I went to this school for three years. Its a very good school with tons of hot foreign girls from rich families. The problem is the faculty. For a supposedly liberal area the faculty is very constricting. I had a friend in the school senate and the things I saw disgusted me. Additionally, the city itself is run by some of the oldest and prudish people of any city anywhere. I would go to the Mexican part of town to eat at night and hang out because people would hang out outside at least a little bit.
When the Thursday night city market was switched to Wednesday there was a huge lock down. 'Cruising' was prohibited with tickets to match and young people were not allowed to hang out *anywhere*. Cops on horseback would intimidate people away. Additionally there are now many rangers sent out to the remote coast one hour a way to chase people off. They throw out excuses like 'the local habitat is being destroyed', 'hot coals could create liability for the state', and 'someone was hurt here a few years ago'.
I think that its fair to say that the bastards running the place have failed to keep the housing prices high, by any means necessary. They have been willing to repress people on any front and the unspoken end all goal has been keeping housing prices high. Well they failed and housing prices have declined as much as 42% in some parts. I hope the leadership of that town chokes on their now worthless houses, because they deserve it.
On the upside, perhaps the young people will start being able to hang out in the parks and social places again. Oh yeah, thats been bad for tourism. So as tourism shrank quicker than the norm they kept paying for surveys to figure out why people didn't want to go to the bars there to buy drinks and hang out after they did everything that they could to make the place undesirable.
Bastards I say. I'm really glad to not be living there anymore. This is California ridiculousness to the extreme. Fuck them.
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I went to this school for three years. Its a very good school with tons of hot foreign girls from rich families. The problem is the faculty. For a supposedly liberal area the faculty is very constricting. I had a friend in the school senate and the things I saw disgusted me. Additionally, the city itself is run by some of the oldest and prudish people of any city anywhere. I would go to the Mexican part of town to eat at night and hang out because people would hang out outside at least a little bit. When the Thursday night city market was switched to Wednesday there was a huge lock down. 'Cruising' was prohibited with tickets to match and young people were not allowed to hang out *anywhere*. Cops on horseback would intimidate people away. Additionally there are now many rangers sent out to the remote coast one hour a way to chase people off. They throw out excuses like 'the local habitat is being destroyed', 'hot coals could create liability for the state', and 'someone was hurt here a few years ago'. I think that its fair to say that the bastards running the place have failed to keep the housing prices high, by any means necessary. They have been willing to repress people on any front and the unspoken end all goal has been keeping housing prices high. Well they failed and housing prices have declined as much as 42% in some parts. I hope the leadership of that town chokes on their now worthless houses, because they deserve it. On the upside, perhaps the young people will start being able to hang out in the parks and social places again. Oh yeah, thats been bad for tourism. So as tourism shrank quicker than the norm they kept paying for surveys to figure out why people didn't want to go to the bars there to buy drinks and hang out after they did everything that they could to make the place undesirable. Bastards I say. I'm really glad to not be living there anymore. This is California ridiculousness to the extreme. Fuck them.