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Unread 04-22-2012, 02:22 AM
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Location: Los Angeles County, CA.
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Exactly...I'm from detroit, and the slums of Detroit make Compton look like Beverly Hills. lol but, this may have to do with appearance as well. Compton is still a part of Cali...and Cali has better landscaping and weather than the cold, harsh callous Detroit or other ghettos. one thing that Compton has over Detroit as far as violence goes is organized crime; the steady increase of gang affiliation there is not really prevelant in Detroit....there are some gangs in Detroit, but very few that are heavily connected and have a large network.
No - Compton is nowhere near Cali, Colombia.
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Unread 04-23-2012, 07:24 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles, CA (South Central)
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go to brazil and wilmington and get back to us lol
SMH. I used to go over there a lot in 2004-2005 when Game produced, and yeah...even there doesn't LOOK bad, but it was always active. It just felt a lot different from Gardena/Inglewood/South Central where I was used to being.
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Unread 04-26-2012, 09:58 AM
 
Location: Northeast of California's elbow. Lol
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Exactly...I'm from detroit, and the slums of Detroit make Compton look like Beverly Hills. lol but, this may have to do with appearance as well. Compton is still a part of Cali...


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No - Compton is nowhere near Cali, Colombia.
Eh?? Was that a joke? Or just what map are you reading?
Check again.
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Unread 04-26-2012, 12:16 PM
 
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I remember going to compton for the first time to visit my ex gilfriends grandfather i drove there from Phx in a rented civic. Anyway i parked in the streets and he told me to bring the car in and never park outside. It didnt look as bad as where i grew up here in manhattan ny. But then again it looks worse here yet i can walk around at 2am.
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Unread 04-26-2012, 01:35 PM
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Location: Los Angeles County, CA.
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Eh?? Was that a joke? Or just what map are you reading?
Check again.
Cali, Colombia is in South America - Compton, California is in North America.
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Unread 04-26-2012, 04:12 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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i still don't get why people say the "cali is in colombia" thing. i know plenty of people that live in LA or from there and call it cali. must offend those out there still though lol.
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Unread 04-26-2012, 04:52 PM
 
Location: LBC
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i still don't get why people say the "cali is in colombia" thing. i know plenty of people that live in LA or from there and call it cali. must offend those out there still though lol.
You know people who consider themselves natives and refer to their home state as "Cali"? I'm a native and I don't know any. Oddly, we can trace this to a guy from NY named James Smith, who was uncomfortable with his own name, so he changed it to LL Cool J. I'm going to refer to him as "Jimmy" from now on.

Ari, Ori, Washi,Texa, Flori, Illi...its not offensive, it just sounds dumb.
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Unread 04-26-2012, 08:44 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles, CA (South Central)
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You know people who consider themselves natives and refer to their home state as "Cali"? I'm a native and I don't know any. Oddly, we can trace this to a guy from NY named James Smith, who was uncomfortable with his own name, so he changed it to LL Cool J. I'm going to refer to him as "Jimmy" from now on.

Ari, Ori, Washi,Texa, Flori, Illi...its not offensive, it just sounds dumb.
Philly sounds good though
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Unread 04-27-2012, 11:23 PM
 
Location: San Jose, CA
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i still don't get why people say the "cali is in colombia" thing. i know plenty of people that live in LA or from there and call it cali. must offend those out there still though lol.
It's greasy kids' stuff. Difficult to take seriously any alleged adult who still says "cali".
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Unread 04-28-2012, 09:42 AM
 
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I actually moved from Detroit to the Crenshaw area(west side) then Compton..any so called ghetto in California is a resort in comparison to places in the D...I know it's crime,gangs,etc.. in Compton,but believe it or not,I felt safer there than on the Westside..in L.A.you have so many pockets of shadyness,that it's hard to know all the places to avoid..stuff can happen anywhere..in Compton,you knew exactly where to stay away from.I never felt unsafe.it was quiet,working class people that mainly kept to themselves.
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