Why do you live here?
It’s always interesting to here why people live in Ridgecrest or Trona and don’t forget Inyokern. I personally was brought here at 5 and was raised here I enjoy the familiarity of it. I personally enjoy our little wal-mart. The bowling alley, and restaurants. Our town looks nice already to me; no graffitti, not very trashy there isn’t a whole lot of chain link fence like bigger cities which makes it look like a big jail. I really don’t like big cities. I am super social I have performed on stage at concerts I am not anti-social anti populas. I just like ridgecrest. Like many of you I am not stuck here i could probably make more in a big city, and maybe one day i will but for now I am here and while i’m here i am trying to have a positive influence on my friends and family and the community in general. There is change happening some for better some for worse but overall the city seems to be the same safe beautiful place to live. Don’t believe me check the police logs for shootings or burgularies, armed robberies. Theres always gonna be bored kids doing petty crime thats always gonna be the case in any town. Change is good I feel sorry for those of you who think only certain people should be allowed here but everyone has a place in building a great society, there is no place on earth where people who look act and think just like you all live and thank god it is’nt ridgecrest .
I like living in Trona and shopping in Ridgecrest because law enforcement is far more efficient when dealing with small population centers. This is why you don’t much gang activity in our region. In palmdale,Lancaster and Bakersfield,yes. But not here. Plus,I like to excavate historical artifacts,giving them to museums. Before leaving Orange County I donated artifacts to the tiny Tustin Museum. Since arriving in Trona I’ve donated artifacts to the Bakersfield Museum and the Trona Museum. I could and will spend the rest of my life alone in the desert vastnes digging for artifacts. It’s like being ten years old again and getting a BB gun for Christmas. I don’t need Viagra. I’ve got artifacts.
Fred
May 29, 2008
You hit the nail on the head. There is no place like R/C, I am now living in Baton Rouge La, and I absolutley hate it out here. I have been out here for over a year, and am now in the process of selling my business and moving back. It is unbelievable how safe that little town is compared to ANY big city. Whoever posted this did an excellent job of representing R/C.
Chris S
May 30, 2008
I agree with most of your post on Ridgecrest. These are a few things I have a problem with: 1) Crime is becoming a larger problem that it ever has around here. 2) The people that are moving to this town are not your normal blue and white collar workers, to me it seems to be more of the welfare families. 3) Our town should not be known as a low income dropp-off. This might sound harsh but it’s the truth. Just look around a little when your driving around town and observe and take note of what you see walking the streets, it kind of resembles a bigger city. If it quacks like a duck it’s probably a duck. Everyone is so worried about making everything a race issue, it’s not a race issue, it’s just what appears to be what a majority of our crime is coming from a specific demograph………I grew up in the projects in Los Angeles area a long time ago, West Wilson St. and Cimaron Gardens area seem to fit that stereotypr too me.
Frank Alan
May 30, 2008
Three years ago I had medical problems that required me to move to Hesperia where I now live. Please, believe me when I tell you that there are many places that you really don’t want to live. Some of those cities are near where I live.
While I lived in Ridgecrest for over twenty years there were times I missed the “big city”, but did’t realize what I had until I had to leave.
Take a good look at your superior schools and teachers and be grateful for their quality. If you have children they are safer in Ridgecrest in spite of a few “bad apples” you have among you.
Deana B
June 2, 2008
It always comes back to small population centers. These are more-easily managed by both law enforcement and civilian populace in small towns compared to Los Angeles,etc. Los Angelese became ungovernable during the 1980s and remains so today. I would advise we bring in the military to fix the problem except that the U.S. military has beome heavily infested with gang members. Websearch the issue if you don’t believ me.
Fred
June 8, 2008
If you like Ridgecrest as it is today then you
cannot possibly know what Ridgecrest really is.
Ridgecrest used to be place with more shops of
class than it has today. It used to be filled
with engineers and retired military. If you
think the changes are fine and that it remains
nicer than cities overwhelmed by crime then
are a fool. Those places were just like
Ridgecrest once and took their drastic changes
over very short periods of time–these things
happen in less than five years. You’re also a
fool for taking any comfort in the police logs:
there are murders here and they are kept quiet.
