[rockinqsranch]

Actually that area the crime was committed was Harbor City.

Doesn't really matter though as there is a reason we sold our property in Long Beach in 1987 and moved to this isolated agricultural area. The town which was our lifelong home and source of our business had deteriorated severly.

A recent drive through of Long Beach proved to us beyond a shadow of doubt that we did the right thing.

[Arizona Carolyn]

So sad. I grew up in Palos Verdes and we went to church in Long Beach, when I was a teen we'd go down there to ride the roller coaster (hard to believe we thought that coaster was something in those days), movies and shopping; though most often we went to the Strand for movies and to the beach.

A year ago someone posted a picture of the LA Basin with ten year gaps showing how the growth of immigrants was encroaching on prior middle class areas, and the beach areas was about all that was left of the middle class to upper middle class with the exception of a few areas like S. Orange County. I find it really sad to see this happening, I really loved SoCal.