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Shantytown, Stockton, California, USA
I made a visit to Stockton, California the other day and came across a jarring sight: an actual shantytown, here in America.
(Click on images for a larger view. Note: all images are Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International by chumbawamba@zerohedge)
This is at the corner of S Grant Street and E Worth Street. To give some geolocational context, this is the start of the neighborhood literally next door to the shantytown:
Here's more of the shantytown, which is sprawled out over several acres, with lots of empty space in between each hovel (for now at least...plenty of room for development!) The first photo is around the corner from the part shown above as viewed from S Stanislaus Street. The second is a few hundred feet away as seen from E Hazelton Avenue:
You'll recall that the City of Stockton declared bankruptcy in 2013. I've had business in Stockton since about 2009, primarily around the dead center of the downtown, and the place is definitely depressed. A lot of small businesses in and around the downtown are closed. A small general store that I patronized to make photocopies one day wasn't there when I needed copies made a few months later. It's hard to even find a convenience or liquor store to get something as simple as a soda. The only place I see doing a bustling business is the county courthouse, and the surrounding legal firms and notaries. I think Stockton will eventually recover, as there are a lot of good real estate deals to be had, and they've made some infrastructure investments and improvements (primarily in prettying up the downtown harbor area with a nice cinema and shops) but any real recovery is probably not going to come until private money starts to flow in to re-develop this old, large and very interesting city. But what do I know. It might just get worse and stay a shithole for decades, like Detroit.
After I got back home I did a search and found this report on a local Fox News affiliate (includes video of the shantytown) from July 10 of this year. It includes this quote:
"People don’t get moved out they’ll sort of set up shop for awhile,” Jon Mendelson, the Associate Director with Central Valley Housing told FOX40. The Central Valley Housing Organization said a lack of shelters and support programs may be contributing to these semi-permanent communities.
"Well the tents and shantytowns are certainly not a permanent solution,” Mendelson claimed.
The organization said a more viable option would be to provide housing and rehabilitation programs.
"It includes just basic life skills and support that a lot of folks on the streets don’t have right now,” Mendelson told us.
They want to teach these people "basic life skills"? I'd say the ability to assemble your own shelter (if crude) is a basic life skill. These people don't need social services, they need a fucking revolution in government, as do we all. The Banksters that have commandeered our government created this fucking disgrace.
I've traveled a fair bit to various parts of the world and have seen shantytowns in the Middle East and central and South America, so it's not like I haven't witnessed something like this before. But when I accidentally came across this shantytown right here in America--the ostensibly "greatest nation on earth"--it was a disconcerting sight. I know we had tent cities form at the peak of the last crisis a few years ago, but this is a straight up shantytown: destitute people making shelters with whatever garbage they can find. As an aside, it should come as no surprise that the streets around this area are filled with hookers, drug dealers, and all manner of shady characters.
A big part of this, I'm sure, is the lack of affordable housing anywhere. These people are just at the last rung of the housing ladder. Housing prices in California (for both sales and rentals) are at all time highs. It's ridiculous. I see shacks in the part of the SF Bay Area where I live renting for $500+/mo.
A big component of this price inflation in housing we have now is the result of unchecked American consumption throughout the 2000s. Sow and reap. Follow me now: the Fed made credit cheap, everyone partook of the credit binge buffet and bought enormous loads of shit like new cars, boats, vacation homes, etc. All this shit (or major components of) was manufactured in China. Americans sent gobs of money to China which, in return, sent back gobs of cheap products and raw materials. So Americans became shit rich but money poor, and the Chinese (the connected ones at least) became nigger rich. Now, these newly rich Chinese with more dollars than they know what to do with, trying to keep them from the clutches of the Chinese government (understandably so), are coming to America with their piles of dollars, and what are they doing with them? Investing in American real estate. Paying cash for million dollar houses, bidding them up 50-100% over asking price. So as a result we have $2 million shacks for sale in Palo Alto, and shantytowns in Stockton.
