California Bad, Texas Good?

[Mr. Deez]

I lived in Walnut Creek and worked in Concord in the early 90’s. The City was horrible then..angry, dirty, and the Embarcadero Freeway was still down from the earthquake. SF was dangerous and full of panhandlers. There were gays with sores all over their faces. I can’t fathom it being any worse than it was then, but it is clearly much worse.

When we first moved there, they used to say, Welcome to Paradise! I had no idea what they were talking about. Having lived in many different states, I can honestly say the Bay Area is the second worse place that I’ve ever lived…Lubbock, my hometown, is #1.

Austin in the 70’s, Maui and Bozeman in the 80’s and Sarasota in the 90’s were altogether paradise.

LOL. I would have killed to live in Walnut Creek or Concord. Those were still very respectable towns in the early '80s. Oakland was basically Mogadishu.