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Hogwash

Hogwash

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Plays in the street as the cold wind blows
In the ghetto...



I just got back from house hunting in East Palo Alto, the 1992 murder capital of the U.S., 42 homicides in 2 square miles that year. Lately it's been more like half a dozen each year, mostly drug dealers and gang bangers, if you're not mixed up with that crowd it's pretty safe.

Any way, the place was owned by a couple of drug dealers and crack heads. They almost burned it down, then one of them went to prison and the other left. It's definitely a fixer upper.

On the good side it's an easy commute to work and it's very centrally located, just a bridge away from Fremont and the east bay, not far from the south bay and closer to San Francisco than I live now. It's only a short drive west to regular Palo Alto, the home of Stanford University, a whole bunch of venture capitalists and many nice restaurants. The back yard is big enough to hold any stump I can find (that's Busse content).

If I can get it cheap enough, it might just be the shack of my dreams.
 
Good luck with the place. East Palo Alto is a whole lot better these days. I'll still make sure to pack my G26 when I come visit. :D Heck I still remember when I was robbed at gun point there back in 1996 or so. That reminds me....at that point I was still able to fish on the San Mateo Pier until the few incidents or robbery and homicide that eventually shut the pier down :grumpy:
 
I was always amazed at the houses in East Palo Alto compared to the type of homes that were just over the 101 in Palo Alto when I visited my then gf at Stanford.
 
Yeah, the houses are not much to look at but I hope I can lure some of the coeds over there.

I need to marry an earner!
 
I just hafta add:

I have a great woman. Who else would marry a man AFTER finding out he had cancer. And as for the car thing, well,, the Jetta was stick, and wifey doesn't wanna drive stick in Miami, so oh well...:D:thumbup:






had to do right by the conscience
 
All I hope is that when I find the right woman she can help with a mortgage payment and won't force me to work my ass off and give up all of my hobbies for one of the $800,000 "nicer" homes.
 
# The city, still reeling from Hurricane Katrina, recorded 209 homicides in 2007
# That's 71 homicides for every 100,000 residents, according to the FBI

Homicide rate nowhere near ’94 peak but still 10 times national average

NEW ORLEANS - Last year, university researchers conducted an experiment in which police fired 700 blank rounds in a New Orleans neighborhood in a single afternoon. No one called to report the gunfire.


Homicides hit their historic peak here in 1994, with 421 dead — more per capita than any other U.S. city that year. (Ahhh...the good years)


Three New Year's Eve killings brought the city's murder total to 161 for 2006, a figure New Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley touted Monday as the lowest total in 30 years.

A few headliners from a place I USED to call home.
 
Excuse me?!?!


I'm sorry I must have misunderstood you....did you say that you are thinking of moving to EPA? No...really?....seriously?...

R U FREAKING KIDDING ME??:eek:​

Hmmmmmm....let's see if I got this straight:

1) Selling off major amounts of INFI and similar Busse material
2) Doing so to buy a fixer upper
3) Looking for fixer upper in EPA
4) Considers EPA not such a bad place to live

Is that about right?


Well I have only one thing to say bro.....Put the Pipe down, you've had wayyyy tooooo much!:p

Seriously man...Tracy, Manteca, hell even Stockton would be better than EPA. Don't do it....you will regret it!

Just my 2 cents
 
Congrats possibly and well wishes for safety.
When I lived in Desert Hot Springs, EPA was one of my haunts. I didn't find it any rougher than when I resided in Salinas.
Anyhow, that was a lifetime ago, and I hope you get what you want.
 
Hogwash said:
Plays in the street as the cold wind blows
In the ghetto...



I just got back from house hunting in East Palo Alto, the 1992 murder capital of the U.S., 42 homicides in 2 square miles that year. Lately it's been more like half a dozen each year, mostly drug dealers and gang bangers, if you're not mixed up with that crowd it's pretty safe.

Any way, the place was owned by a couple of drug dealers and crack heads. They almost burned it down, then one of them went to prison and the other left. It's definitely a fixer upper.

On the good side it's an easy commute to work and it's very centrally located, just a bridge away from Fremont and the east bay, not far from the south bay and closer to San Francisco than I live now. It's only a short drive west to regular Palo Alto, the home of Stanford University, a whole bunch of venture capitalists and many nice restaurants. The back yard is big enough to hold any stump I can find (that's Busse content).

If I can get it cheap enough, it might just be the shack of my dreams.
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Certainly sounds interesting :thumbup: Looks like you have it all mapped out as to how far everything is. I just have one question............How far is the nearest station house from which my brothers can respond to a call for help :foot: :eek: Think long and hard bro, long and hard :thumbup: Good luck :)
 
When I was moving into the house I live in now, one of the guys who was helping me move did a double-take, and then commented on how he bought Crack in my living room back during his younger, druggy days....one of his best friends got shotgunned in the face in the garage next door....great neighborhoods we have here in CA eh?
 
I just wonder if Ahhhhnold knows what's going on there, I mean that dude in the garage "Won't be back" :eek:
 
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