I saw this coming years ago. Jim Willie talked about a "Chinese colonization" in his newsletters, and that's exactly what is happening. I don't believe it's a concerted strategical move by China (though it could be) but rather the result of an organic move of capital naturally fleeing a despotically greedy regime. Whatever the case, the fact remains the Chinese are taking over California real estate (and I believe single-handedly propping up Tesla), and pricing natives (like me) out of the market, and at the lower end of the spectrum the result of this inflation is shantytowns. Oh well, this is still (if vaguely) a capitalist system. I don't complain, I just wait for the next down cycle (I believe we're peaking now), and will take advantage of Chinese dumping their formerly very desirable California properties for whatever they can get, just like the Japanese had to do in the early 90s after they bought up the USA with all their imported dollars (acquired selling cheap shit to the USA from the 70s through the 80s) and forgot or were just too ignorant to understand that things work in cycles: what goes up shall eventually come down. History doesn't always repeat, but it rhymes, so I'll be a patient boy and wait in the shadows for the next trough.
In the meantime, I expect to see this shantytown expand. Perhaps some cash rich Chinese will come in and buy up the best plots.
I am Chumbawamba.
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"In the meantime, I expect to see this shantytown expand. "
The more popular solution is to send thug cops in to dismantle the camps and chase off the residents. Fresno used this solution for the shantytown that grew up there following the 2008 crash. To date the encampment hasn't returned. What happened to the people? God only knows. Around the country, homeless people are disappearing.
http://s6.zetaboards.com/Free_Thinkers/topic/880287/1/
Among the conspiracy crowd, the word is that mobile execution vans are killing and disposing of homeless people. It's crazy and paranoid.
...but that's what they said about the Nazi concentration camps right up until they were forced to walk through them.
There's some serious stuff going down under our noses. We ignore the stuff we know about and disbelief the stuff we don't. This is how holocausts happen.
use to stop overnight in stockton and ate at the best hamburger joint (nations?)....seemed the drug dealing went on all night in the hotel parking lot. actually seemed safer (from getting the car broken into) because the drug dealers kept a lid on the crackheads. i guess they didnt want to spoil business...
Shantytowns?! Give me a break - call them for what they are: Obamavilles
Have seen the same thing in Seattle, Portland, Adelanto CA (big time), varying tribes of homeless near river off I-15 just north of Victorville CA, Various cities between Albequerque and Roswell NM. It wasn't as bad in LaPaz Bolivia from what I saw. The tent people in Seattle have been forced to move because it hurts the eyes of the beautiful minds that are still gainfully employed.
Good job Chumba. I remember my dad saying the real estate market has topped when the Japanese were piling into US real estate market back then. He was so right. We'll see if history repeats itself.
"Shantytown" LOL. All we see is what looks like a single tent.
Dear All, I have been living in Mexico for almost 19 years now..Where we live, I am the only Asian American with my Mexican wife..SSI converts to $30,000 pesos/month. Rent for a 3 BR house on half an acre with groomed lawn, flowers and fruit trees is $2000 pesos, $140 USD, a month. No, I just recalculated on the current exch rate of 17:1.. It is $119, One Hundred and Ninteen Dollars a Month!. Yes, we have birds which we setout seeds near the windows, butterflies, honey bees and a family of woodpeckers living in the telephone post out front.
Sounds like Heaven, it is. We can even save half of the SSI check. Going back to Playa de Carmen, Tulum where rent is 3x as much, but a paradise with white pearl beaches and world class fly fishing for bone fish and snook etc.Cabo San Lucas, where I lived for 7 years is stunning, but.. die off of sealions, dolphins and turtles found in the Sea of Corez off the Coast of Sonora in eNenews.com.
Heading east away from the FUKU biillion of BQ of Radiation already hitting the Alaska to San Diego West Coast. There is no "safe" level of Radiation. The Cesium takes the place of normal Potassium causing heart attacks, and in general mutates your DNA and Cancer and Birth Defects.
