My wife and I lived (and married in Vallejo) while I was in nuclear power school. It was pretty tame back then.
I kind of like it here, but IMHO, it went downhill after the shipyard closed-destroying almost 7,000 jobs, and when the liberals invaded.
They’ve spent millions to revitalize downtown but do everything they can to drive away any big business that could hire more than a handful of people.
This has always been kind of a rough, blue collar town. They’re trying to turn it into an urbane, sophisticated, artsy and quaint little place. During the last mayoral election, one of the candidates stated in the local paper that he wanted to see more good restaurants in our town.
Lack of gourmet food and hip nightspots is the least of our problems!