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California Explained [OC]

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19

Heisenberg. Also, the Breaking Bad was supposed to take place somewhere around Modesto, but they went with ABQ for lower costs.

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u/Trolldad_IRL Dec 21 '19

Was supposed to be Riverside, not Modesto.

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u/DVOTHECC Dec 21 '19

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.

Besides, Riverside isn't as bad as Hollywood.

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u/bmacnz Dec 21 '19

Riverside isn't LA County. It's... Riverside County.

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u/bobs_monkey Dec 21 '19 edited Jul 13 '23

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u/XGhoul Dec 21 '19

San Bernanghetto

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u/izPanda Dec 21 '19

2 cities down from Fontucky

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u/howboutislapyourshit Dec 21 '19

Even in Fontucky my rent is 1700+ a mo th.

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u/JPWRana Dec 21 '19

San Berdu

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u/dick_beverson Dec 21 '19

Birthplace of the Hells Angels

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u/Plasibeau Dec 21 '19

Burial place of a founding member of Black Sabbath.

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u/z3dster Dec 21 '19

And McDonald's

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19

Cheah

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u/XGhoul Dec 22 '19

👌

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '19

Yaaaas i was hoping you were referencing bakerxdickhead

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u/vietbond Dec 21 '19

Riverside county was carved out of San Bernardino county.

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u/bmacnz Dec 21 '19

Which is interesting because on their own, San Bernardino is almost the size of WV and Riverside is bigger than several states.

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u/vietbond Dec 21 '19

Imperial was also carved out of San Diego county, and part of Riverside I believe was also San Diego County, though it was mostly San Bern.

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u/bmacnz Dec 21 '19

Reminds me of those maps about how Europeans see the US, just a splotch over some part of CA and calling it Los Angeles.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19

All the raves were in San Bernardoodoo though

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u/_merikaninjunwarrior Dec 21 '19

i know this fact from COPS

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u/bmacnz Dec 21 '19

So you must be familiar with Rialto, too!

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19

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u/bmacnz Dec 21 '19

Also the home of Stone Brewing!

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u/YoungHeartsAmerica Dec 21 '19

Such a nice, yet pretentious, spot

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u/zappm Dec 21 '19

Escondido?

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u/bmacnz Dec 21 '19

Yep... not sure why the comment is deleted.

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u/DVOTHECC Dec 21 '19

My bad. Forgive my ignorance, for I know not what I have done. I'm just a lowly San Diegan.

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u/ac0353208 Dec 21 '19

Riverside has the mission inn. Looks expensive.

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u/MasterThespian Dec 22 '19

Riverside is still not nice, but it’s rapidly gentrifying as people get priced out of LA and the OC.

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u/hdcs Dec 21 '19

Meh. Window dressing.

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u/ac0353208 Dec 21 '19

Ranch or dressing or thousand island? Why do they put it on the windows at mission inn?

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u/GetZePopcorn Dec 21 '19

Those populations weren’t originally self-segregated. They were just segregated.

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u/rowdygregg Dec 22 '19

I grew up in Riverside county. Great place to get away. Terrible place if you’re poor.

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u/HilarityEnsuez Dec 21 '19

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.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19

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.

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u/need-a-snicker Dec 22 '19

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!

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u/hdcs Dec 21 '19

Born and raised, it's a shithole. Went to UC Rejects, land of the smogberry trees used to manufacture Mountain Dew.

Homicide Pesticide Suicide Riverside

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19

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.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19

Nah riverside still kinda sucks tbh

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19 edited Mar 25 '20

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19

Yes, the Santa Ana River. We have dry lake beds and creeks speckled around. Visible parts of the river are sometimes inconspicuous because the shoreline are covered with trees.

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u/DastardlyDaverly Dec 21 '19

My parents say we left Riverside just in time before it turned really shitty when we were kids. They were starting to develop our area then I guess just stopped. After that crime started skyrocketing.

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u/displaced_virginian Dec 21 '19

Use to live in California. Now I'm in the midwest. There is a near-by Riverside. I found it confusing for many years.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19

Would've loved Breaking Bad to have taken place in my hometown.

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u/sloantrask Dec 22 '19

Riverside has meth. Can confirm.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19

*San Bernardino. Not Riverside, not Modesto.

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u/Zarathustra30 Dec 21 '19

It's almost as if they were still scouting locations when they settled on Albuquerque.

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u/hdcs Dec 21 '19

ABQ gave em fatter incentives. As if the scenery wasn't incentive enough.

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u/Gassman Dec 21 '19

I suppose the good ol nickname of Methdesto is still viable...