To catch up go to enenews.com and leureinmoret@info.com, Nuclear Coverup. Scroll down the page until you see CPM for the Week. There are over 40 U.S. Cities which is just about all of the USA with CPM counts of over a 1000 to 2000 CPM, where normal background radiation is 5, FIVe. So prepare.. M0Ve! If Mexico gets "hot" then it is South of the equator where all living past Presidents own land in Argentina, Uruguay and Paruguay. esp the Bushies who own one of the largest Aquifirs in the World. One day, soon, H2O will be more important than Petroleum.. You can only go without potable water for a few days. you can google, Bush buys land in Uruguay.
Good Luck, be Safe and God Bless.
Luego Amigos
Clay and Isa
If you Go Down With The Ship in the USA and Canada, you will all be "FUKIeD" DO NOT eAT THe PACIFIC FISH, especially shell fish where it CONCeNTRATeS. Pacific seafood has all disappeard anyway, so you cannot buy it. ALL IN THe FOOD CHAIN NOW. COMPAReD TO SITTING IN FRONT OF THe FIRePLACe, eATING RADIATeD FOOD LIKe PUTTING A HOT COAL IN YOUR MOUTH. It BIOACCUMULATeS.
Need help? stemsmexico@gmail.com.. skyp
Dear All, I have been living in Mexico for almost 19 years now..Where we live, I am the only Asian American with my Mexican wife..SSI converts to $30,000 pesos/month. Rent for a 3 BR house on half an acre with groomed lawn, flowers and fruit trees is $2000 pesos, $140 USD, a month. No, I just recalculated on the current exch rate of 17:1.. It is $119, One Hundred and Ninteen Dollars a Month!. Yes, we have birds which we setout seeds near the windows, butterflies, honey bees and a family of woodpeckers living in the telephone post out front.
Sounds like Heaven, it is. We can even save half of the SSI check. Going back to Playa de Carmen, Tulum where rent is 3x as much, but a paradise with white pearl beaches and world class fly fishing for bone fish and snook etc.Cabo San Lucas, where I lived for 7 years is stunning, but.. die off of sealions, dolphins and turtles found in the Sea of Corez off the Coast of Sonora in eNenews.com.
Heading east away from the FUKU biillion of BQ of Radiation already hitting the Alaska to San Diego West Coast. There is no "safe" level of Radiation. The Cesium takes the place of normal Potassium causing heart attacks, and in general mutates your DNA and Cancer and Birth Defects.
To catch up go to enenews.com and leureinmoret@info.com, Nuclear Coverup. Scroll down the page until you see CPM for the Week. There are over 40 U.S. Cities which is just about all of the USA with CPM counts of over a 1000 to 2000 CPM, where normal background radiation is 5, FIVe. So prepare.. M0Ve! If Mexico gets "hot" then it is South of the equator where all living past Presidents own land in Argentina, Uruguay and Paruguay. esp the Bushies who own one of the largest Aquifirs in the World. One day, soon, H2O will be more important than Petroleum.. You can only go without potable water for a few days. you can google, Bush buys land in Uruguay.
Good Luck, be Safe and God Bless.
Luego Amigos
Clay and Isa
If you Go Down With The Ship in the USA and Canada, you will all be "FUKIeD" DO NOT eAT THe PACIFIC FISH, especially shell fish where it CONCeNTRATeS. Pacific seafood has all disappeard anyway, so you cannot buy it. ALL IN THe FOOD CHAIN NOW. COMPAReD TO SITTING IN FRONT OF THe FIRePLACe, eATING RADIATeD FOOD LIKe PUTTING A HOT COAL IN YOUR MOUTH. It BIOACCUMULATeS.
Need help? stemsmexico3--skyp
Dear All, I have been living in Mexico for almost 19 years now..Where we live, I am the only Asian American with my Mexican wife..SSI converts to $30,000 pesos/month. Rent for a 3 BR house on half an acre with groomed lawn, flowers and fruit trees is $2000 pesos, $140 USD, a month. No, I just recalculated on the current exch rate of 17:1.. It is $119, One Hundred and Ninteen Dollars a Month!. Yes, we have birds which we setout seeds near the windows, butterflies, honey bees and a family of woodpeckers living in the telephone post out front.
