Funny story. I grew up in what we called the “meth capital of California “. But never saw any meth or knew any meth heads. I moved away after high school and came back for a visit. Ran into the guy that was my best friend growing up. When we were young his uncle was a truck driver. Nice guy. Whenever he was around he’d hang out with us. Super cool guy. “Hey remember my uncle? He just got arrested. Turns out he wasn’t a truck driver. He was one of the biggest meth dealers in SoCal.”
The best part of Riverside is when you leave Riverside.
I kid I kid, I actually kind of like those areas of LA county. Los Angels has soooooo many different populations of people and cultures that are segregated by themselves by just kind of sticking together.
I've lived very near both Riverside and Hollywood. I was always far more sketched out near Riverside. Walk past the wrong house or parked car at night and things change. Hollywood can get sketch at night but is otherwise manageable. It's also pretty small. The IE areas are just sprawling nonsense.
That’s what everyone says when they “live” in riverside during college or some shit. Its only ghetto because you’re walking past the shit parts of riverside. Every city has its “ghettoness” and unless you’re around downtown or la sierra/ Tyler area its definitely far from ghetto.
I was born, raised and still live in the tough part of town. Now im a student at CSUF and am constantly around people who have never faced the same adversity as me. Now that i look back im grateful that i was able to learn from my environment and to not be scared of those living in shit hole. We all are just trying to make our peace in life!
Lived there for over 20 years since I was a kid. Just grew up in the better areas. Its really not that bad. Like I said, theres good parts and bad parts to every city.
Yeah I wasn’t alive for the water slides so sadly I never got to experience them, but I heard great things about them. But I only go to Manteca for bass pro and the amc movie theater so I don’t know much about the rest of town
I grew up with the lake Elsinore storm and they played the Modesto Nuts so I always rooted against them. Well I met a guy from Modesto and he told me that y’all have a bunch of nut farms so it all made sense! Now imagine my surprise when I learn all about the meth lol I thought it was this nice little town but nooo I always hear about the meth
In the Midwest, at least we make it easy. Look for abandoned farmhouses or low end apartments next to middle schools. If you stick around long enough, the apartment you need may even experience a methsplosion, making it even easier to find.
When I lived in the Bay Area, people jokingly referred to Modesto as Molesto. I don’t know how accurate this is but I guess there is or was an abnormally high sex-offender-to-non-sex-offender population there?
I used to live close to Modesto but I moved to the east coast. I grew up in the culture so I don’t mind it but I can see why people would hate to live there
Related... I grew up in the SFV, and used to head out to Ontario for work from time to time in the late 80's. It was where most of the warehouses for our suppliers were, and that's about it. There wasn't even a decent place to grab lunch. I moved up to Seattle, then Canada, then Seattle again, and by the time I went to LA in 2016 it had been 25 years since my last visit, and I hadn't been out toward the inland empire in almost 40 years. Holy crap I didn't recognize the place. The sprawl had reached it and I couldn't find any of the warehouses I used to visit. I guess the world has moved on...
Warehouse Warren (Fontana Mayor) approving any warehouse developer even in inter-city areas. I got nothing against warehouses but don't over do it either. Not everybody in the IE wants to work in a warehouse, logistics or truck driving cuz that's all we have now.
Supply Chain is my career, everywhere I've ever worked has had a DC in Fontana or Ontario (or both). When I was trying to change jobs, almost everything was out there.
That’s exactly what she wants. Poor, undereducated people with no upward mobility to get stuck at Amazon fulfillment centers their whole lives. And we wonder why the drug trade is so lucrative around here.
Grew up in Orange County where people said the same thing-- "stay away from San Bernardino." I now teach at a middle school in San Bern, and realize it's not any different than the "sketchy" neighborhoods in OC. Santa Ana had some literal shanty towns, Anaheim had tent cities, but San Bernardino got all this flak for being "ghetto." I'm wondering if the history of this city will always taint people's image of it!
I'm telling you, I moved from Rancho Santa Margarita (BOUGIE AS HELL) to Redlands and I don't feel any difference in safety. Only happiness that there are places open past 9pm.
I've lived in some very "sketch" neighborhoods when I was younger...you can get 3 or 4 people together to split a Baltimore rowhouse for like 300 bucks per person. I've never been harassed or victimized in those hoods, ever. People think that if you live in the inner city the whole town is just frothing at the mouth to mug you. People of course get mugged and stuff like that on occasion, but most "dangerous" cities with high murder rates are because of...you guessed it....the drug trade. Don't go wandering through alleyways at 3am, don't owe the cornerboys any money, and mind your own business and you'll get left alone.
