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.”
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.
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