Sounds like Heaven, it is. We can even save half of the SSI check. Going back to Playa de Carmen, Tulum where rent is 3x as much, but a paradise with white pearl beaches and world class fly fishing for bone fish and snook etc.Cabo San Lucas, where I lived for 7 years is stunning, but.. die off of sealions, dolphins and turtles found in the Sea of Corez off the Coast of Sonora in eNenews.com.
Heading east away from the FUKU biillion of BQ of Radiation already hitting the Alaska to San Diego West Coast. There is no "safe" level of Radiation. The Cesium takes the place of normal Potassium causing heart attacks, and in general mutates your DNA and Cancer and Birth Defects.
To catch up go to enenews.com and leureinmoret@info.com, Nuclear Coverup. Scroll down the page until you see CPM for the Week. There are over 40 U.S. Cities which is just about all of the USA with CPM counts of over a 1000 to 2000 CPM, where normal background radiation is 5, FIVe. So prepare.. M0Ve! If Mexico gets "hot" then it is South of the equator where all living past Presidents own land in Argentina, Uruguay and Paruguay. esp the Bushies who own one of the largest Aquifirs in the World. One day, soon, H2O will be more important than Petroleum.. You can only go without potable water for a few days. you can google, Bush buys land in Uruguay.
Good Luck, be Safe and God Bless.
Luego Amigos
Clay and Isa
If you Go Down With The Ship in the USA and Canada, you will all be "FUKIeD" DO NOT eAT THe PACIFIC FISH, especially shell fish where it CONCeNTRATeS. Pacific seafood has all disappeard anyway, so you cannot buy it. ALL IN THe FOOD CHAIN NOW. COMPAReD TO SITTING IN FRONT OF THe FIRePLACe, eATING RADIATeD FOOD LIKe PUTTING A HOT COAL IN YOUR MOUTH. It BIOACCUMULATeS.
Need help? stemsmexico3., mail: st
Dear All, I have been living in Mexico for almost 19 years now..Where we live, I am the only Asian American with my Mexican wife..SSI converts to $30,000 pesos/month. Rent for a 3 BR house on half an acre with groomed lawn, flowers and fruit trees is $2000 pesos, $140 USD, a month. No, I just recalculated on the current exch rate of 17:1.. It is $119, One Hundred and Ninteen Dollars a Month!. Yes, we have birds which we setout seeds near the windows, butterflies, honey bees and a family of woodpeckers living in the telephone post out front.
Sounds like Heaven, it is. We can even save half of the SSI check. Going back to Playa de Carmen, Tulum where rent is 3x as much, but a paradise with white pearl beaches and world class fly fishing for bone fish and snook etc.Cabo San Lucas, where I lived for 7 years is stunning, but.. die off of sealions, dolphins and turtles found in the Sea of Corez off the Coast of Sonora in eNenews.com.
Heading east away from the FUKU biillion of BQ of Radiation already hitting the Alaska to San Diego West Coast. There is no "safe" level of Radiation. The Cesium takes the place of normal Potassium causing heart attacks, and in general mutates your DNA and Cancer and Birth Defects.
To catch up go to enenews.com and leureinmoret@info.com, Nuclear Coverup. Scroll down the page until you see CPM for the Week. There are over 40 U.S. Cities which is just about all of the USA with CPM counts of over a 1000 to 2000 CPM, where normal background radiation is 5, FIVe. So prepare.. M0Ve! If Mexico gets "hot" then it is South of the equator where all living past Presidents own land in Argentina, Uruguay and Paruguay. esp the Bushies who own one of the largest Aquifirs in the World. One day, soon, H2O will be more important than Petroleum.. You can only go without potable water for a few days. you can google, Bush buys land in Uruguay.
