[Porsche-O-Phile]

You've got a point - I know the history of the town and such, but it just seems to be kind of a weird double-standard of planning incentives to try and attract development of new shops and restaurants and $400,000+ condos and then two blocks away be catering to all the dirtbag, color-wearin' hoodlums and associated types that can now conveniently be brought in here for under a buck.

Cripes, even the Pike (and I know the history of that - it used to make Coney Island look upscale) with the millions that went into redeveloping that is a little bit scary at times. Not that it's seedy, it's that it's a convenient place for the "boyz-in-the-hood" to go hang out now. They do a decent enough job patrolling it usually, but I've still seen problems over there. Ditto with the clubs and crap on Pine Avenue. It's worse than the Sunset Strip sometimes.

I was looking at some of those new condos over by the Wal-Mart - for $350k I expect better than to walk out my front door and feel like I'm in a third-world country 'cause of all the people being attracted to the Wally Mart. The analogy "like flies to schit" comes to mind. . .