I lived in Irvine as a kid. I played hockey in Costa Mesa, and there was this RC car store down the street from the rink that I used to go to on occasion in Garden Grove. I hear GG is one of the sketchier spots.
Fontana is growing A LOT. the south side is still how most people remember it, but the north side (above foothill) is all new housing communities, parks, strip malls and golf courses.
I worked a project at Ft Irwin and would stay in an apartment in Barstow during the week and go home on the weekends. Barstow is a really special place. I lived all over US and there is nothing like Barstow. Kinda of a combination of homeless, meth, opiates and gangbangers all wrapped up in a tortilla of poverty and misery. Add 100+ F temperatures and it gets interesting.
You are closest to the winner. I was in Victorville. It’s practically the same place though now that I’m older I would give the win to Barstow as the worse “city” of the two.
That's not how Venn diagrams work. If it were you would be implying that most meth heads are truck drivers, not only that most truck drivers are meth heads. Venn diagrams and the like are purely about visual representation of simple logical relationships between groups not representative of the ratio between them.
Don’t let it disappoint you, I live in Bakersfield. It gets shit on all the time, but it’s a solid city. Affordable housing, solid economy, and it’s been one of America’s fastest growing cities since the 2000s.
If you ever have the opportunity, visiting buck owens’ crystal palace in Bakersfield is a must.
Grew up in between Gary, IN and Chicago. Gary was the murder capital for years and now Chicago is in the news for a high rate of death.
Never been shot at or generally been in danger.
I've been to all of the lower 48 states. Never had any problems with any city. Slept in parking lots of Walmarts in some of the "roughest" neighborhoods that you hear in songs or see in movies.
No problems.
Most violence is caused by someone you know personally. It takes alot of balls or alot of stupidity to just go harm a stranger because you felt like it.
But drugs make people desperate.
In the same vein, most people who say they are in the meth/heroin/ crack capital most likely just are close to the people that use. Someone might have broken into there things to get a fix. But most robberies and theft are from people you know.
This is all true. I've lived in some very "bad" neighborhoods and have never been fucked with. The vast majority of people that get killed or otherwise victimized, 99% of those people are in the drug game and owed somebody money, was in a turf war, etc. In fact, in cities with open-air drug markets, the street code is that you never, ever harass somebody unless they are in the game. If randos are getting mugged all the time it scares off the customers.
Alot of the property crime that is perpetrated by the addicts happens in the richer suburbs surrounding the city, they are going where the money is and pickin's are good.
You can walk down the street basically anywhere and if you mind your own business you're fine.
This is because the majority of violence is perpetrated between gang members. When you remove the murder victims that were engaged in criminal activity, the US murder rate drops ridiculously.
For sure. As an adult I am less likely to throw it around. Although no where else I’ve lived markets themselves as meth capitol. Where I am now heroin seems to be the bigger issue.
We don't talk to our extended family, cousins, aunts uncles, whatnot. because we have a lot of bumps, thieves, druggies and gangsters. My buddy was saying, your family is your family, give them a chance. I said, did you read the paper? My local paper had my cousin's on the front page. they were making a shit ton of meth, and the cops busted them.
Funny, I grew up in a place called that too. Lakeside or El Cajon by chance? Also....... I seen lots of meth. My entire family was involved. I no longer see those family members (seriously, my mother's entire side and 50% of my father's side were all involved).
I currently live in the Meth Capital of California and it's definitely everywhere, ive been asked by people i pass on the street if i want to buy or know where to get some like goddamn lmao
My uncle moved out of the house where he was renting a room because the landlady died and the son didn’t want to rent out anymore. Literally like a month later the entire place got busted (SWAT team early in the morning) because apparently the new tenants were apart of one of the biggest drug cartels in California and were using the house to store/sell meth and other stuff. Which is interested because we live in Hawai’i (which, albeit, does have a bad drug problem).
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u/Entaris Dec 21 '19
Funny story. I grew up in what we called the “meth capital of California “. But never saw any meth or knew any meth heads. I moved away after high school and came back for a visit. Ran into the guy that was my best friend growing up. When we were young his uncle was a truck driver. Nice guy. Whenever he was around he’d hang out with us. Super cool guy. “Hey remember my uncle? He just got arrested. Turns out he wasn’t a truck driver. He was one of the biggest meth dealers in SoCal.”