Ask Doug_From_Upland, he lives nearby ...
I wanted to drive the old Route 66 last year and started in SB toward LA. SB is a shocking dump compared to towns like Rancho Cucamonga, etc. In fact, there is a 'line of demarcation' as you drive old Route 66 when leaving SB, that you suddenly feel like you are in another state.
I’d love to live in R. Cucamonga just because of the name. And because Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Mr. Leghorn always mentioned it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygVFbz6AsnE
I grew up (8-18 yrs old) next door to SnBerdoo in Rialto.
The politics of SanBerdoo was always a combination of corruption and tons of voter apathy, with very little and only isolated islands of local pride or great sense of belonging. I left the area in 1968 but have siblings who have remained in the area, and I don’t think the politics or the public spirit of SanBerdoo ever changed.
As bad as the rules of the public pension system there is, in terms of the abuses it permits by the rules, there are a good many city workers and former city workers who both were never part of those abuses and never earned salaries greater than might have been earned in the private sector either. It’s unfortunate that even in their case the promises made were greater than the funding that was actually set aside to fulfill them. A sister has a couple friends who are in that category and they admit to her they would have preferred weaker promises upon which their own actions over the years would have been different but now their small pensions too will likely be hit as well. I tell her I can fully understand their position but I understand too the financial dilemna the city of SanBerdoo now has, with NO solution capable of satisfying everyone, and no responsibility legally or morally for wealth or income from outside SanBerdoo to make anything any better.
It’s a hard lesson local taxpayers everywhere need to wake up to.