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The second worst place in California after Bakersfield, is Rodeo... Hands Down!!

Sorry if this may offend some of you, specially if you live in Bakersfield, but you should be satisfied with the fact that the town where my parents live in, Rodeo, holds high rank in inhabitable cities to live in the Bay Area. I live here....

My parents bought this house exactly a year ago, in order to 'invest' money in real estate instead of renting. Another great factor in acquiring this piece of property is it's symbolic meaning to an immigrant. Owning a home = success in the US.

I should congratulate my mother in the house itself. In addition to being a new home, my mother's great sense in color coordination accompanied with her modern interior decoration of the house.. it looks amazing inside and out.

BUT.. this town has left a bitter taste in my mouth. To start off with, the town is extremely worn down. It used to be a stop for ships, and now it has train tracks, a Safeway that lacks in good groceries and customer service and a Salvation Army...

That doesn't bother me, what pisses me off was the call that I got from my mother last Friday telling me that we have been robbed. They left a complete mess; They flipped our mattresses, went though our personal stuff (looked through my undergarments)... just a complete mess. I hope that these people are satisfied with the person they see when they wake up in the morning. I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the eye.

They left with some cash, some accessories and the most tackiest shoes that I have ever bought... that should tell give an inclination to the type of people that did this.

So, that is not the whole reason why I am livid. Aside form having a perfectly horrible day, I come home to find that the sewer had exploded and inundated our downstairs bathroom with bathroom garbage (to put it lightly). Yes, to top of this 'magnificent' day, I had to smell human secretion in my house.

I don't know what else to expect this year, thank god it's almost over and I don't even want to imagine what could possibly happen to us in the coming year living here.
(On the positive note, I got my first DVD's from Netflix today, so at least I can calm down before going to sleep :) )

posted by Maria @ 7:23 PM