Good Luck, be Safe and God Bless.
Luego Amigos
Clay and Isa
If you Go Down With The Ship in the USA and Canada, you will all be "FUKIeD" DO NOT eAT THe PACIFIC FISH, especially shell fish where it CONCeNTRATeS. Pacific seafood has all disappeard anyway, so you cannot buy it. ALL IN THe FOOD CHAIN NOW. COMPAReD TO SITTING IN FRONT OF THe FIRePLACe, eATING RADIATeD FOOD LIKe PUTTING A HOT COAL IN YOUR MOUTH. It BIOACCUMULATeS.
Need help? stemsmexico3. st
Dear All, I have been living in Mexico for almost 19 years now..Where we live, I am the only Asian American with my Mexican wife..SSI converts to $30,000 pesos/month. Rent for a 3 BR house on half an acre with groomed lawn, flowers and fruit trees is $2000 pesos, $140 USD, a month. No, I just recalculated on the current exch rate of 17:1.. It is $119, One Hundred and Ninteen Dollars a Month!. Yes, we have birds which we setout seeds near the windows, butterflies, honey bees and a family of woodpeckers living in the telephone post out front.
Sounds like Heaven, it is. We can even save half of the SSI check. Going back to Playa de Carmen, Tulum where rent is 3x as much, but a paradise with white pearl beaches and world class fly fishing for bone fish and snook etc.Cabo San Lucas, where I lived for 7 years is stunning, but.. die off of sealions, dolphins and turtles found in the Sea of Corez off the Coast of Sonora in eNenews.com.
Heading east away from the FUKU biillion of BQ of Radiation already hitting the Alaska to San Diego West Coast. There is no "safe" level of Radiation. The Cesium takes the place of normal Potassium causing heart attacks, and in general mutates your DNA and Cancer and Birth Defects.
To catch up go to enenews.com and leureinmoret@info.com, Nuclear Coverup. Scroll down the page until you see CPM for the Week. There are over 40 U.S. Cities which is just about all of the USA with CPM counts of over a 1000 to 2000 CPM, where normal background radiation is 5, FIVe. So prepare.. M0Ve! If Mexico gets "hot" then it is South of the equator where all living past Presidents own land in Argentina, Uruguay and Paruguay. esp the Bushies who own one of the largest Aquifirs in the World. One day, soon, H2O will be more important than Petroleum.. You can only go without potable water for a few days. you can google, Bush buys land in Uruguay.
Good Luck, be Safe and God Bless.
Luego Amigos
Clay and Isa
If you Go Down With The Ship in the USA and Canada, you will all be "FUKIeD" DO NOT eAT THe PACIFIC FISH, especially shell fish where it CONCeNTRATeS. Pacific seafood has all disappeard anyway, so you cannot buy it. ALL IN THe FOOD CHAIN NOW. COMPAReD TO SITTING IN FRONT OF THe FIRePLACe, eATING RADIATeD FOOD LIKe PUTTING A HOT COAL IN YOUR MOUTH. It BIOACCUMULATeS.
Need help? stemsmexico3. mail: stemsmexcio@gmail.com
A quintruple post all in one post. What happened, did you have a seizure right when you hit the paste button?
Everything sounds peachy, though, untill the US goes belly up and the SSI runs out. You are a king amoung FSAers.
All you need is a sustainable business for SHTF. I panicked last year when I considered life in a foriegn country with no cheese.
Go long on gold dredge???
his exposure to the radiation was worse than he realized.
Who runs bartertown https://youtu.be/Hgq4w4dqKsU
Dear All, I have been living in Mexico for almost 19 years now..Where we live, I am the only Asian American with my Mexican wife..SSI converts to $30,000 pesos/month. Rent for a 3 BR house on half an acre with groomed lawn, flowers and fruit trees is $2000 pesos, $140 USD, a month. No, I just recalculated on the current exch rate of 17:1.. It is $119, One Hundred and Ninteen Dollars a Month!. Yes, we have birds which we setout seeds near the windows, butterflies, honey bees and a family of woodpeckers living in the telephone post out front.