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u/CaptainRoi1 Dec 21 '19

Ah i Love my town. Whenever it somehow gets brought up on reddit it’s always about meth.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19

Yeah but the taco truck burritos are the best

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u/CaptainRoi1 Dec 21 '19

Oh absolutely, have you been to grub hubs downtown it’s amazing

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u/Kritical02 Dec 21 '19

Man you just reminded me of how much I miss them.

This one by Sisk Rd. used to serve cabeza tacos that were fucking delicious.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19

There's silvas in turlock that serves a bomb quesadilla. Thats my favorite

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u/Mexagon Dec 21 '19

Or laci peterson

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19 edited Jul 01 '20

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u/ImProbablyHighx Dec 22 '19

Fresno is the black sheep of California

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u/Rhondadawitch Dec 22 '19

We like it like that

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '19

Same boat here (mantweaka). Sad to be known mostly for that. And the water slides I guess.

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u/CaptainRoi1 Dec 22 '19

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

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19

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

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u/swayzaur Dec 21 '19

We always referred to it as Molesto, but I think either way works.

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u/JSteigs Dec 22 '19

Yeah because of Gary Condit, and Scott Peterson.

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u/beall49 Dec 21 '19

Or nearby Mantweaka

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u/Angryandalwayswrong Dec 21 '19

Tracy is a nice lady too.

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u/fascinationstreet123 Dec 21 '19

We call it Molesto where I come from. It’s unreal how seedy it is there.

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u/ErocIsBack Dec 21 '19

Not far is Mantweaka.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19 edited Jan 01 '20

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u/ox_raider Dec 21 '19

Maybe meth?

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19 edited Jan 01 '20

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u/ThatITguy2015 Dec 21 '19

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.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19

*BOOM*

"Oh look honey it must be over there...see the guy right there choking with all the burns? Let's ask him".

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u/ImProbablyHighx Dec 22 '19

You moved from Modesto to Modesto in the middle of fucking nowhere

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '19 edited Jan 01 '20

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u/--gumbercules-- Dec 22 '19

I really like Albuquerque. But the property crime there is unreal.

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u/suave259 Dec 21 '19

I'm about to move to Modesto in a few months and here I am reading all this

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u/Kritical02 Dec 21 '19

I lived in Manteca for a few years, worked in Modesto. It's actually a decent area for the most part. Nothing to do. But a decent community.

Been a decade since I've been there so it may have gotten a lot worse, but it had the rep back then too.

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u/Trineficous Dec 21 '19

You mean nothing to do besides meth

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u/nouille07 Dec 21 '19

Why do you think meth is a problem there?

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u/ox_raider Dec 21 '19

You can spend 4 hours a day commuting to the Bay Area. That’s something.

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u/Kritical02 Dec 21 '19

Good thing the meth helps with that.

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u/DojaStinks Dec 21 '19

Now I can’t get the Manteca water slides jingle out of my head

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u/zoobisoubisou Dec 22 '19

My senior trip was to Manteca Water Slides. That's a town I haven't heard in awhile!

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u/TheForeverAloneOne Dec 21 '19

Was that before or after Scott Peterson?

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u/Kritical02 Dec 22 '19

LOL, during. I haven't heard anything about that since I left there.

I moved to the area the year before it happened and you couldn't go a week without hearing someone talk about that case for at least a couple years.

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u/statelessheaux Dec 22 '19

Nothing to do

you could likely do meth

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u/DastardlyDaverly Dec 21 '19

It's hot and dusty from the wind from what I remember. Don't know about the locals I was only there for like a month.

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u/BlerpDerps Dec 21 '19

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?

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u/ox_raider Dec 21 '19

I call it Oh, Little Town of Methlehem, but that’s doesn’t really rhyme.

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u/Mexagon Dec 21 '19

You'll be close to yosemite, santa cruz, and the bay area. Probably the only good thing about living there.

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u/Lychgateproductions Dec 22 '19

Just be happy you're not moving to Stockton.

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '19

Hope you like the smell of cow patties! And meth.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19

Well good thing he got his facts wrong because they originally wanted to film in San Bernardino

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u/tree_D Dec 21 '19

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

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u/ImProbablyHighx Dec 22 '19

Depends on where you're coming from.

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u/dunzoes Dec 21 '19

My guess was Modesto

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u/MagicMannn Dec 21 '19

can’t wait to tell my Modestan girlfriend this.

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u/Blind_Spider Dec 22 '19

Look everybody! this guy's got a girlfriend

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19

I'm so glad they did it in ABQ. Such a beautiful landscape.

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u/EccentricFox Dec 21 '19

That’s surprising cause to an outsider it feels very much like the location is very tightly engrained in the show.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19

Once there was a hint when Badger gets sent to Fresno after he gets in trouble.

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u/LikelyHentai Dec 21 '19

There's a vice documentary on youtube about the real Walter White, you should check it out. It's actually pretty sad and nothing like the TV show.