Gangs? In Palm Desert? LOL!
Are you kidding??? H3ll Yeah!!! Biker gangs love to hang out there...
Riverside and San Bernardino Counties are chock full of gangs.
Home prices have also declined in some areas there by 68% from last year.
I was a block away this morning hitting the Black Friday sales at Circuit City, Best buy and others in the area. Lines last year had formed from about 6pm the night before. This morning the crowds weren’t as bad, but probably 100-200 per store in line since 4am when Best Buy was supposed to open, but delayed until 5am.
The crowds continue to arrive upon opening at 5am for about 30 minutes as even though the crowd moved into the store steadily, the line remained as long outside, maybe 100yds long, 2-5 people wide. Very little street lighting in the area of the parking lots.
We noticed a number of high school to college aged minorities in the area, apparently not familiar with the streets. Over the past 2 years in this area, even where Gerald Ford used to live in Rancho Mirage, there have been several home invasions of upper middle class families and graffitti/tagging, marking territory of MS13 gangs.
Palm Desert is a very vast community ranging from many illegal aliens and Central American immigrants, up to multimillion dollar mansion neighborhoods in gated communities with institutional wealth. It is somewhat buffered between Palm Springs/Cathedral City/Rancho Mirage and Indian Wells/La Quinta/Indio. For those familiar with the movie, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Palm Desert is the desert city just below the opening scene of the movie where Jimmy Durante drives his car off the hairpin desert mountain road and then ‘kicks the bucket’.
The Toys R Us mentioned is on Hwy 111 , one of the closest shopping centers to the Annenburg Estate and Eisenhower Medical Center.
It’s a decent neighborhood with many of the more affordable rental duplexes for lower income families in the valley.