a 200 story archology.
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Why the gently caress would I want to live in a place that snowed a ton and often. I'd rather live somewhere where if I really wanted snow I could drive there, but I don't want to deal with 1) bitter cold or 2) shoveling snow or 3) 
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Badger of Basra posted:This thread is hilarious/depressing. Local government has proven incapable of housing their population, the state must strip zoning rights from them. Garcetti can kiss my loving rear end too.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Yeah even I'm starting to get down about SoCal when "affordable" Riverside single-family homes built in the 50s are approaching 400k Riverside is nice but yeah if you’re looking at housing in the 200s then you’re looking at Perris or Victorville and you don’t want to do that.
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HelloSailorSign posted:Why the gently caress would I want to live in a place that snowed a ton and often. Snowmobiles are a hilarious way to almost certainly kill yourself though.
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The best part about that article is where it says California has the lowest quality of living index because Californians are insufferable. What a great scientific study. Totally unbiased.
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Does LA really have the worst air quality though? I remember how bad it was when I was a kid and nowadays it's way better than it was, I mean you can still taste the exhaust on the air when you're downtown but there's no gross yellow cloud hanging over the city.
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bango skank posted:Does LA really have the worst air quality though? I remember how bad it was when I was a kid and nowadays it's way better than it was, I mean you can still taste the exhaust on the air when you're downtown but there's no gross yellow cloud hanging over the city. worst for ozone, fifth worst for year round particulates, ninth worst for short term particulates. with that said, LA has been on a downward trend, but so has everybody else. Instant Sunrise fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Mar 2, 2018 |
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HelloSailorSign posted:Why the gently caress would I want to live in a place that snowed a ton and often. I'd rather live somewhere where if I really wanted snow I could drive there, but I don't want to deal with 1) bitter cold or 2) shoveling snow or 3) That's LA, you can drive to the snow. And the beach. And that's why 1 Bedroom can go for $3200/mo.
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bango skank posted:Does LA really have the worst air quality though? I remember how bad it was when I was a kid and nowadays it's way better than it was, I mean you can still taste the exhaust on the air when you're downtown but there's no gross yellow cloud hanging over the city. Depends on where you look, but it falls within the top 5 US cities pretty much everywhere. The lowest ranking I found was number five, and that's only because they rank four other California cities in front of it. To be fair it's been getting better like Insane Sunrise said, but at the end of the day California has tons of urban sprawled cities situated in the middle of valleys that trap pollutants, and a transportation infrastructure so heavily reliant on cars that it's mocked as "Freeway Culture". It's not surprising we're hitting the top of air pollutant lists even with all the work that's been done to curb/clean up emissions and change gas blends to burn cleaner.
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California, that idyllic place where people from literally every part of the world will drop their poo poo to move to because everywhere else sucks and infringes on their rights to simply exist; it's terrible.
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Sydin posted:Insane Sunrise  mods change my name to Insane Sunrise please
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FCKGW posted:Riverside is nice but yeah if you’re looking at housing in the 200s then you’re looking at Perris or Victorville and you don’t want to do that. Back in 2006 I knew multiple people buying McMansions in Victorville, we're talking 3.5k square foot homes with pools for 500k. They were all out within 3 years because turns out spending 20 hours a week on the road eats up any time to enjoy hanging out with your family in your big house, and nobody is going to visit.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Back in 2006 I knew multiple people buying McMansions in Victorville, we're talking 3.5k square foot homes with pools for 500k. They were all out within 3 years because turns out spending 20 hours a week on the road eats up any time to enjoy hanging out with your family in your big house, and nobody is going to visit. Victorville is getting the first Waffle House on the west coast so who's laughing now?
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FCKGW posted:Victorville is getting the first Waffle House on the west coast so who's laughing now? People who have actually eaten at a Waffle House?
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FCKGW posted:Victorville is getting the first Waffle House on the west coast so who's laughing now? 
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No Victorville is about 2 hours south east of Bakersfield.
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I loving hate Victorville/Adelanto simply because the stupid loving stoplights and lane additions then reductions on 395 add an extra 20+ minutes to any journey.
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It’s like the San Bernardino County version of Palmdale
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It's like Barstow but without the character.
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Ive lived in Los Angeles my whole life and never been to Victorville, or "Adelanto" if thats even a real place.........
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You know when you get through the Cajon Pass on your way to Vegas and everything starts smelling like rear end when you're like halfway to Barstow? That's Victorville.
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Jaxyon posted:It's like Barstow but without the character. lmfao
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Raskolnikov38 posted:southern california continues to drag down the state and should be destroyed I'm from San Diego and I agree assuming you mean everything north of San Onofre.
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Smythe posted:Ive lived in Los Angeles my whole life and never been to Victorville, or "Adelanto" if thats even a real place......... Adelanto's claim to fame is the Federal prison it hosts, featured in the 1992 documentary narrated by Christopher Lambert, "Fortress". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U6oLx3xy8s
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bumming your scene posted:Adelanto's claim to fame is the Federal prison it hosts, featured in the 1992 documentary narrated by Christopher Lambert, "Fortress". Lol cool
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FilthyImp posted:Whole lotta people here goin to bat for a place that boasts a possible Waffle House and, like, an Arby's. Don't think a single person has "gone to bat" for Victorville, unless you consider mockingly acknowledging its existence as "going to bat" for it.
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