need advice on moving to Santa Cruz

[bnkid]

Originally Posted by skatealoneskatetogether

I graduated from Ucsc last year and i can assure you once you live there youre pretty picture of beach side santa cruz will be tarnished. Unless you have wax in your ears and eyes or are stoned like 90% of the trashy locals. Tell me how much you love santa cruz when it takes you 30 minutes to go 2 miles accross town. And just because you know what its like to be a local does not make you a SANTA CRUZ LOCAL. Unless your birth certificate says dominican hospital you might as well be from the moon. And locals tend to treat female college students better, as they are trying to get in their pants(doesn't matter if the local is a man or a woman "anything goes" in santa cruz). I was at ucsc for 5 years, Ive seen it all. A good place to be young or retired or go to college or go to surf/skate, not a good place to raise a family especially if you have strong and decent conservative values.

Yes you basically have to keep your eyes closed to see only the pretty beach thing. I am a local born at Dominican. There is plenty of discrimination they treat female students better then males. Just a few more years and I'm done with this stupid town.

[jaynetarzana]

FYI - It appears that the gang problems in Santa Cruz are getting worse.

Man in his 20s shot twice at Chestnut Street apartment complex - Santa Cruz Sentinel

[coyoteskye]

Originally Posted by jaynetarzana

FYI - It appears that the gang problems in Santa Cruz are getting worse.

Man in his 20s shot twice at Chestnut Street apartment complex - Santa Cruz Sentinel

you bring up two old posts regarding santa cruz just to inform people about gangs in santa cruz?
why?
it's a very safe county all in all and yeah, there's some criminal activity but so is there anywhere.
if you know the county, you know that's it's a relatively safe place to be.
where i live, we still don't lock our doors.
so, why spread this?
what's the purpose?
this original post was from 2007.

[krudmonk]

Santa Cruz is not all that violent. Noting one murder does not speak of a trend.

[bigdumbgod]

Roving bands of bathtub-meth wannabe-hippie "gangs" cause more worry than real gangs in SC. Don't give them money, especially on Pacific.

[jaynetarzana]

Originally Posted by coyoteskye

you bring up two old posts regarding santa cruz just to inform people about gangs in santa cruz?
why?
it's a very safe county all in all and yeah, there's some criminal activity but so is there anywhere.
if you know the county, you know that's it's a relatively safe place to be.
where i live, we still don't lock our doors.
so, why spread this?
what's the purpose?
this original post was from 2007.

I didn't want to start a new thread, but I thought it might be worth knowing for people who search old threads looking for information on a place they are considering. That is kind of the point of this site.