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I grew up in a middle-class Inland Empire suburb. Not Beverly Hills by any stretch, but the climate is mild and the landscape is beautiful.
When I was a kid, houses *were* affordable for an average middle-income family. There was a real sense of community, too. People knew their neighbors, people said 'hi' to each other when they passed on the sidewalks. Violent crime was unheard of. The schools were good. Not Orange County good, but decent. Old folks in town would sit at diners and talk about our high school football team. And this wasn't 70 years ago, it was the early 2000s.
That's all gone now. It's just a giant anonymous international airport, a grab bag of foreigners. Here a Venezuelan, there a Pakistani, the house at the end of the block has five young Chinese men. Did they just move in? Who knows. No one speaks English. No one cares, no one remembers. At CVS, everything is locked in acrylic cages. The schools are terrible. Everyone moved to Texas or Arizona years ago.
I grew up in a middle-class Inland Empire suburb. Not Beverly Hills by any stretch, but the climate is mild and the landscape is beautiful.
When I was a kid, houses *were* affordable for an average middle-income family. There was a real sense of community, too. People knew their neighbors, people said 'hi' to each other when they passed on the sidewalks. Violent crime was unheard of. The schools were good. Not Orange County good, but decent. Old folks in town would sit at diners and talk about our high school football team. And this wasn't 70 years ago, it was the early 2000s.
That's all gone now. It's just a giant anonymous international airport, a grab bag of foreigners. Here a Venezuelan, there a Pakistani, the house at the end of the block has five young Chinese men. Did they just move in? Who knows. No one speaks English. No one cares, no one remembers. At CVS, everything is locked in acrylic cages. The schools are terrible. Everyone moved to Texas or Arizona years ago.
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