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LOL I haven't been down Bellflower blvd in years, that area may look nice but the rest of the city not so much. I remember the gang DV13 who was around our street, they'd always do drivebys and jump rival gang members. I remember the sketchy dudes always selling drugs in the Hollywood video parking lot on Alondra and Lakewood blvd. Things may have changed, for example that Hollywood video is not there anymore, it's now a Fitness center.
I used to drive my dad on that road up to the Downey Kaiser and I have to say that it is gentrifying and is better now than what the other person experienced.
Bellflower blvd was always nice looking but it's like putting a smiley face mask on a demon's face. Maybe things have changed since the early 2000s, but the city was a gang infested hell and as a kid who grew up there it was not some nice city. I always had to watch my back and being a minority (White kid among a majority Hispanic populace) there was tension.
Hometown is Charlotte. Was born there and lived 25 years there.
I would move back but I wouldn’t want to. There’s a lot more cities I would choose over Charlotte: San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Miami, Las Vegas, San Diego, Tampa are where I rather live.
It’s a great city but it’d be nice to live in a different place since you only live once. The west coast & southwest seem alluring. I would completely love to live in Phoenix.
LOL I haven't been down Bellflower blvd in years, that area may look nice but the rest of the city not so much. I remember the gang DV13 who was around our street, they'd always do drivebys and jump rival gang members. I remember the sketchy dudes always selling drugs in the Hollywood video parking lot on Alondra and Lakewood blvd. Things may have changed, for example that Hollywood video is not there anymore, it's now a Fitness center.
Not saying you move back there, but looking around at stats makes it appear that violent crime rates dipped substantially in the 2010s and it appears the peak was around 2005-2007 where it was looking pretty bad. Looking at Yelp for bougier stuff (cocktail bar, brewery, standard issue gentrification) and you see that a lot of things were opened only in the last several years.
I loiter in and around LA a few weeks a year usually. Any highlights you'd actually recommend in and around there? Only thing I remember from way back then in the area is the Anarchy Library in neighboring Downey, but nothing else aside from that.
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Long Island, NY…..great place to grow up when I did and visit but would not go back to live. My body has become acclimated to year round warm weather.
I actually knocked on the front door of the house I grew up in when I was in NY last week. A nice couple let me inside and gave me a tour of the house. First time inside in nearly 40 years ! Completely remodeled and looked nothing like the house I remembered.
Providence, RI, No. Nor anywhere in New England or most of the Northeast for a variety of reasons.
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