My wife used to work for Alaska airlines in Seattle and we would sometimes go on weekend “day trips” to places like Burbank airport, rent a convertible for the day, and come back that night. It was a lot of fun.
But one day we decided to visit San Francisco by flying to Oakland. We took the bus to the bart station and the crowd there gave us the willies. We’ve been all over the country but that felt so incredibly dangerous that we literally grabbed the next bus back to the airport and hightailed it back to Seattle.
This was about ten years ago. Now that my daughter left Studio City, we don’t expect to ever go to California again in our lifetime. I’ve lived in Vallejo, Napa and Anaheim (all in the 60’s). That state no longer has anything good to offer us and plenty of bad to offer.
That was Livin' the CA Dream"
I lived in Fullerton up to 1997. I went back to visit in 2002 and have not been back since. It is a crime what has happened to California. And I wonder where the bottom is....
Vallejo could be one of the best places to live.
It is a paradox with some good areas and good places.
Other areas are no go areas at night and even during the day.
Vallejo is no longer, a murder capitol. However, its crime rate exceeds California and the nation in most categories:
A comprehensive overview of any and all yearly reported crimes in Vallejo, CA is shown in the table above.
In order to provide more clarity, the total number of crimes is shown as well as the amount of crimes committed per 100,000 people.
The crimes indicated in the table are separated into two different categories. These categories are property crimes and violent crimes.
According to the table, the overall crime rate is 57% higher than the average of crimes committed in California.
It is also 72% higher than the national average. When it comes to violent crimes, Vallejo, CA shows a crime rate that is 71% higher than the California average. The crime rate is also 101% higher than the national average.
When it comes to property crimes, Vallejo, CA is shown to be 54% higher than the California average and 67% higher than the national average.
https://www.areavibes.com/vallejo-ca/crime/
Lived in Vallejo in the 60s eh?
*adds name to list of Zodiac suspects*
I went to Baltimore for a conference somewhere around 2005 or so, and had a hotel within walking distance of the convention center.
They had all these cool walkways and catwalks you could take to go through buildings and such, never had to deal with a crosswalk down below.
That night, walking back, and it was around 5 PM, I noticed that all the bustling places in the buildings I walked through had the bars pulled down, locked up tighter than a gnat’s ass. And there was NOBODY around, which made me feel uneasy. That morning, everything had been bustling on the catwalks, but now...I was the only one.
I opened a door to exit on a walkway over a busy city street thronged with people, and there were three or four “youths” standing in the middle of the bridge blocking the way. When I opened the door, they all turned to look at me, and I just thought “Nope.” and went down into the street.