So. How fucked up is your city?

[R-Jack]

The backroads out here are called the meth highway. Take that for what it's worth.

Either way, at least we aren't Hercules.

[ChargerMike]

...you'd have to search far and wide to find a bigger know nothing, ex-gang baning, if my mouths open I'm lying sleeze bag knucklehead than this idiot...


http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/200 ... gosa_N.htm

[Goober McTuber]

City? Our entire state is fucked up right now. We're in the process of fixing things, but it will take a little while.

[Mikey]

Our once bucolic little community is now riven with nightly (OK, monthly) reports of gang violence and narco-terrorism.

http://www.thevillagenews.com/story/57536/

[Goober McTuber]

City? Our entire state is fucked up right now. We're in the process of fixing things, but it will take a little while.

Oh shit! You're not all gonna move down here, are you?!

Just because there's a little trouble in Paradise is no reason to relocate to Hades.

[Goober McTuber]

Calm down, Sam. I’ve been to Alabama. Trust me, I wouldn’t trade Madison, Wisconsin for any place in that shithole of a state.

[mvscal]

I will elaborate in posts to come, but let's read this 4 year old article first.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20979275/ns ... me_oneline

“What we’ve learned is leading a city does take experience. And we have a much more savvy electorate now,” said White, the councilwoman. “We are beyond racial politics. We’re a lot more savvy and discriminating in what we look for. And that’s a good legacy.”

You mean being black wasn't enough and they've learned from their experience? I'll believe that when I see it.

[Carson]

Spray,

I will never bitch about The Gump ever again.

You poor bastard.

[Cuda]

Our once bucolic little community is now riven with nightly (OK, monthly) reports of gang violence and narco-terrorism.

http://www.thevillagenews.com/story/57536/

Why do you hate undocumented DemocRats?

[BSmack]

gang baning

Damn nazi mods.

[indyfrisco]

You might want to see how your city is doing, but look at mine first. :D

This is my city. Crime is almost non-existent here.

Races in zip code 47546:
White population: 20,088
Black population: 50
American Indian population: 0
Asian population: 212
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander population: 1
Some other race population: 0
Two or more races population: 194
Hispanic or Latino population: 755

Not a bad place to live...

http://www.city-data.com/zips/47546.html

Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
Gay men: 0.1% of all households

[Screw_Michigan]

This is my city. Crime is almost non-existent here.

Because nobody lives there and no one else...but you...wants to live there.

[indyfrisco]

This is my city. Crime is almost non-existent here.

Because nobody lives there and no one else...but you...wants to live there.

Let's see...

Median income is 54k
No crime
Top schools in the state
4 seasons
Unemployment around 2% (most of it voluntary as we have job openings everywhere)
Great golf courses
Casino 20 minutes away

Yeah, a WASP's paradise. When you grow up and decide to start a family, you'll want no part of THE DISTRICT!

[RossTheBoss]

Let's see...

Median income is 54k
No crime
Top schools in the state
4 seasons
Unemployment around 2% (most of it voluntary as we have job openings everywhere)
Great golf courses
Casino 20 minutes away

dat sound like my hood, yo. cept da income be way higher. There be straight BALLERS in dis town, yo. i'm just a nigga tryin to sahvive in a white man's world, yo. when my unemployement run out, what i supposed to do? huh? i gots ta feed my baby and my baby mama. i gots ta be a man and PROVIDE. but all deese cats be keepin me down. fuck da haters.

~Realness

[Moving Sale]

Either way, at least we aren't Hercules.

You live in Rodeo you horrid pedophile you might want to back away from the geography smack.

[Moving Sale]

Not a bad place to live...

There is a reason you can buy a house in your neck of the woods for 120k. Cause it's a shit hole and nobody wants to live there.

[Screw_Michigan]

Yeah, a WASP's paradise. When you grow up and decide to start a family, you'll want no part of THE DISTRICT!

Quite possibly, although we'll worry about that when it comes time.

[War Wagon]

There is a reason you can buy a house in your neck of the woods for 120k. Cause it's a shit hole and nobody wants to live there.

Being able to buy a house for 120k doesn't necessarily make a place a shit hole you cum drunk, emminence fronting poseur.

