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Just my own experiences this past week in what used to be, not that long ago, a nice city.
1 posted on 05/19/2023 12:17:45 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

That makes me sad. I lived in San Dog from 1994-1997. It was a beautiful city then.


2 posted on 05/19/2023 12:22:53 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
This is worth reading from yesterday's American Thinker:
"The Cataclysm to Come."

It describes what you saw from the bigger picture point of view. You both came to the conclusion "we are done for."

3 posted on 05/19/2023 12:24:54 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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Thanks for that "travelogue'. I grieve for our country. If Governor Reagan was in charge, none of this would have happened.

4 posted on 05/19/2023 12:25:40 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

Vote in an all democrat govt and end up with death and destruction, while they steal all the money. It’s everywhere that democrats rule. But of course the pig headed zombies that vote democrat will never learn.


5 posted on 05/19/2023 12:26:08 PM PDT by Bullish (Either we don't see it coming or they don't... But somebody's got it coming.)
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well, that’s supposed to relive relieve you but one look at the one really scrawny female security guard pretty much put the lie to that.

The worst was when leaving the beach being held up by police cordons and fire trucks…the police actually shied showed up!

Regards,

7 posted on 05/19/2023 12:28:53 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

San Diego was nice 35+ years ago. For everyone else who is not wealthy, who are not able to financially isolate themselves, that place went to hell long ago.

One of their biggest suburbs, El Cajon, is now called, “Little Baghdad”.


8 posted on 05/19/2023 12:30:43 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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I’m on the opposite side of the country, in a rather small sleepy city in eastern NC, population around 30,000.

But I see a lot of the same here. A wooded area adjacent to a WalMart has been turned into an encampment for lowlifes.

Abandoned shopping carts, trash, mattresses, litter the roadway beside the encampment.

It’s not the town I grew up in anymore.


9 posted on 05/19/2023 12:30:46 PM PDT by CodeJockey ("The duty of a true Patriot is to protect his country from its government.” –Thomas Paine)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

I’m on the opposite side of the country, in a rather small sleepy city in eastern NC, population around 30,000.

But I see a lot of the same here. A wooded area adjacent to a WalMart has been turned into an encampment for lowlifes.

Abandoned shopping carts, trash, mattresses, litter the roadway beside the encampment.

It’s not the town I grew up in anymore.


10 posted on 05/19/2023 12:30:46 PM PDT by CodeJockey ("The duty of a true Patriot is to protect his country from its government.” –Thomas Paine)
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I live in North San Diego county.

What you're seeing is primarily the result of closing restaurants and other conveniences we used to enjoy due to the Covid lockdowns.

All these young people lost their jobs and were handed cash to cope with the situation and turned to drugs for whatever reason, don't care.

Now these druggies are a waste of skin that contribute nothing to society while they slowly fade away towards their inevitable early deaths. I've seen them all over this county. They keep attempting to set up shop permanently in the “suburbs”, but we keep moving them along and repairing the damage they leave behind.

Downtown is a joke nowadays. Homeless drug addicts that just gave up on life in general. They refuse any help that will get them off the streets.

Round them up and toss them into the ocean for all I care. They're nothing more than a burden to society at this point and the sooner they kill themselves via OD, the better, IMO.

12 posted on 05/19/2023 12:36:37 PM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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What were once cities are now Urban Reservations for those who will not or can not function in society.


13 posted on 05/19/2023 12:39:30 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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Sounds like you took a wrong turn at Albuquerque, and wound up in San Francisco.........................


14 posted on 05/19/2023 12:40:11 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

I left San Diego in 1977. It was dying even then.


15 posted on 05/19/2023 12:42:57 PM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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With 7M illegals entering into the country by the time O’Biden finishes his first (and hopefully last) term, things may get a lot worse before they get better.


16 posted on 05/19/2023 12:44:38 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
"But this week I witnessed things that are beyond anything I can imagine in a society that even has a modest chance at survival."

You go weekly? And all of what you described happened while you were gone a week?

No, what you see is SD has devolved into LA South, and that didn't happen suddenly. The only difference is there are pockets of SD that are still livable but the barbarians are at the gate.

Kalifornia is finished, and I know a lot of California Freepers are having extended cognitive dissonance about that, but it's a fact.

19 posted on 05/19/2023 12:49:34 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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I went to San Diego last October for a Blue Angels golf tournament in Carlsbad. I lived in the area for a few years in the 1980s when stationed at Camp Pendleton in the Marine Corps.

My experience was much like yours. Bums and druggies everywhere. Even worse, I spent a day at Oceanside Beach, which was my favorite spot to hang out at when off duty. There were broken down vans all down the strip with people living in filth. The stink was terrible and you could tell these people haven't had a proper shower (with soap) in about a year.

Some experiences were good however. I went to Oldtown (just outside Oldtown) for some excellent authentic Mexican food. Also took a tour on the Midway (one of the sponsors of the golf tournament) and ended up spending the entire day there.

But otherwise, this area has gone really downhill.

20 posted on 05/19/2023 12:57:06 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (5,181,324 Truth | 87,174,230 Twitter)
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We moved to Mira Mesa (part of San Diego) in 1982. My wife and I though we had hit the jackpot. Streets safe at night for walking, plentiful stores and shopping, awesome surfing at Black's Beach, the housing was expensive but affordable and the tech jobs were secure and plentiful.

General Dynamics shut down in 1992 and we were forced to move because of my job, along with about 16,000 other people affected by the shutdown. We now live in Arizona but always, like you, made many nostalgia runs to San Diego.

Last year we saw the same decay you described. it was shockingly depressing to see the decline. It has all been given up to the druggies. It was so bad, even at the Embarcadero, we did not want to leave the car unoccupied to watch the harbor Christmas parade of lights as we had done for 30 or so years.

It is beyond a shame, it is a crime what the politicians have done there. Yet, you know, they got voted in by the people that live there. I guess you can fool most of the people most of the time.

21 posted on 05/19/2023 1:00:44 PM PDT by pfflier
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You should see what drug use has done to Portland and SF.
San Diego is nothing compared to those cities.
Coming to the rest of America sooner than you expect.


25 posted on 05/19/2023 1:22:30 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

We used to drive from Tucson to San Diego every summer for vacation. In the mid sixties, it was quite a beautiful place.


26 posted on 05/19/2023 1:23:00 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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What else can one expect from democrat politics?


27 posted on 05/19/2023 1:24:45 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Bookmark


32 posted on 05/19/2023 1:35:05 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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