Sounds like Heaven, it is. We can even save half of the SSI check. Going back to Playa de Carmen, Tulum where rent is 3x as much, but a paradise with white pearl beaches and world class fly fishing for bone fish and snook etc.Cabo San Lucas, where I lived for 7 years is stunning, but.. die off of sealions, dolphins and turtles found in the Sea of Corez off the Coast of Sonora in eNenews.com.
Heading east away from the FUKU biillion of BQ of Radiation already hitting the Alaska to San Diego West Coast. There is no "safe" level of Radiation. The Cesium takes the place of normal Potassium causing heart attacks, and in general mutates your DNA and Cancer and Birth Defects.
To catch up go to enenews.com and leureinmoret@info.com, Nuclear Coverup. Scroll down the page until you see CPM for the Week. There are over 40 U.S. Cities which is just about all of the USA with CPM counts of over a 1000 to 2000 CPM, where normal background radiation is 5, FIVe. So prepare.. M0Ve! If Mexico gets "hot" then it is South of the equator where all living past Presidents own land in Argentina, Uruguay and Paruguay. esp the Bushies who own one of the largest Aquifirs in the World. One day, soon, H2O will be more important than Petroleum.. You can only go without potable water for a few days. you can google, Bush buys land in Uruguay.
Good Luck, be Safe and God Bless.
Luego Amigos
Clay and Isa
If you Go Down With The Ship in the USA and Canada, you will all be "FUKIeD" DO NOT eAT THe PACIFIC FISH, especially shell fish where it CONCeNTRATeS. Pacific seafood has all disappeard anyway, so you cannot buy it. ALL IN THe FOOD CHAIN NOW. COMPAReD TO SITTING IN FRONT OF THe FIRePLACe, eATING RADIATeD FOOD LIKe PUTTING A HOT COAL IN YOUR MOUTH. It BIOACCUMULATeS.
Need help? stemsmexico3.
USA USA USA
That shantytown has some potential as a barter center. Its going to start somewhere. They dont need many of the monopolies things now. They cannot afford them. They have nothing the taxman wants. They are down to basics already. They sure dont need cops to save them.I betcha they have a system of real swift justice in place now. Without lawyers!
Given a little time nessecity will take over. It was the government in Stockton that failed at every level. Not the people.
From just this kind of humble start. I wonder what might grow.
Shanty Town? Is that a PC way of saying Obamaville?
I'll take Chinese oligarchs over illegal immigrants or Syrian refugees any day. The Chinese come with their own money.
I think the proper term is "obamavilles". After the person who stopped even pretending to enforce any immigration laws or secure our borders.
When I grew up, nigger rich meant someone who got paid on friday, then didn't show back up to work until they were tapped out, asking for their job back. Don't see how this applies to rich chinese bidding up US residential real estate. If I recall correctly, the japanese were overpaying for commercial real estate, not residential real estate.
There are places like this all over Portland. Maybe not as large, but street people here set up their camps wherever theres an open lot.
Don't know if he still does it or not, but my brother-in-law used to pay his construction workers on Mondays. It gave him the weekend to work up the payroll and he hoped that it helped keep them from blowing it as quickly.
Shanty town? Stockton was a dangerous ghetto 30 years ago. Gun shots and sirens all night long and roosters crowing at 5 AM.
Gentrification from parts of Oakland and East Palo Alto throughout the past (20-odd) years, has been a major contributor to the Stockton phenomenon. That said, as a best friend's 90 year old mother once quipped many years back:
'Just because you're poor, doesn't mean you have to be a slob...'
Regarding the expansion of the 'Bay Area' to now include the Tracy/Stockton areas:
Much of this is also predicated on the past 20 years of 'cheap $money' as Mr. Chumblez eluded to. That will end. And while we don't know precisely when, a migration out of CA comparable to, or greater than, the dustbowl era of the early 20th century, makes for some interesting thought... The 'miracle' of Silicon Valley will end. And with it, all of the downstream Bay Area economy which rides on the coattails, not much different than the 'economy' that rode the tails of housing crash #1.