[Goober McTuber]

South Milwaukee's kind of fucked up. At least some of the people in it are pretty fucked up.

When Jordan Cardella's girlfriend broke up with him, he figured his best shot at getting her back was literally a shot.

So he asked his friends to shoot him, and one did exactly that. Seeing him in pain certainly would cause the young woman to have a change of heart and take him back, right?

Not even close. The ex-girlfriend did not come to visit the 20-year-old South Milwaukee man in the hospital as he had hoped. Police, however, did stop by.

At a sentencing hearing for the shooter this month, Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney Christopher Rawsthorne said he meant no disrespect, but "this has to be the most phenomenally stupid case that I have seen. It's unbelievable what happened here."

Michael C. Wezyk and his lawyer didn't disagree.

"I mean, sorry to bring something so stupid into your courtroom," Wezyk, 24, of Cudahy, told Circuit Judge Rebecca Dallet. Wezyk pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of injury by negligent use of a dangerous weapon, a felony.

The judge sentenced him to two years' probation and 100 hours of community service, and at a separate hearing this month, gave the same sentence to Anthony D. Woodall, 20, of South Milwaukee, a friend of Cardella who lined up Wezyk to do the shooting. Woodall was convicted of the same felony as party to a crime. If they both complete probation successfully, the court will consider a motion to expunge this offense from their records.

So far, Cardella has gotten off easiest, if you don't count pain and suffering. Initially, he was charged with obstructing police by lying about what happened, but that charge was dismissed. There's a notation in the court file that the state planned to reissue a felony charge of some kind against him, but the district attorney's office said Tuesday that's unlikely to happen.

The criminal complaint and sentencing transcript tell the story. It begins in January when Cardella shared his plan with Woodall. They would make it look like Cardella was attacked by some bad guys. Woodall would call the ex-girlfriend and tell her Cardella had been shot, which was supposed to make her feel sorry for him.

Cardella, a felon, didn't want to shoot himself because felons aren't supposed to handle firearms. Woodall refused to do the shooting, but he called Wezyk and asked him to do it in exchange for payment in money or pain pills.

Everybody piled into a car. "They drove to a bar in search of a firearm, but eventually went back to Wezyk's residence where Wezyk retrieved a rifle. They drove around for a while to find a place to shoot Cardella, and eventually decided at the location of Beech Street at the Oak Creek Parkway in South Milwaukee," the complaint says.

Wezyk stood 7 to 8 feet from Cardella and asked if he was sure he wanted to be shot.

"Cardella said he was and asked Wezyk to shoot him in the back three times," the complaint says.

That sounds like way more shooting than a guy might need to win back a girlfriend. Cardella also had talked about wanting to be shot in the chest. I couldn't reach him by phone to ask about all this, and he did not return a Facebook message.

The complaint says, "Wezyk then shot Cardella in the arm, and Cardella immediately slumped over. He asked to be shot again, but Wezyk stated, 'I'm done.' "

Now that was wise on his part.

Wezyk took the rifle home, and Cardella and Woodall headed for Aurora St. Luke's South Shore Hospital for treatment and to watch their story unravel.

Prosecutor Rawsthorne told the judge there was one more thing. While awaiting the outcome of this case, Woodall and Wezyk went to deliver marijuana to someone, but it turned out to be grass clippings and/or catnip. The victim complained to police.

Judge Dallet told Wezyk at sentencing that he was lucky Cardella didn't die. She recalled another case in her courtroom involving a guy shot in the arm. The bullet then traveled on, right through his heart.

"What were you thinking?" she asked Wezyk.

"I wasn't," he replied.

[ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2]

We're about 12,000 white, 3,000 black.

26,000 Whites and 360 Nogs in my town. Which seems high to me. I don't know where they all live...

[Moving Sale]

Being able to buy a house for 120k doesn't necessarily make a place a shit hole you cum drunk, emminence fronting poseur.

It means that the supply of houses is greater than the demand so I guess you could overbuild a nice place and have the housing prices take a dump but all the way to 120k? And if you over build a nice place is it still nice? Nobody wants to live in Indy's shit hole corner of the world so the housing market is shit. Can you prove otherwise?

