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eastcoastS14 · 12-28-2007, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by ronmcdon

CA is large, and has many diversified areas. I think it really depends where you're at. To date, I have had good luck living in San Francisco and the East Bay (bar Oakland, which I don't care for and try to avoid). I lived there for 4 yrs, and never had a single incident. It was very laid back.

I have mixed luck in Los Angeles. I live in a decent area close to Beverly Hills. Thank goodness I've never had my car stolen. However, there has been numerous incidences here. I had an EG civic coupe, that had it's windows smashed twice. Had a drunk driver total the same EG while it was parked outside my house and then blame me for it (she was from FL, however).
As I said, I also had my S14's windows smashed this year again. My brother's Audi had someone key "F U" all over it. He's quite mellow for the most part, so I doubt he did something that would deserve that.

Around the Silverlake area, I've had my pos honda crx (just had some lousy rotas on) stolen once.

I've also been harassed A LOT by cops in the Orange County area, and they like to make some pretty uncouth assumptions. That area truly horrifies me. The OC is my least fav area anyhow and I avoid it.

I'd (based on my experience) say norcal is laid back, but not so much socal.
Plus, as a lot of ppl in this thread have mentioned, it seems like a lot of ppl in socal have an axe to grind. They tend to overeact very easy and take things personal. there's a lot of hate in the air.

yeah idk ive been to cali once and it was nice.....LA was way shittier than i thought it would be...well more like hollywood and the sunset strip, I went to santa barbara that was incredibly nice and ppl were cool as hell...san diego seemed nice and so did places like santa monica and pasadena, people seemed nice and polite in all those places....I loled at the fact that ppl in cali wait for the light to cross the street even with no cars coming etc. I think ppl over here from what Ive seen are way more on edge...ppl from the east coast just arent really friendly to strangers...rude, in a hurry and just really dont give a fuck about anyone...if youve been here you know what i mean (lol or just watch the departed, its pretty accurate)...but a lot of ppl would rather fuck with you than your car i think....but i guess the more i think of it theres a lot of places in this state i wouldnt leave my car open either cause it would probably get stolen...shit is probably the same all across the US

BustedS13 · 12-28-2007, 04:58 PM

i took this pic in the hollywood hills around april

this is a gay photoshop experiment, but you get the idea

ronmcdon · 12-28-2007, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by kvahag

this is why i want to move on from this car, it has brought me nothing but trouble. i am very attached to it and i had very big plans, but everytime i think about putting it up for sale something prevents it from going on sale. it's freakin' weird. after it gets all fixed and i sell it, i'm thinking about moving on to a 350z. any other ideas for other cars in the 10-20k price range?

On the contrary, I'd suggest you save up maybe 3-4k and get yourself a used banged-up corrolla or something that's reliable, frugual, and already with a questionable condition exterior. Most likely nobody's even going to notice you, let alone going through the trouble of messing up your car. There is something to be said about the joys of owning a pos car.

ronmcdon · 12-28-2007, 05:18 PM

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Originally Posted by BustedS13

i took this pic in the hollywood hills around april

this is a gay photoshop experiment, but you get the idea

I wonder if this is some kind of stupid vandalism trend in Socal. I've seen cars windows smashed like that too (not just my own). Odd thing is that typically only 1 window is smashed, and nothing damaged or stolen besides that. Usually its for older cars, or cars with a 'for sale' sign.

Leads me to believe that it may be overzealous property owners not allowing anything to get in the way of their property value or something silly.

status:one · 12-29-2007, 01:45 PM

damn sorry to hear that... i plan on moving to a 350z also... not for this reason though, I just want to start a new project.

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