doc_loliday wrote: ↑Thu Jun 07, 2018 10:58 am
San Diego is still beautiful. It isn't leftyville. Orange county and San Diego are far more conservative than LA. Thats why they are separated from LA in the hypothetical state split.
Sharing what I posted in the Seattle Shithole thread after I got back from Keys. We also had family visiting who live in San Diego. Here's an account of what they told me.
Just had a chance to visit with family, for my nephew's graduation. The three from San Diego are the most left leaning people we know. The topic of Amazon came up, so we started getting into the Seattle issue.
The horror stories they told us about the homeless problem in San Diego made me sick. It's a huge problem and growing. My sister-in-law and her husband bought a house three years ago that was nowhere near where the homeless hang out, but now they are literally across the street.
These people are breaking down gates and cutting down fences to walk through yards, steal garbage cans for their stuff, traipsing through yards to get to hoses so they can "shower." Maddening. When they call 911 about active criminal activities, they get immediately routed to homeless services department, so they have learned that they can't say the word "homeless," nor can they just complain that there is a person using a saw to destroy their property. They have to pretend their lives are in danger or the police will not show up. The homeless know they can commit any sort of property damage without consequence.
The homeless problem is growing. The largest percentage of these homeless are people who refuse to play "the man's" game. Many of them have storage units where they go to get clean clothes and store their valuables. These people have money, they just choose not to pay mortgage or rent.
They are setting fires, shitting on people's lawns... needles everywhere. They dump garbage cans on people's lawns to get the garbage can. None of this is considered illegal by the police.
Shameful.
So, back to their being hard-core lefties; they do not give a shit about the homeless anymore and they don't even feel guilty for feeling that way, which is such an anti-lefty position to take. That's how bad it is for them.
They are planning to retire in a couple of years and they've already bought their retirement home near Joshua Tree, because, and I quote, "Fuck San Diego." They don't think throwing money at this problem will fix it. They are pretty convinced that Seattle is just taking people's money and setting it on fire, for all the good it's doing.