Yes, I moved here in 1999 and the city was clean and safe. Now Division street is filled with empty retail stores and trash every ware.
The massive development of apartment building on the north end near Wondermere has been a disaster. There simply isn't enough infrastructure to support all the new people. The apartments are just a future ghetto in the making
As soon as the new apartments were occupied the graffiti started showing up. The graffiti was not the local type stuff you would expect like "Jonny Loves Mary". Its was gang related MS-13 type stuff.
Having grown up in So/Cal I could reading the writing on the wall so to speak and instinctively new it was time to move farther away.
I moved out to Sun Crest and I'm loving it. I avoid going back to Spokane whenever I don't have to.
City planners are fools.
“...gang related MS-13 type stuff.”
Exactly right. I saw that happen in Silicon Valley. Almost no graffiti in the 70s and 80s, then it started creeping in and now it looks like South Los Angeles.