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04-14-2006, 04:51 PM | #46 |
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Imperial - I live at Mirada, next to the Mormon Temple. Before Mirada, I lived at La Regencia - a couple cars got stolen there (they installed new cameras and had night patrols as a result from complaints). Before that, I lived at Costa Verde - the huge, multifloored complexes with huge, underground garages. About a car a month was stolen. So many people got their cars stolen they actually formed a group to file a class action suit against CV. Then CV installed remote-controlled gates. Cars were still stolen. My friend got her Ford Explorer stolen and my friend got his car stereo/woofer/amp stolen TWICE. My g/f got her Prelude stereo jacked and they tried to steal the car TWICE. They couldn't, because I knew about this precarious environment ahead of time and took out a few fuses under the hood so that the starter won't even work.
Also at CV, my place was burglarized - some thieves broke into a window and stole a bunch of stuff from both my roomates (I was actually asleep, locked in my own room the whole time). Even La Jolla is slowly succumbing to excessive crime.
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Costa Verde garages were CRAP. The gates were never locked let alone closed!. My close friend lived there for a while and I could easily get in and out with no problem, which always unsettled me. The doors were practically paper, too. The locks were JOKES. I was like "that's your front door? and THAT'S the lock?" No bueno. I used to live in Valentia over in Renaissance, which is where that guy I know had his car stolen. Twice we got locked out and both times we broke in with little to no difficulty. That made us feel awesome about our place, too...
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heres an interesting letter i found on a different forum. raised lots of heated debate over there. its interesting, if not entertaining. but id like to play my swtiz. card and stay neutral. i agree theres a problem with illegal immigration and something need to be done. but its finding the common, middle-ground thats the hard part. sorry if this is a bit off topic. but since bella started this...
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04-14-2006, 05:32 PM | #49 |
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Graduated a couple years ago from UCSD. Nice school, I liked it. Working in LJ (Pfizer). You graduated as well? See that you live Del Mar and thinking that's a bit too far to be commuting to UCSD.
Hahah, funny you guys broke in your own place and nobody called the cops. This place is so ghetto - a few weeks ago a girl (UCSD med student) got raped/burglarized in her own apartment (in Mirada, my same complex) at around 2:30 AM. Some Asian kid busted open the screen door in her patio and since she had her patio door left open, he raped her. The worst thing of all was that this girl was screaming and yelling the whole time but not a single soul called the cops because her neighbors above (awake at the time) thought she was just arguing with a b/f. Turns out this rapist raped once already, having his first victim 9 months ago near Doyle Park, according to DNA tests.
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i lived in valenica for a year then to costa verde... the problem with these apts. is the location. the area's too expensive and there are too many nice cars sitting in garages. if you were a car thief its like a kid in a candy store. too easy. and security is a joke there anyways. plus being so close to the boarder doesnt help either. the situation sucks but theres only so much people can do. its like the worst feeling in the world being robbed. you feel so violated. :mad:
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that's a loooovely story. I never heard anything terrible like that happen (except some art student killed herself by jumping off Pac Hall. She landed on a trash can so yo ucan imagine the mess there) yeah, we were surprised by not hearing anything about us breakign into our own places, too. Hooray for security, like biggieJ said.
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04-14-2006, 06:38 PM | #52 | |
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When they come here...yes, some are illegal. Some are fortunate enough to get a green card and obtain some limited legal status. Many have children that are born here. They end up paying state taxes, they pay federal taxes on legal social security numbers and even on fake social security numbers. But nonetheless...they pay. They get sick, their kids get sick...what do you want to happen?? Just ingore it? This poses a huge public health risk. Illness does not know your legal status. There should be some way to provide health care to these people. They obviously do not have health insurance..so how can they pay out of pocket for treatment?? I am not saying that we should have easy access for people to come into the US...rather there needs to be a realistic means of allowing people to come to the US...especially when the US is setting up industries in their native countries and indirectly dictating foreign trends and policies. Once americans use these people as a workforce...they should be given some priveledges. No one is going after the Americans that pay the illegals...we only complain of the illegals being here. They would not be here is there was no jobs available to them. The solution is not complaining about them being here, and denying them basic services. The solution lies in figuring out how to take care of the ones that are here for the sake of the communities in which they reside...and how to regulate future influx in a humanly manner.
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Miguel..
Im all about learning and understanding other people's perspectives. It what makes you grow as an adult.. :rocks:
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to that end, I bring you - news.bbc.co.uk imo, it's _the_ best news source on the planet. I get probably 90% of my news here and the rest from various American news networks. Honestly, you can't beat the BBC, you really can't. and for kicks, I've lately been perusing www.bbc.co.uk/portuguese
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I dont' think Bella is meaning bad about the Mexicans. I can understand what she's trying to say though. Latins, in general (including Italians Bella ), as well as many people from the Middle East and South Asia have this "machismo" attitude. A lot of it is really dispicable (esp. if it leads to fondling/sexual harrassment), but I think it has to do with their society. In the Latin world, Catholicism is dominant, and it is, obviously very conservative (i.e. schools of separate gender, no pre-marital sex, highly scrutinized if any dating, etc.). You find the same in the Islamic world, and in parts of Asia. This conservatism can lead to a lot of perversions though (Catholic priests molesting, woman looked upon as sex objects, etc. because they are not as empowered as people in the Western Anglo-Saxon world).
But one example is pay scales. I think it was Norway had the most equitable (between men and women) pay scales. I have friends that live in Norway, and it is also common for WOMEN to pick up men there. There are no sexual inhibitions (or very less i should say). You'd be hard pressed to find that society in any Latin, Middle Eastern, or Asian nation. Squaks: if you are sick of Cali, but like natural beauty, consider Vancouver. I've been there before and its a VERY beautiful city. The people are cool, and the women are pretty good looking too. Also, i guess its cheaper because its in Canada. |
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