[socal]

Let's see...
Median income is 54k

Why not forgo the permanent structure and get yourself behind the wheel of a 2003 Mercury Mountaineer?
Auto, A/C, Power seats, power moonroof, V6, and only 90K miles.
It's a 2X4WD beast*!

Sin,

Rack Fu


*Do not drive on, over, or near grass clippings.

[Invictus]

Dallas, TX:



Yes, this is blatant baiting!

[Bizzarofelice]

everyday I look at the financials of a city near mine.

everyone who lives in that city should be pissed off.

[Cuda]

Either way, at least we aren't Hercules.

You live in Rodeo you horrid pedophile you might want to back away from the geography smack.

You've got R-Jack mixed up with InkyDave again

[War Wagon]

It means that the supply of houses is greater than the demand so I guess you could overbuild a nice place and have the housing prices take a dump but all the way to 120k? And if you over build a nice place is it still nice? Nobody wants to live in Indy's shit hole corner of the world so the housing market is shit. Can you prove otherwise?

Spoken like a Cali in debt up to his eyeballs.

[Diego in Seattle]

Casino 20 minutes away

Yeah, great to live near one of those.

[Cuda]

What do you brag about, Diego, School yards 5 minutes away?

[ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2]

Great, Diego. A crime happened at one casino, therefore, all casinos and people who live within 20 minutes of them in every direction are in grave danger.

Shouldn't you be stocking the van with candy and getting your rape kit together, you revolting diddler?

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

Come on guys...let's keep this light and fun.

:|

[poptart]

My city's not listed.

[R-Jack]

My city's not listed.

Dogs can't type.

[Dinsdale]

There is a reason you can buy a house in your neck of the woods for 120k. Cause it's a shit hole and nobody wants to live there.

Being able to buy a house for 120k doesn't necessarily make a place a shit hole you cum drunk, emminence fronting poseur.

You can buy a house for 120K here... but it needs work, and you're dodging bullets.

So yeah -- if you can buy a decent house for 120K... it's a shithole. Or do I need to explain that whole supply/demand thing to you?


Although... BoA and the other Criminals are starting to list more... if you've got some dough, time, and handiness, there's some $$$ to be made.

dough, time, and handiness

Does 2 out of 3 count for anything?


I know of about 3 places I could pick up for about 130K that are a gold mine right now.

The 130K is the big holdup on my big plans.


With short sales/bank owneds, cash talks. "Maybe" financing walks. The rich get richer.

Too entrenched in power to fail.

Thatwas actually a neat trick -- the wealthiest of thwe wealthy took a little hit, and screamed "if you don't loan us 1.4 buhzillion dollars to bet against the working man with bail us out, you'll all die!


But now, those same folks are saying "if you don't allow the government to line our pockets raise the debt ceiling, you're in deep shit!


How many times are we going to fall for it?

[Cuda]

^^^ Gets it

[R-Jack]

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/business/37512259.html

I don't think the little guy gets this. I'm sure he's under the impression that his 148 sq. ft. "mansion" is worth about 1/3 of what it was a few years ago.

Well......................bye.

[mvscal]

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/business/37512259.html

I don't think the little guy gets this. I'm sure he's under the impression that his 148 sq. ft. "mansion" is worth about 1/3 of what it was a few years ago.

That article is two years old and things have only gotten worse.

[R-Jack]

Maybe for others.

If things keep progressing like they have the last couple years for me, I may be able to start looking at getting that pot to piss in.

[Mace]

You can buy a house for 120K here... but it needs work, and you're dodging bullets.

So yeah -- if you can buy a decent house for 120K... it's a shithole. Or do I need to explain that whole supply/demand thing to you?

If you can buy a house for $120K that needs work and you're dodging bullets, then it's YOU who are living in a shithole. Or do I need to explain that whole common sense thing to you?

[Invictus]

Dinsdale, is this county near you?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/new-faces-of-meth

And, doesn't you or somebody else on here live in Eugene? Freakin' Gorgeous has moved to the Up and Left eh?
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/126298093.htm

[Mikey]

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/business/37512259.html

I don't think the little guy gets this. I'm sure he's under the impression that his 148 sq. ft. "mansion" is worth about 1/3 of what it was a few years ago.

As far as I'm concerned, anybody who wants to leave California is perfectly welcome.