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Fox news just reported at the top of the hour that you and the others were held hostage for THREE hours. That is a looong time. I am so glad you're fine. I moved out of the San Fernando Valley (Northern LA county, the Northridge-Chatsworth area) after living and working there for many years, in 2015. I saw an increasing amount of criminal and weird/violent conduct that made it stressful and just plain unpleasant to continue living there, despite the amazing weather. Saw a lot of gang related stuff happening in the Valley, a lot of gun fire late at night, LAPD choppers with their search lights on - circling around and around my neighborhood at least twice a week usually at night but during the day sometimes too, once a cop car slammed into the big tree in my front yard while chasing a suspect, etc.

I now live in New England where I grew up, and enjoy it so much. Here in New Hampshire, if you hear gunfire it is ALWAYS friends and neighbors peacefully practicing at the town's outdoor range - it's not illegal criminal gangs over in Winnetka like it used to be. I moved from a heavily Dem CA district to a heavily Rep (GOP) NH town, the difference is night & day. Folks actually leave their doors open if they go to town for groceries, everyone helps out and are respectful of private property, etc. Love it here.

“Here in New Hampshire, if you hear gunfire it is ALWAYS friends and neighbors peacefully practicing at the town’s outdoor range”

When we moved to TN we heard shooting all around us a lot of the time. It was neighbors on their own land. I smiled. Freedom. The prior owner of our house had set up a shooting range on our property, but we never used it.

“I moved out of the San Fernando Valley (Northern LA county, the Northridge-Chatsworth area) after living and working there for many years, in 2015. “

A couple of years ago, I went with a Black friend, and former LAPD officer who had “retired” to the East Bay, to work as Course Marshals at the Long Beach Grand Prix. On the way home, he suggested that we stop at a burger joint on Sepulveda in the Valley to get something to eat before hitting I-5. Having looked at a job change that would have taken me to Chatsworth, some year ago, I was shocked at how the area had changed. My Black, former cop friend, commented that “we should have been carrying.” Illegal immigration has destroyed Los Angeles County.