The crime, especially with residential
burglaries is extremely frequent and most of
it goes unrecorded. The police can and will
do nothing about it and as a result many people
will not bother to make reports. Ridgecrest
is not the same place and it is not a better
place. It is such Ridgecrest-Patriots as
yourself who are to blame. If there isn’t
a serious power change in the town I do not
fear for, but count on a final turn for the
worse that the city will never recover from.
Wulf
June 11, 2008
After I made my post I started trying to look around with a little more of an open eye. There were some signs for me of negative change a few bad spots in town. Of course nothing happened in those spots, but there were some signs. We have to be diligent, intelligent, and open minded. In response to the last post I do not agree with most of it….
Name the murder that you are referring to names dates anything. Secondly this town is small enough that if someone was murdered it would’nt have to be in the police logs to find out about it. What are they gonna do kill everyone who knows to save face for the town.
secondly I enjoy the history of the town myself but the problem is this town is not self sufficient. What I mean by that is you cannot become what many young people want to become in this town. PERIOD. We recently celebrated the graduation of many of our friends and families children and grandchildren. What now? can they “make it big” here can they live at a standard of life acceptable by a small town small minded judgemental society. A we can’t have these low income people in our town mentality. Guess what, if there is’nt changes made in this town to bring in factory’s, real businesses that actually create something and bring in revenue not just give well off older people in the community a place to spend cash. those low income people who don’t belong here are going to be your friends and families children and grandchildren and maybe even your children. We educate them we teach them how to be great pillars of society and then say leave go bring what you have to offer to some other town where you can make it because it will only be wasted here. because of some of the changes that have come here and will come here “hopefully” people will be able to keep there children here the town can be more self sufficient and instead of being a town where you go when you are at the end of the road it can be a place where you can start your journey toward a bright future.
Nothing that is wrong with this town is my fault I am not in politics. I do not make any decisions and my opinion probably would’nt matter as much as someone like yours would. This is a democracy we all voted to put the people who are currently in office in office. My position is this.. I myself found it difficult to make it in this town, now I have accomplished many of my goals and am headed toward even more opportunity. I credit years of hard work but I also credit a change in this community from being satisfied with being stagnant and years behind the curve. To wanting to be part of the year 2008 society in America. I am saying I have hope for this town thats what drives me thats what I wrote about. What are you writing about and why do you live here?
dailyindependent
June 16, 2008
One way to enhance the local economy is to tout Ridgecrest and surrounding communities as a haven for retirees.
If you want good jobs and good places to shop then you’ve got to have people spending monies here.
Fred
June 17, 2008
I like R/C it still has less crime than other cities. It the heat that bothers me.
To get ahead you have to get up at 5 am or earlier or else you bake.
blfrog
June 17, 2008
Yes those are huge problems in Ridgecrest, Trona, and Inyokern. but the meth problem has been a problem here since who knows when. If anything i would say that that number has decreased in the high schools in this generation of kids. The number of drop outs and expultions from the public schools has been cut in half. The school system has improved the way it handles drug education and prevention. On the teenage pregnancy that is i think an increasing problem again what do we have to do in this town. For some teenagers not enough and unfortunately they find alternate ways to have fun and end up causing huge problems with there future.
I would like to think though that a person moving to Ridgecrest would not be afraid of the pregnancy rate in this town in the youth. That all comes back to parenting and supervision and I’m sure that teens are getting pregnant everywhere.
dailyindependent
June 24, 2008
Fred, that is a hoax site. I first got suspicious when I didn’t recognize any of the names and a bit more suspicious when I hit one of the links and it was touting fighting dogs for fun and profit. Really got suspicious and put in a different addy and found a lot of the same names. http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/felonspy.asp
Ruthie Lancaster
July 10, 2008
Hahaha…you are such a brat…but fun!
Ruthie Lancaster
July 16, 2008