West Kendall / West Dade gang drive-by's (Miami: houses, buy, schools)

[WINTERFRONT]

Originally Posted by Hialeah_Rules

it's soooo obvious you can't find anything to contradict my reliable source, but thanks for nothing.

ok, no probs, keep telling that to yourself.

[Hialeah_Rules]

Originally Posted by WINTERFRONT

ok, no probs, keep telling that to yourself.

i'll do that while you keep telling yourself 'kendall is a safe place'

[WINTERFRONT]

sure, we have a deal.

[Chelito23]

Originally Posted by crisp444

But as Princess has said before and I will say now, many other suburban areas in this country are showing their age and are suffering from similar woes (awful traffic due to unchecked growth, growth in the lower-income population, flight of the affluent to more established areas). From 1950-2000, the United States developed a peculiar pattern of the poorest people living in the central city and most of the affluent living in the suburbs (complete opposite of Europe); this pattern has started to reverse itself in the last 10 years and the central cities are thriving while many suburban areas are suffering. I have been all around this country and see Kendall as a typical American suburb, regardless of how much the Anglo population has been dropping west of the Turnpike in recent years. My aunt lives in a suburban NJ town about an hour outside of NYC, and many of the complaints people have of West Kendall are happening in her town.

With that said, unless West Kendall has dramatically changed in just a few years, I think the crime complaints are overblown. It is a shame that there has been a lot of publicized crime there lately, but I would be shocked if West Kendall actually has turned into a high-crime area.

People don't think of ghettoization when they think of the traditional suburb. They think nice and new. The issues in Kendall may not be unique to Kendall, but so what? The thread isn't about a suburb an hour outside of New York, it's specific to Kendall.

There are still many nice suburbs around the country and not all of them have begun to go down the toilet. As I stated in a previous post, Kendall is mirroring problems in many Southern California suburbs as well where more homes than needed were built, they were over priced and are located too far from everything. Some suburbs fall into this category around the country and many do not.

As always, the extent of the problems are in the eye of the beholder, but my stance is that as has been portrayed in the media, on this board and from what I have seen and experienced first hand, the increase in crime and decrease in quality of life and desireability of livng in Kendall is very real. It is nice to recall fonder days when Kendall was a booming suburb where you could escape the madness of Miami to some extent, but that is no more, no matter how hard it is for some posters to believe.

[WINTERFRONT]

Madness of Miami?

[nycjowww]

Originally Posted by WINTERFRONT

OFF TOPIC

I'm glad that guy got killed

you sound pathetic.........

[WINTERFRONT]

Originally Posted by jordandubreil

you sound pathetic.........

Thank you.

[nycjowww]

Originally Posted by WINTERFRONT

Thank you.

im pretty sure you wouldnt be saying that to your own seed or even the parents of the deceased .

[WINTERFRONT]

Originally Posted by jordandubreil

im pretty sure you wouldnt be saying that to your own seed or even the parents of the deceased .

wanna bet?

[Manolón]

Originally Posted by WINTERFRONT

What's a chaperona? Sorry, my Cubanism is not that good. :P

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Winter

Chaperonas are abuelas that try to screen candidates..they were quite a common sight in Fiestas Particulares, more so if the people celebrating such parties were from the countryside (Las Villas, etc).

In Spain, they were called "carabinas" (shotguns), also went out of fashion with the disappearance of fiestas particulares or guateques.