Comments on: Weekend Getaway: In Search Of America’s Foreclosure Nightmare

By: Nobody

Nobody — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 02:47:35 +0000

Mercs? Mercurys? Oh, you mean Benzos.

By: Laius

Laius — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:57:04 +0000

What a glorious civilization we Americans have built! And we deride France. The frontier mentality will never die here and we will continue to crap up the land.

By: d0man72

d0man72 — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:20:44 +0000

out of the 500,000 Israelis that have duel ISraeli USA citizenship, 300,000 of them live in Cali. West Coast already under Jew control, which is probably the reason why the west side is the best side.

By: duke

duke — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:36:18 +0000

It might exist in the rest of Cali as well, but a company in the Lake Elsinore area offers tours of their McMansion/Stepford deadzones…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:23:13 +0000

Ahh, yeah, Tel Aviv, that’s a really good point.

The US could probably help ourselves as well as the Palestinians by making it stupidly easy for Israelis to become American citizens and move here, and then slowly and gently phasing out the military and no-strings financial aid we send Israel…

By: d0man72

d0man72 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:33:55 +0000

19. Frankenblank My point was for a state that has the 8th largest economy in the world, has important world technological hubs, the most military bases than any other state in the union (look at California’s war on terrorism casualties) and has a significant influence on world culture, Cali has alot of suburban devoid dead zones. Suburban expansion over the years messed up California along with suburban expansion in the rest of the nation. China builds like thousands of sky scappers per year while America has ghetto crack towns in the centers and land of the suburban commuter drivers who spent most of their lives commuting in their cars and living in cultural devoid places and act more like demanding consumers to their govt. rather than citizens.

By: d0man72

d0man72 — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:52:09 +0000

to 18. Anonymous Tel Aviv, Israel might be considered the first. Its referred to as a “mini-Los Angeles” by the Economist. Many computer scientists from the former Soviet Union live and work in Tel Aviv and is considered top 10 influential tech hubs of the world.

By: aleke

aleke — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:20:08 +0000

So, Gooftroop, how about that PR blog commentator job? I’m looking to supplement my wealth in the Cash Flow Game 2009

By: Frankenblank

Frankenblank — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:03:00 +0000

*Even* Asian cities? That’s a laugh. No one does cities the way Asian people do. If you want to see what a *real* city looks like, go to Asia. Everything else is just several million people spread out in the burbs, with one or two ‘cultural’ things in the vicinity of the CBD. It’s like saying *even* Lennox Lewis could punch out the local wheelchair-bound midget with spina bifida.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 04:49:39 +0000

I just love how melodramatically the trash-out guy at 4:26 with the gloves on hams it up, WITHOUT TAKING OFF THE SUNGLASSES. Goddamned Los Angeles. The boss seemed sincere though. And I am pleasantly surprised that they at least tried giving the stuff to charity, and that the grass paint is biodegradeable.

Baltimoron, the Exile is aware of Sheriff Joe:
http://exiledonline.com/daily-inquisition-sheriff-joe-arpaio/
http://exiledonline.com/sheriff-joe-arpaio-gets-tv-show-on-fox/

I hate to admit it, but Gooftroop has a point. Maybe the mindless sprawl beast will keep growing with only a slight hiccup, oozing from oil to gas and coal and uranium and electric cars. And if Gooftroop really is on the dole in the USA and writing a novel, then as far as I’m concerned the poor guy is welcome to use what little tax money he gets from us on alcohol. It won’t fix any of his problems but it might ease his pain a little.

d0man72, if Silicon Valley is the 2nd most important technological center in the world, what’s #1? Taipei? Tokyo? NYC? Shanghai? Mumbai? Now that Detroit is firmly out of the running, I’m not sure I can think of any other places really known primarily for engineering rather than finance or manufacturing or art and fashion. Engineering work is pretty evenly distributed.

By: hydroponic

hydroponic — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:56:58 +0000

Why no mention of Visalia/Tulare/Porterville… CA’s hottest, meanest, dumbest metropolitan area? My guess would be that hick developers ran wild down there during the boom. But only a truly heroic war correspondent would take that assignment.

By: d0man72

d0man72 — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:18:02 +0000

This is not only in California thats happening mass suburbanization is happening across the whole country. American cities are composed of crack town ghettos in the centers and culturaly devoid land of commuter driver consumers in the suburbs. American cities are sad. Even Asian cities look way cooler than American cities.

http://tigbiz.com/Images/guanzhou_night.jpg

http://www.online-travel-packages.com/travelImages/singapore.jpg

Whenever somebody things about Stockton, Fresno, Riverside, Bakersfield, Victorville, Santee, Irvine, Modesto, and San Jose its like who gives a fuwk? what are those places known for anyways?

San Fransico is the only thing thats worth caring about in Cali.

By: d0man72

d0man72 — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:11:58 +0000

California has the most military bases than any other state (just look at California’s war on terrorism casualties), the 8th largest economy in the world (for now), houses Silicon Valley, California the 2nd most important technological center in the world, and is the state that is in the forefront of alternative energy and technology. The city of L.A. has more influence on world culture than any other city in the world. Suburbia is what fuwked up California over the long wrong. The whole place is devoid of cultural outlets and everything is land of the tract houses with superfreeways running for miles. Land of the automobiles, tract homes, and superfreeways is all Cali has going for it. California is incapable of having its own intellectual pool of people it has to import it from other states because the natives drop out of high school. Not to mention California is over taxed by the federal govt. and the govt. re-distributes the money to the GOP states yet the native Californians are too clueless and too pussy sh*T to start their own militias to stand up to it becuase the whole place has no identity.

By: Gooftroop

Gooftroop — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:41:31 +0000

I’m living off the dole, actually, chap, while I write the great American novel. Thanks for your tax dollars, they make going to the bar at noon so much fun!

By: Brody

Brody — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:38:35 +0000

I am assuming Valencia, California must be looking shitty right now. I visited a couple times when my friends were at CalArts. The town was only created in the eighties, and is full of McMansions and is anchored by mini malls with the usual chain store suspects. So devoted to the shitty parts of Anywhere USA that its a bit surreal, albeit in a boring way, not in a Dali kind of way. The commute from LA is probably two and a half hours with traffic at rush hour.

For a place full of beauty and intellectual firepower, Cali sure has a lot of dead zones with vapid, bone-dry suburban cultural voids. Stockton, Fresno, Riverside, Bakersfield, Victorville, Santee, Irvine, Modesto, and San Jose, perhaps the most non-descript large city in America.

By: DocAmazing

DocAmazing — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:11:44 +0000

Y’mean Bakersfield?

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:12:39 +0000

bakersville. bakersville. BAKERSVILLE.

By: 28

28 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:21:33 +0000

@Gooftroop: I’m going to be leaving my job soon, but I’m interested in being a professional PR co. blog commenter. Does you company let you telecommute?

By: FloridaLotteryWinningNumber

FloridaLotteryWinningNumber — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:03:26 +0000

Very good post

By: Jasen Comstock

Jasen Comstock — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:11:56 +0000

WoooooHoooooo Victorville! I spent three years of high school living in that miserable shithole. three years competing with college grads for jobs at fast food restaurants because they went insane with the 4 hour daily commute to LA. I had to join the military to get out of it.

Stockton doesn’t have shit on Victorville.