LANCASTER CA, EDWARDS AFB what can you tell me about the area??? (Santa Clarita: apartment, crime rate)

[elousv]

Originally Posted by GracieJJ

Pls ellaborate.

I drive to the AV from SC on a daily basis. When you come around the corner on the 14 before Lamont-Odett Vista point get ready to grab the wheel with both hands. It feels like I am getting blown back up the hill sometimes. Sure enough, the windmill is going and making power. This is day after day after day. Whitecaps are often seen on the lake. The main feature that then graces your view is the landfill. Oh, and you are IN the San Andreas fault. Now let's exit on Palmdale Blvd. yikes! better get back on the freeway. Just one day this past week, I came upon this junk car just parked in a lane with both doors wide open with nobody around. Ok, drive a bit more, oh what is that smell and how high is that junk stacked up on that truck! Next intersection, someone taking a nap under a tree. How about that west side, what, quadruple homicide! Good grief! It keeps getting worse and worse. We now just go to the AV because we both have excellent jobs and run directly home. It takes 45-55 minutes to get back home, but the quality of life is worth it to us.

[Out_of_Palmdale]

The Fin n Feather is a private fishing lake. You have to pay to get in which is just as well because otherwise it would be overrun by ghettoids. Someone tried to steal my commuter car from the Park n Ride right there. Luckily the fool couldn't drive a manual transmission and so the car rolled down the hill into the desert. It took the police three days to find it but there it was still in one piece but damaged of course. For the poster regarding Special Ed, do your homework excuse the pun. The schools up here are not the best by any means at all and you are going to have to find out for yourself what programs are offered and the quality of those programs. I had to take my kids out of Highland High school and put them in private school because I was afraid they were going to get shot amongst the constant racial fights, tension, and security guard overkill that goes on there.

There is one bright spot here and that would be Antelope Valley College. I have only good things to say about this institution of higher learning and the professors who work there. The campus is overrun with ghettoids of course but they soon drop out once they have met the welfare requirements and gotten their "paycheck". A kid I know was in science class this week, the first week back to school, and the professor made the following statement: "Welcome to my class. It's going to be a tough but rewarding semester and I am here to help you succeed. I just want to say that if you are here to play the system or disrupt my class with juvenile behavior, leave now!"

As for the police, they still don't show up when needed for the most part because they are run ragged. The slumlords still don't take care of their properties. The streets are still full of unemployable drug dealing baby makin "men". The sex offenders have taken over the motels on Sierra Highway because they have nowhere else to go. The schools still suck. Property values are going down, down, down. The cities of Palmdale and Lancaster still try to shake you down for revenue in the form of "code inspections" and traffic tickets but do little to nothing about petty crime. It's all BALONEY and sometimes I just want to drive South down that 14 freeway and NEVER come back to this shytehole. Did I leave anything out?

[foxybrown78]

Originally Posted by Out_of_Palmdale

The Fin n Feather is a private fishing lake. You have to pay to get in which is just as well because otherwise it would be overrun by ghettoids. Someone tried to steal my commuter car from the Park n Ride right there. Luckily the fool couldn't drive a manual transmission and so the car rolled down the hill into the desert. It took the police three days to find it but there it was still in one piece but damaged of course. For the poster regarding Special Ed, do your homework excuse the pun. The schools up here are not the best by any means at all and you are going to have to find out for yourself what programs are offered and the quality of those programs. I had to take my kids out of Highland High school and put them in private school because I was afraid they were going to get shot amongst the constant racial fights, tension, and security guard overkill that goes on there.

There is one bright spot here and that would be Antelope Valley College. I have only good things to say about this institution of higher learning and the professors who work there. The campus is overrun with ghettoids of course but they soon drop out once they have met the welfare requirements and gotten their "paycheck". A kid I know was in science class this week, the first week back to school, and the professor made the following statement: "Welcome to my class. It's going to be a tough but rewarding semester and I am here to help you succeed. I just want to say that if you are here to play the system or disrupt my class with juvenile behavior, leave now!"

As for the police, they still don't show up when needed for the most part because they are run ragged. The slumlords still don't take care of their properties. The streets are still full of unemployable drug dealing baby makin "men". The sex offenders have taken over the motels on Sierra Highway because they have nowhere else to go. The schools still suck. Property values are going down, down, down. The cities of Palmdale and Lancaster still try to shake you down for revenue in the form of "code inspections" and traffic tickets but do little to nothing about petty crime. It's all BALONEY and sometimes I just want to drive South down that 14 freeway and NEVER come back to this shytehole. Did I leave anything out?

What exactly is a ghettoid?

[elousv]

Originally Posted by Out_of_Palmdale

Someone tried to steal my commuter car from the Park n Ride right there. Did I leave anything out?

I work with a guy whose daughter was murdered in that Park-n-Ride.

[Outback Annie]

I came to the states from Australia and married an American man who worked ad NASA at Edwards and had a house in California City. I lived there for 5 years but my husband had the house (he had it built) there for another 5 years before that so he was there for 10 years. Cal City a bedroom community for Edwards AFB. The first few years I lived there it was OK but as noted sadly lacking facilities. the only half decent store is the Rite Aid drugstore which was fairly new then and it has a good post office (being from Australia I used that often )

The reason it's gone downhill since then is because they built a jail a few miles from Cal City and it houses 2,000 prisoners. The crime has risen in the area because a jail attracts the friends and families of all those prisoners and the nearest place they can settle is of course Cal City thus the downward spiral of Cal City.

