Posted on 02/13/2020 11:47:12 AM PST by C19fan
My wife used to work for Alaska airlines in Seattle and we would sometimes go on weekend “day trips” to places like Burbank airport, rent a convertible for the day, and come back that night. It was a lot of fun.
But one day we decided to visit San Francisco by flying to Oakland. We took the bus to the bart station and the crowd there gave us the willies. We’ve been all over the country but that felt so incredibly dangerous that we literally grabbed the next bus back to the airport and hightailed it back to Seattle.
This was about ten years ago. Now that my daughter left Studio City, we don’t expect to ever go to California again in our lifetime. I’ve lived in Vallejo, Napa and Anaheim (all in the 60’s). That state no longer has anything good to offer us and plenty of bad to offer.
The stench of the truly unwashed can be overpowering.
This is the sort of subject, which we aren’t supposed to talk about, lest someone be offended or accused of some sort of bigotry.
We aren’t allowed to talk about why people avoid public transportation especially at night.
We aren’t allowed to talk about why inner City schools are such failures.
We aren’t allowed to talk about why so many big city ghettos are hell.holes, or who perpetrates problems there.
We aren’t allowed to talk about why some shopping malls have gone downhill.
There are a whole host of subjects which we aren’t allowed to talk about frankly.
They are also using the system as a toilet. You cannot be anywhere in that system where you cannot smell shit and piss.
To put it in percentages, BART’s ridership in 2019 was 15% lower than in 2015. “Non-essential” staff like security and cleaning services would be first in line for reductions to make up for the revenue losses.
No sane person wants to go to Seattle anytime, it’s getting like Chicago/Baltimore/Atlanta etc., worse at night.
If over the last many decades some small percentage of regular BART riders were armed, a few attacks would have been stopped short.
That would be sufficient to discourage the trouble makers.
Unfortunately, California's unconstitutional restrictions make walking out your front door "knowingly putting yourself into a bad situation".
That was Livin' the CA Dream"
Well it’s nice to have when trouble comes looking for you.
My wife and her sister were going to take BART to San Francisco to jump on a plane. I said I’ll take you.
I was in third grade when we lived in Anaheim. I could see the materhorn from my bedroom window. :)
We would roller-skate on the sidewalks in our apartment complex and play croquet in the grass. There was an orange orchard across the street from our grade school around the block.
My wife and I visited it around the turn of the century. It’s now got a chain link fence on the edge of the street and it looks like an excellent place to satisfy all your illegal drug purchasing needs. It went from classic “1960’s family friendly post war US” to urban blight.
Actually, Pelosi’s son, Paul,Jr. wants that contract!
Up until three years ago, BART from SFO to Walnut Creek was acceptable. Now, we drive, and more frequently, Uber as the city continues toeliminate parking.
I lived in Fullerton up to 1997. I went back to visit in 2002 and have not been back since. It is a crime what has happened to California. And I wonder where the bottom is....
We used to be able to see the fireworks every night from our upstairs.
Has Atlanta gotten really bad too?!
Vallejo could be one of the best places to live.
It is a paradox with some good areas and good places.
Other areas are no go areas at night and even during the day.
Vallejo is no longer, a murder capitol. However, its crime rate exceeds California and the nation in most categories:
A comprehensive overview of any and all yearly reported crimes in Vallejo, CA is shown in the table above.
In order to provide more clarity, the total number of crimes is shown as well as the amount of crimes committed per 100,000 people.
The crimes indicated in the table are separated into two different categories. These categories are property crimes and violent crimes.
According to the table, the overall crime rate is 57% higher than the average of crimes committed in California.
It is also 72% higher than the national average. When it comes to violent crimes, Vallejo, CA shows a crime rate that is 71% higher than the California average. The crime rate is also 101% higher than the national average.
When it comes to property crimes, Vallejo, CA is shown to be 54% higher than the California average and 67% higher than the national average.
https://www.areavibes.com/vallejo-ca/crime/
Oh yeah - downtown is just awful.
When I lived there they didn’t do the fireworks, at least that I remember.
I just checked google maps. The neighborhood was east of I-5. It’s all gone now, Not even the school remains.
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