Posted on 07/18/2011 8:15:32 PM PDT by doug from upland
Downtown Los Angeles boasts some big-city perks like spacious lofts and trendy restaurants, but living there is a different kind of beast.
By Mike Armstrong
July 17, 2011 "Look, Daddy, that man's going to the bathroom!"
No, not the words any daddy wants to hear from his 10-year-old daughter, especially during a stroll through their brand-new neighborhood.
Moving my wife and kids into a downtown Los Angeles loft may not win me "Dumbest Dad of the Year" honors, but it should at least get me into the quarterfinals. The loft itself was great. More like a movie set than an apartment. High ceilings, new appliances, breathtaking views and a deck with a Jacuzzi that was used at least once every six months during our year there. It wasn't what was inside the building that broke the deal; it was what was out there on the mean and strange streets of downtown Los Angeles.
Why we moved there is academic. More space for less money, a new environment, cool restaurants and various other meaningless enticements. I got sucked in; I was wrong, and I admit it. I've apologized to everybody involved, and I will continue to do so until I am either dead or forgiven. In the meantime, let me tell you about my downtown L.A.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
These people are the product of liberalism,and there is NO cure for them.
>>Yup. It’s like zombieland. It really is like night and day. My Jew bud has a store in the garment district and after 6, it’s like you are the only person on earth except for the LAPD cops.<<
There is nothing in IMDB or Wkpedia to say so, but you have to wonder whether Downtown L.A. wasn’t the inspiration for “From Dusk ‘till Dawn.”
I agree. And Hell is a “new environment”, too.
Yes, and plenty of illegal aliens abound!
“Let me see: A father and husband was more enticed by “cool restaurants” than by any prudent consideration of the safety of a young daughter and wife.
I don’t think I could formulate a more damning indictment of the values and priorities of the “typical” liberal.”
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Well said.
Pathological narcicissm defines the Left.
Besides, EVERY major city has “cool” restaurants, and they might even be ...gasp....”hip”. What is the big deal?
Joe gave up the LAPD after the weekly mandatory tolerance and diversity meetings got to be too much and they enacted a no-pursuit policy. Sargent Friday remembered the stories his old partner Ben Romero told him about Texas, and after his mother passed he moved to Gun Barrel City, Texas where he’s now Deputy Chief.
I know the downtown area quite well. You have to be really naive to move there thinking it’s a safe location. While it has progressively become worse (progressive being the cause and the key word), it wasn’t a safe area 20 years ago. But, it’s not just the downtown area. In the general vicinity, you have numerous options for dangerous neighborhoods.
Mike Hammer moved to Phoenix.
“back in the 70s, we had decent music”
Like the captain and tenile?
I am literally speechless that this moron would actually move his children downtown. And near Broadway and 7th, yet!
Liberalism tends to “cure” itself over time.
In the ashes comes another round of sanity.
I remember driving through downtown LA in 1958.
It was no better then than it is now. Less Hispanics, but just as crawling with criminality and filth as it is now.
And some of the liberal asshat comments from the story, wow what a crowd. He;s so evil for commenting on the human wasteland that is Los Angeles. And a classic comment from a liberal idiot who excoriates him, from the comfort of her 24 hour per day security condo.
Like Led Zeppelin, The Who and many others...
“And some of the liberal asshat comments from the story, wow what a crowd. He;s so evil for commenting on the human wasteland that is Los Angeles. And a classic comment from a liberal idiot who excoriates him, from the comfort of her 24 hour per day security condo.”
I saw that,this is going to get much worse. when the money tightens up!
Then there will be NO safe zones.
That's the sad part for liberal men. Even a ten-year-old child has more gonads and common sense. There was no subtle hint in her statement to you daddy-o. Girlfriend was giving it to you straight up.
As I put my daughters to bed in our new, somewhat safer and more boring neighborhood, I tell them to "Sleep tight," "Don't let the bed bugs bite," and "Not everybody who reads the Bible screams it at the top of his lungs."
It may take awhile, but I'm determined to drop that last part.
HUH??! Really? THAT anti Christian vileness is the take away? To think these are the people whose writing influences our children in papers, film, and television. Explains a lot doesn't. Never miss an opportunity to pound on either Christians or Republicans.
Never thought other influences could have carved out this hell on earth did you daddy? /rant. Glad to hear the daughter has a much safer home in which to grow up.
I agree, but it says something for him that he is willing to write his mea culpa here.
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