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Originally Posted by Alansglide
I was born at St. Jo's in Burbank and raised in Sherman Oaks. Went to UCLA and then did three years elsewhere for uncle Sam. I remember cruising Van Nuys Blvd and watching the guys race on Mulholland at night. I stayed in the valley after I retired but things changed so drastically within the last 15 years I just couldn't find a reason to stay. Road conditions became hazardous to nice cars and the nasty attitudes of other drivers became dangerous. Store clerks seemed to all have a chip on their shoulder as if the store was doing me a favor by selling to me.
I still love California but couldn't take it anymore. I sold my house and moved to Summerlin NV and while its not paradise it is a whole lot better. People are friendly to a fault and the weather while not valley nice is not bad ( I'm about 800 feet higher than Las Vegas ). Would I move back to Cal ? Not unless things changed dramatically.
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I am a NW Centennial Hills boy..
The LV Strip is THUG TOWN lots of fights shootings and other assorted mayhem. A friend works for the numero.uno.jeweler in the world..they had a shooting right in the valet of the place he works..Cheap rooms brings in the rif raff from LA, Chicago and Detroit..those with welfare checks to blow.
LV summers are tough...no getting around it. The dirty little secret here is that the MD's here are Trade School dropouts so they went into medicine cause they knew they could get a job in NV.
I am thinking of moving away because of it..as i get older i am going to need more care. It took a friend 3 months to get a biospy for a tumor on her chest wall because of cluster fks. it was cancer but luckily for her stage 1..
And sadly no more buffets.
This town has taken a page right out of the Grapes of Wrath. Lots of people in U hauls moving back home to where family is .when the moratoriums end the shyte is gona hit the fan. Lots of desperate people.
I talk lots of Macro econ shyte but every once in awhile i get the smell from the streets and it is gd hellacious out there.
The item that continually sells in large numbers and out of at SAMS Club are the small freezers. I will see 30 or 40 of them come in and in a few days gone. The only thing moving quicker is guns an ammo.
When i look into the Deep the Equation comes up snake eyes we are tottering on the brink of the abyss. A food for thought is it took the FED 3T and Congress 2.5T to stop the panic over a 6 week period in March. They went all in as if there was no tomorrow and would gone to the limit of their ability if they had to.
Any way i have some HM Kiebasas smoking wt Cherry Wood. Made some hellacious Brown Sugar brined Smoked Salmon over Apple Wood. I didn't think I could eat 5lbs that fast... Just using one of those cheap azz Little Chief smokers that I found at a Thrift for $35.