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October 07, 11 11:14 AM (permalink)

Oakland

Is anyone from there? I hope anyone from there is doing fine.
Watching NatGeo and the gang stuff on Oakland. I don't know if it's exaggerated, but it looks like a gangland.

I wouldn't know stuff in the U.S. anyway, i live by the far eastern seas!

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    SeveredVesper
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    Re:Oakland October 07, 11 11:19 AM (permalink)
    Good thing local gangsters here can't afford any decent weapons except for icepicks, and then just use more dodge-able rocks. 

    Although i wish gangsters fought with bacon instead.

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    Re:Oakland October 07, 11 11:40 AM (permalink)
    SeveredVesper


    Is anyone from there? I hope anyone from there is doing fine.
    Watching NatGeo and the gang stuff on Oakland. I don't know if it's exaggerated, but it looks like a gangland.

    I wouldn't know stuff in the U.S. anyway, i live by the far eastern seas!

    My son lives right on the edge of Oakland, CA (he lives in Berkeley, CA).
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    Re:Oakland October 07, 11 11:41 AM (permalink)
    Grew up in the Bay Area, and went through Oakland numerous times.  Even back in the '60's it was mostly a rough, depressed community.  Sadly, the major fire they had there some decades ago destroyed the nicer parts up in the Oakland hills.

    Oakland has always been the "red headed step child" to San Francisco.  Stein's quote is particularly infamous, "There is no there, there."

    Jim
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    Re:Oakland October 07, 11 12:04 AM (permalink)
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    SeveredVesper


    Is anyone from there? I hope anyone from there is doing fine.
    Watching NatGeo and the gang stuff on Oakland. I don't know if it's exaggerated, but it looks like a gangland.

    I wouldn't know stuff in the U.S. anyway, i live by the far eastern seas!

    My son lives right on the edge of Oakland, CA (he lives in Berkeley, CA).

    Nah he's alright! He will just rip out the bad guys' entrails and eat them for dinner.

    Kidding aside, i heard the most crime-ridden place is in the central part. Luckily, he's at the edge.

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    Re:Oakland October 07, 11 12:06 AM (permalink)
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    Grew up in the Bay Area, and went through Oakland numerous times.  Even back in the '60's it was mostly a rough, depressed community.  Sadly, the major fire they had there some decades ago destroyed the nicer parts up in the Oakland hills.

    Oakland has always been the "red headed step child" to San Francisco.  Stein's quote is particularly infamous, "There is no there, there."

    That's sad to hear. Do you still live in the Bay Area now? (I don't suppose you like local thrash alot?)

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    Re:Oakland October 08, 11 3:32 PM (permalink)
    Grew up and lived on the SF penisula for many years, but haven't for a couple of decades.  I am now living in the land of perpetual drizzle (Pacific NW) as opposed to the land of perpetual wind and fog (I actually like the drizzle).

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    Re:Oakland October 08, 11 8:17 PM (permalink)
    It's not exagerated at all. It's worse than they show. Go there at night at your own risk.

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    Re:Oakland October 09, 11 7:38 AM (permalink)
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    Grew up and lived on the SF penisula for many years, but haven't for a couple of decades.  I am now living in the land of perpetual drizzle (Pacific NW) as opposed to the land of perpetual wind and fog (I actually like the drizzle).
    Literally, a perpetual drizzle?

    Crg


    It's not exagerated at all. It's worse than they show. Go there at night at your own risk.
    Oh I see. That's sad.


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    Re:Oakland October 09, 11 12:46 AM (permalink)
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    It's not exagerated at all. It's worse than they show. Go there at night at your own risk.

    Here in my  (just up the road) NC town.... we also have a serious gang problem.  I think it's a matter of time before we are in a "Road Warrior, after the Thunder dome" world. I think they have documented the presence of almost 40 different, active gangs here. 


    So far the police seem to be on top of it.... or so it seems.  I can't imagine how bad it is in some of the larger cities, and especially the ones where there are no opportunities for people these days, except drugs and crime. 

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    Re:Oakland October 09, 11 5:52 PM (permalink)
    And then there are the Raiders fans...

     
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    Re:Oakland October 09, 11 8:56 PM (permalink)
    Severed, regarding the drizzle...

    It is not literally perpetual, but predominates from roughly the beginning of October through May.  The area I live in has the fewest uncloudy sunny days of any major population area in the U.S. 

    Now if you want rain, the town to move to is Forks, WA.  That area averages +/- 175 inches of rain a year (the only temperate rain forest in the world is in the Olympic Peninsula).

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    Re:Oakland October 09, 11 9:32 PM (permalink)
    Miggy lives in The Philipines. They probably get more rain than any of us have ever seen.

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    Re:Oakland October 09, 11 9:38 PM (permalink)
    I had to look:
     
    There are two seasons in the country, the wet season and the dry season
    The summer monsoon brings heavy rains to most of the archipelago from May to October. Annual average rainfall ranges from as much as 5,000 millimetres (196.9 in) in the mountainous east coast section of the country, to less than 1,000 millimetres (39.4 in) in some of the sheltered valleys. Monsoon rains, although hard and drenching, are not normally associated with high winds and waves.
     
     
    From Wikipedia.
     
    Not as much above 175 in. as I thought it would be.

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    Re:Oakland October 12, 11 4:00 AM (permalink)
    @Guitarhacker
    I see. I hope it gets better there.
    @Noldlar
    Oh okay. I actually thought that there is a real perpetual drizzle.

    @Grg
    Yeah, that's the average. But we have about a lot of typhoons per year, and we get hit by atleast 1 super typhoon a year (that's the minimum). When the epic super typhoons (windy-type) come into the country it kind of looks like apocalypse outside, with lots of flying debris, and when the typhoon leaves, we're left with days without electricity and a hell lot of trees and utility posts on the ground. But when typhoons have a lot of rainfall, it usually has a slow wind and just a low warning signal. This was what happened when the government released and warning that it was only "first signal", but a couple of hours later our first floor was flooded past the height of our couches. First time it happened though.

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