Apparently the next "get away from the bay area (Dodge)" oasis is the Reno/Tahoe area. That's where it's headed and if your smart you'll buy all the land you can out there.
'Just because you're poor, doesn't mean you have to be a slob...'
Tell that to the FSA and most illegals flooding into the country.....tho the FSA takes the cake on that one....
Alert the recruiters from the Free Shit Army! That shantytown footprint is neither green nor sustainable!
this is the way they live in Mexico, cental and and south america, so why wouldn't they live like that here? Democrats want the votes and the republican establishment wants the cheap labor.
Yes, it always mystifies me why blue collar dems would vote for a Democrat, since the Dems (think Cliton, Obama for example) import the cheapest labor ever which in turn puts the low IQ American blue collar worker out of a job.
"...the low IQ American..."
There's your answer.
If you are in California please stay there.
oh, i fully intend to!
http://www.snowcrest.net/camera/highres.php
The Promised Land was a fraud.
Nice article Chumblz, keep them coming! I remeber years ago having the pleasure of reading your stuff.
You do realize I'll be expecting more of this ass kissing in the chatroom now.
-Chumblez.
Looks nothing like my neighborhood in Stockon Chumblez! But there are def some bad areas
You mean there is more than one street in Stockton. I'm shocked
Oh I'm sure you'll get plenty with gems like "nigger rich". I think people using that word should post using their real name, otherewise it's kind of a bitch move.
Stop pullin' yer punches Chumbles, tell us how ya really feel!
Well, you don't have to be a nigger about it bitch.
I always look at it this way, if the word "nigger" offends you, you are probably one.
'Nigger Rich?" well that's all of China isn't it?
It's part of their strategical
35.7% of Stockton's population is of Mexican descent, whites were 22.9% of the population in 2010 (down from 57.1% in 1980)....Stockton looks a lot like Tijuana after decades of invasion.
Moar diversity forced on Americans. Germans are experiencing this right now.
drove by in 2012 on my way out of Cali, no thanks!
Time for enterprising white people to migrate south, find some cheap land below the border and start over. Personally I'd skip most of Mexico and Central America as well as several countries in South America. That still leaves a huge, affordable area with a range of pleasant climates spread over the remaining countries from sea level to 10,000 ft. Imagine it and you can find it, including some very European-like enclaves, and they aren't all neo-Nazi.
Surely, the murder rate deserves mention.
>> I see shacks in the part of the SF Bay Area where I live renting for $500+/mo.
$500 in the Bay Area? Not within living memory methinks:
https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-santa-clara-rent-trends/
Rent trend data in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara Average Rent As of August 2015, average apartment rent within 10 miles of Santa Clara, CA is $2939.
One bedroom apartments in Santa Clara rent for $2505 a month on average and two bedroom apartment rents average $3079.
I literally mean shacks, or just about. And I'm talking about the outer reaches of the SF Bay to illustrate just how ridiculous the market is right now for renters. Your numbers show how high the prices are in the prime areas. But in this case I had in mind Tracy, which is not really geographically part of the SF Bay but enough people now live and commute from there that it is becoming so. And there, you can't even find a scabby backyard bungalow for under $800. This is a ~2 hour commute at least into SF or the Silicon Valley proper (and it's only 60 miles away, traffic is horrific).
-Chumblez.
don't have a link, but there have been several aticles where companies are turning shippping containers into apartmens and then stacking them like chordwood
I have the link:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-03/rent-too-damn-high-san-fran-res...
One of my favorite film makers just posted this on her channel about SF Bay Area housing alternatives...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWIJc144mgQ
DaddyO
PS: Good Post, Chumba!
Stockton is such a meth-laden fuckhole, this doesn't surprise me at all.