On the upside there is a LOT of money to be made working at Edwards AFB. We moved because we bought a motorhome and wanted to travel around the states. Did so for 3 years and have now bought a house in Washington state. I would consider moving back to the desert for one reason and ONE reason ONLY and that would be for the $$$$$'s. If we were to do that we'd live in Tehachapi. Bear Valley is beautiful but very pricey. I would suggest looking at different areas in Tehachapi. It's small but has some nice shops there and the climate is nice with 4 seasons as noted by other posters here. I would say go for it just for the money. Squirrel away what $'s you can in the time youa re there and bug out when you've had enough. Good luck.

[elousv]

Originally Posted by elousv

I work with a guy whose daughter was murdered in that Park-n-Ride.

and on the way home today they were talking about another quadruple murder in Lancaster. I'm not making this stuff up.

[eskimobo]

Originally Posted by ibarrio

Obviously you haven't drove down Ave I or Sierra Hwy...

Maybe it is a case of ignorance is bliss...I guess if you do not read the news papers and stay away from the bad areas you will never know what type of community Lancaster and Palmdale are turning into...

Well of course you don't drive down Sierra Hwy or Ave I. When I go to LA I don't drive down skid row either!! You're not going to go to the bad areas of town..That's just common sense!! The best area in the AV is Rancho Vista area. If I had anywhere to pick on where to live that is where I would move to.

[slammed_down]

I have lived in Lancaster for 35 years and I have never seen it as bad as it is now. Theres no work. Theres foreclosed homes on every street. The blacks and mexicans from Los Angeles have literally ruined this entire valley over the last 20 years. The crime rate is sky high. Our sherriff department is more interested in pulling over every bicycle they see riding around town then trying to catch real criminals. My advice to anyone thinking about moving to Lancaster is this. Come to Lancaster for one day and drive around town for one hour and see for yourself. Go down into the neighborhoods on the north side of ave. I and check that area out. Lock your doors before you start your drive through though. Drive by Antelope Valley High School about three in the afternoon and check that out. Don't accidentally make any eye contact with anyone though because they might take it wrong and yank you out of your car and beat you down like they did to some guy picking his kids up at one of the Christian schools here in town a couple years ago. My advice is to move to Tehachapi.

[foxybrown78]

Originally Posted by slammed_down

I have lived in Lancaster for 35 years and I have never seen it as bad as it is now. Theres no work. Theres foreclosed homes on every street. The blacks and mexicans from Los Angeles have literally ruined this entire valley over the last 20 years. The crime rate is sky high. Our sherriff department is more interested in pulling over every bicycle they see riding around town then trying to catch real criminals. My advice to anyone thinking about moving to Lancaster is this. Come to Lancaster for one day and drive around town for one hour and see for yourself. Go down into the neighborhoods on the north side of ave. I and check that area out. Lock your doors before you start your drive through though. Drive by Antelope Valley High School about three in the afternoon and check that out. Don't accidentally make any eye contact with anyone though because they might take it wrong and yank you out of your car and beat you down like they did to some guy picking his kids up at one of the Christian schools here in town a couple years ago. My advice is to move to Tehachapi.

Hmm I am black and live in Lancaster and lived in Los Angeles about 17 years ago. I guess I am part of the problem, even though I am educated and go to work everyday and magically, am not a criminal. I just love people who point the finger.

[slammed_down]

Originally Posted by foxybrown78

Hmm I am black and live in Lancaster and lived in Los Angeles about 17 years ago. I guess I am part of the problem, even though I am educated and go to work everyday and magically, am not a criminal. I just love people who point the finger.

Yeah I'm pointing the finger because everything I said is true. I'm sure there are some very good black people and some very good Mexican people living in the Antelope Valley and I'm sure there are a lot of white people that give the valley a bad name too. But I have lived here since 1971 and know what this place was like before all the black and mexican gangbangers came to town. And when I said the blacks and mexicans in my earlier response I guess I should have made that clear. The bottom line is that this Valley has gone to ****. Real quick let me ask you this. How many neighborhoods in Lancaster alone have been completely bulldozed over over the last 10 or 12 years? Theres the one over behind the old fairgrounds. Then theres the entire block between cedar and beeche street on the north side of ave I. And how about the four or five strrets of apartments directly across from the hospital on ave J? Everyone of these neighborhoods were predominantly black or mexican neighborhoods. Am I right or wrong? Why were these neighborhoods torn down and are dirt fields right now? Could it be because the people that lived in them completely ****en ruined them?? Or maybe the crime rate became so high in these areas and the murder rate was so far above the normal compared to {other } neighborhoods. Right now as I type this letter I can honestly say that there are neighborhoods in Lancaster that anyone regardless of their race would be taking a chance driving through or walking through not only at night but during the day too. I'm sorry if you were offended by what I said in my response but Everything I wrote was the truth and you know it.