Is Bakersfield that bad? (Los Angeles, Oildale: rent, crime rates, hotel)

[Roaddog]

Originally Posted by gorideaquad

it sucks I have been here 7 years
and it is NOT middle class no way half the town in on welfare

To much competition for ya??

[Californiaguy2007]

Went driving around Bakersfield to do some shopping and let me tell ya the weather was beautiful and the views of the mountains were amazing.

I love Bakersfield !

[gorideaquad]

Bakersfield is not great not terrible ...read my other posts.
Mostly farm workers in other words mexicans who speak spanish on one side of town. Lots of rich oil cooks and farmers with cowboy hats. very bad smog and air, lots of red days. Affordable housing: yes indeed we have lots of foreclosures and the market crashed. A house that was 300k 3 years ago is now 140k max. Good luck read my other posts.

[BVitamin]

Originally Posted by Caliguy2007

Went driving around Bakersfield to do some shopping and let me tell ya the weather was beautiful and the views of the mountains were amazing.

I love Bakersfield !

you must be living on drugs 24/7. the whole central valley is an armpit besides the coast.

[gorideaquad]

oh yeah it does suck that bad PLEASE think twice bout movin here
the air does smell like??? mystery flavor because yes you can taste the air it is so foul. Cow manure, pollution, the freeway and all the trucks. It just reaks from the time you drive down the grape vine, you're like what is that smell? oh for real, it's just bakersfield. This is not a joke. And since I moved here I have a hard time breathing. I went to a doctor and he said i have no asthma but my breathing is like when i smoked 2 packs a day way back when.
Please think triple twice bout moving here, nothing but bonehads, mexican fieldworkers and good 'old boys. Oh yeah a few high and mighty rich folk who look down on you if you don't belong to the country club. Well that SUCKS too, try a real gold course and country club anywhere else.
Got allergies? no? oh don't worry about it I never ever had allergies but now I sneeze at pollen, dust and anything else.
Please think about your health, sanity and children's futures before moving here.
To say that children stay here is WRONG!! unless the parents make them or they have never been outside of this podunk town, they get out of dodge and go to college elsewhere.
BAKERSFIELD SUCKS, PUT THAT ON MY GRAVESTONE, I STICK BY IT...

[BigMattCA1]

bakersfield is okay....medium crime rate, high unemployment and poverty in some areas, but overall i'd rather be in bakersfield than oakland or detroit.

[BigMattCA1]

Originally Posted by Brisuh

Bakersfield is not really bad. Seriously, I believe that Bakersfield is a great high middle class neighborhood. If you think that Bakerfield is a bad neighborhood then think about Compton, Inglewood, Long Beach and Southcentral. Aren't they a worse neighborhood compared to Bakersfield? If anyone thinks that Bakersfield is bad, then I advise them to cruise through the ghettos of Los Angeles and just see how bad it is down in the hood so that they can learn to appreciate how thankful they are to live in a nice suburban neighborhood of Bakersfield.

this is a reply to the first person who posted on this subject. comparing bakersfield to south central LA is pretty lame. LA is 10 times bigger than bakersfield(comparing a city of 300,000 to a city of almost 4 million...what are you smokin).but i do promise that you can get shot or stabbed in a bakersfield slum just like any other ghetto in the country.
i get tired of people comparing lil country city like bakersfield to LA. compare bako to fresNO or sac town. at least ACT like you know what you're talking about. bakersfield has some of the highest poverty rates in the country. a ghetto is a ghetto no matter where you live. Oh and statistically bakersfield and long beach are pretty close on crime rate. not to mention in 2009 bakersfield metro area had the 33rd highest crime rate in the USA. that was out of over 300 metro areas. do some research before you make lame comments about places you know nothing about. i've been to LA county and LA city many times and yea it gets really nasty, but so does the worst parts of bakersfield. it's just on a smaller scale. it's not big inner city ghetto like south central, its poverty stricken urban sprawl. no sidewalks, no gutters, graffiti ,delapidated homes , closed businesses, gang members selling drugs in front of liquor stores. i know because i've lived there.

[hendersonedwin]

I have recently applied for three different jobs in Bakersfield. I found houses ranging from 85 to 120 thousand. I am wanting to know what the property taxes are like in that area.

[mattcory559]

I have lived in Bakersfield for almost 2 years, it is not a great place to live unless you can speak Spanish and don't mind all the stray and dead animals in the road.. I have been in Compton and watts and I didn't see anything that bad but I don't live there. Bakersfield is worse then a arm pit, it's tijuana. Hispanics are not the cleanest people. I know that sounds racist but it's true, they throw trash every where, go to the bathroom were ever they like and multiple like crazy.

[bigdumbgod]

Who woulda known the Bakersfield thread would be so entertaining? Good stuff, guys!