[Riley]

Don't let ‘em fool you, Antioch is really a third word country, this is normal.

I lived there for about 15 years, ending in 2003. I went back to visit in 2007, and almost didn't recognize the place. It was as if someone had dropped the same streets onto a different city.

[SatinDoll]

I lived in South Gate, CA, between 1960-1961.

South Gate was a very nice middle-class community, mostly of retired old-folks. It had a nice public library and I safely walked the three blocks to piano lessons. I’ve never been back.

But I have heard that now it is like little Norte Tijuana.

[Ronin]

I lived in Antioch from 1972 to 1975. It was a totally straight square town then.

Depressing to find it’s gone downhill.