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I've enjoyed reading the posts in this topic. So many different opinions on GP. Many I agree with. We moved there in 1991 and left 2 years ago. It was becoming like So Calif in the price of houseing. The schools suck. Nothing like not knowing how many days will be cut this year. Friendliness? Hmmm, where we moved to you can walk, ride or drive down the street and people will wave at ya. You'd never find that in GP. The corner beggers. OMG! Where did they come from and why did they land in GP? GP has more then I have ever seen in my life. Here it's against the law.
We pay sales tax now, pump our own gas and have to put up with hot, humid temps here. But there is soooooooo much more for my kids to do. They can actually go outside and play with friends in a safe neighborhood, where we dont have to worry about drug dealers and child molesters. Dont get me wrong, they are out there, just not in our area of town. My son can also play sports at a much cheaper cost...baseball is FREE to play.
We also have a police dept. that cares. I know that if I have an issue of any kind they will be there. We have a huge public library. I loved going to the library in GP and taking my kids there. They loved it. It made for a cheap, fun experience for them. Where we live the library charges an annual fee of 25.00. Im sure that money helps to keep it open. It's to bad the JoCo Library couldnt implement something like that, and bring it back. They need it. I know from personal experience that the schools there just push kids through. There is no holding back...retention of any kind. My son would have benefitted from retention as he was extremely immature and not ready but Dist. 7 absolutely refused. Said NO WAY. It will affect him socially in the long run. I guess academically didnt matter.
I miss the weather of GP and the river. Other then that there isnt much at all that I miss. I have always believed the California transplants played in a huge part in the rapid, extreme rise in housing costs. It's to bad the housing is so high. Not to mention the cost of gas. Like I said, mini So Calif.
The only things GP has to offer is weather, scenery and the Rogue River. To bad it costs to damn much to enjoy it.
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07-25-2008, 02:46 PM
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