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"Soft-on-Crime DA Gascon Offers LA ‘Tips’ on Avoiding Vehicle Theft"

Other reminders from the department followed the usual advice police give citizens: Travel in groups, remain in well-lit areas, be aware of your surroundings, always surrender jewelry if someone robs you at gunpoint, etc.

And then there was this: “After shopping, make it a habit to take a different route home and pay attention to vehicles and pedestrians behind you. If you think you are being followed, change your route and call the police.”

Yes, it’s come to this. When you’re on the way home from a high-end shopping trip from The Grove, always make sure to take a different route just in case you’re being followed. Try to plot a zig-zag pattern on city streets using Waze, if at all possible. What’s next? Travel in a motorcade if you can? Make sure your car has at least two inches of armor plating?
 
Lionfish said:
"Soft-on-Crime DA Gascon Offers LA ‘Tips’ on Avoiding Vehicle Theft"

Other reminders from the department followed the usual advice police give citizens: Travel in groups, remain in well-lit areas, be aware of your surroundings, always surrender jewelry if someone robs you at gunpoint, etc.

And then there was this: “After shopping, make it a habit to take a different route home and pay attention to vehicles and pedestrians behind you. If you think you are being followed, change your route and call the police.”

Yes, it’s come to this. When you’re on the way home from a high-end shopping trip from The Grove, always make sure to take a different route just in case you’re being followed. Try to plot a zig-zag pattern on city streets using Waze, if at all possible. What’s next? Travel in a motorcade if you can? Make sure your car has at least two inches of armor plating?
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Carry a gun at all times in shithole cities. Don't just have one in your car. Carry one, locked and loaded.
 
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Lionfish said:
"Soft-on-Crime DA Gascon Offers LA ‘Tips’ on Avoiding Vehicle Theft"

Other reminders from the department followed the usual advice police give citizens: Travel in groups, remain in well-lit areas, be aware of your surroundings, always surrender jewelry if someone robs you at gunpoint, etc.

And then there was this: “After shopping, make it a habit to take a different route home and pay attention to vehicles and pedestrians behind you. If you think you are being followed, change your route and call the police.”

Yes, it’s come to this. When you’re on the way home from a high-end shopping trip from The Grove, always make sure to take a different route just in case you’re being followed. Try to plot a zig-zag pattern on city streets using Waze, if at all possible. What’s next? Travel in a motorcade if you can? Make sure your car has at least two inches of armor plating?
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California is a beautiful state but is basically a shit hole
 
Phantasmal said:
So, you don’t do fine dining, the theater, museums or other arts and concerts? Those are generally more available in bigger cities.
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we have good eats outside the city limits here. same with theater, concert and arts. the Museum here (and its a good one) is in the city limits. Relative to personal safety the need for a city is moot.
 
Celticguy said:
avoid cities may be the easiest solution.
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Everyone is different of course but I couldn't imagine living in the suburbs, let alone a more rural area. I would go f'ing nuts. Of course I understand why cities aren't for everyone. To me there is no right or wrong just personal preference.
 
 
cawacko said:
Everyone is different of course but I couldn't imagine living in the suburbs, let alone a more rural area. I would go f'ing nuts. Of course I understand why cities aren't for everyone. To me there is no right or wrong just personal preference.
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Just curious and if its too personal I understand but what is it that you think you would miss ?

I can understand rural, thats not for everybody.
 
Lionfish said:
"Soft-on-Crime DA Gascon Offers LA ‘Tips’ on Avoiding Vehicle Theft"

Other reminders from the department followed the usual advice police give citizens: Travel in groups, remain in well-lit areas, be aware of your surroundings, always surrender jewelry if someone robs you at gunpoint, etc.

And then there was this: “After shopping, make it a habit to take a different route home and pay attention to vehicles and pedestrians behind you. If you think you are being followed, change your route and call the police.”

Yes, it’s come to this. When you’re on the way home from a high-end shopping trip from The Grove, always make sure to take a different route just in case you’re being followed. Try to plot a zig-zag pattern on city streets using Waze, if at all possible. What’s next? Travel in a motorcade if you can? Make sure your car has at least two inches of armor plating?
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Equal protection of our own laws can increase market friendly participation rather than the inequality, unequal protection of our own laws creates.
 
Celticguy said:
Just curious and if its too personal I understand but what is it that you think you would miss ?

I can understand rural, thats not for everybody.
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I’ve lived in every situation, but live in the suburbs now, we still drive into the city for much of our entertainment. There are venues in the burbs, but they don’t offer what the city does.
 
Celticguy said:
Just curious and if its too personal I understand but what is it that you think you would miss ?

I can understand rural, thats not for everybody.
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I love the action and the energy the City provides. I like being around people and having so much to do at our fingertips.

My sister lives in a suburb about 25 minutes from me. It's full of families and single family homes and I get that appeal. It's just not for me.
 
Celticguy said:
avoid cities may be the easiest solution.
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And safest. If it's wise to carry a gun to live in a particular area it's wiser to live in an area where there's no need to carry.
That's what I did by leaving New Orleans in '91. Maybe the happiest day of my life seeing that skyline in the rear view mirror.
 
Phantasmal said:
I’ve lived in every situation, but live in the suburbs now, we still drive into the city for much of our entertainment. There are venues in the burbs, but they don’t offer what the city does.
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thanks.

could you help me understand what it is that the city venues have that the suburbs do not ?
If your city is rather old I could see perhaps architecture being part of that. My city while quite old lost quite a lot of the really old buildings in the War of Northern Aggression but they have developed an entertainment district in what got built in the late 1800s and early 1900s. I appreciate the old time architectural details as much as the next guy (my grandfather used to hand craft that stuff back in the depression era). There is a growing trend of capturing those things from old structures that are being knocked down and then re-purposing them in new buildings. Got a 2nd or 3rd generation of architectural salvage family who are doing quite well at this.
 
Phantasmal said:
So, you don’t do fine dining, the theater, museums or other arts and concerts? Those are generally more available in bigger cities.
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I don't do any of those.
I was exposed to them greatly when I was a child/teenager.

Fine dining - extravagantly priced, over-salted food. I would literally rather go through a Wendy's or SUBWAY drive thru and eat the food listening/watching whatever I want to in my car/truck.
The theater - a bunch of actors (usually) acting out a play that was written dozens/hundreds of years ago and has been done to DEATH.
Museums - you go once. Why would you need to go back?
Art - a bunch of 'things' that people go to look at and try to sound 'cultured' by giving their individual interpretations of what the works are supposed to mean/represent?
Concerts - so I can squish in with a bunch of morons while I listen to music that sounds not remotely as good as it does on my headphones on my PC/phone?
Pass.

I like cities - but not for those reasons.
 
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