Originally posted by red g jacks
pretty sure there are plenty of places in miami that are worse than lake worth, man.either way... sorry to diss your town. i can be a cynic. but most people i've known in south florida tend to agree miami isn't the most pleasant place to live, in the poorer areas. when i was a kid i told my mom and my stepdad that when i grew up i wanted to move to miami... my stepdad was sort of a dick, and a bit racist. he told me miami was a shithole and i didn't believe him, cause on tv it looked cool. so he took me on a trip down there to show me what it's like... i've never seen so many destitute people... there were entire homeless families living in abandoned buildings. some kid with no shoes on came up and begged us for money in a store that didn't even have a proper floor. honestly felt like south america
as far as big cities in florida go, it's probably the 2nd least desirable metro area to live in for lower class people. the first would be jacksonville imo. that place is a dump. at least miami does have some culture (imported from latin america, of course). jacksonville is just a bunch of rednecks and southern blacks. might as well be georgia.
edit - actually, i'll bump you guys to 3rd. orlando would be 2nd. **** orlando.
I live on the border of North Miami and Golden Glades, Ne 6th and 149th.
yea cause palm beach county is just nicer than miami lol
lake worth is nice downtown... and on the north side near the coast there are some nice parts. the rest is pretty much a dump, though. pretty much the entire southside aside from the 3 or so blocks that are close enough to the intercoastal to warrant high property prices regardless of the surrounding area. and the north side west of dixie is also shit. still better than little haiti or liberty city though. or for that matter riviera beach.
speaking on the value of multiculturalism and diversity.. you know that the area west of downtown lake worth is a guatemalan neighborhood full of people who mostly stand outside waiting for daylabor work.
the south side, on the other hand, is largely haitian and the parents probably do work hard but their kids all grow up with the same bullshit thug life mentality. as it happens, guatemalans are looked down upon by pretty much everybody who isn't guatemalan for whatever reason. i never understood exactly why, but that's how it is. there are mexicans, puerto ricans, cubans, haitians, jamacans, every south american nationality around there.
but people refer to guatamalans as "guats" and it's a disrespectful term... and people have a habit of robbing guatemalan workers who are walking home from work... because it is well known that guats carry cash cause they're almost always illegal and thus that's the only way they can get paid. so the tactic of robbing them is not like you might think a stick up or whatever, cause the guy might try something. instead they just take a bat and beat the shit out of him and take his money. if you find one in the right spot, that is. it's a common crime down there. and it's usually a gang of haitians that will do it. they boast about it, even. they refer to guats as "walking ATMs."
Originally posted by Omega Visionoh.. yea i know that area alright cause my dad's gf lived in hallendale. we spent a lot of time around there. it seemed alright to me... i mean i'm not saying there's not alright parts of dade county... but you're outside the city
I live on the border of North Miami and Golden Glades, Ne 6th and 149th.
Originally posted by red g jacks
oh.. yea i know that area alright cause my dad's gf lived in hallendale. we spent a lot of time around there. it seemed alright to me... i mean i'm not saying there's not alright parts of dade county... but you're outside the city
i don't like miami beach either... too flashy for me. it's like vegas on the beach.
where are you from originally from btw?
and i don't really care for the gentrification thing... they do that in palm beach too and all it does is shift the gang territories around and cause problems. hipsters don't understand that they can't live in the hood without driving up prices and making the people who live there leave.
Originally posted by red g jacks
i don't like miami beach either... too flashy for me. it's like vegas on the beach.where are you from originally from btw?
and i don't really care for the gentrification thing... they do that in palm beach too and all it does is shift the gang territories around and cause problems. hipsters don't understand that they can't live in the hood without driving up prices and making the people who live there leave.
I was born in Indiana, my first memories are from Germany (air force family), but I grew up in a town in the Florida Panhandle called Niceville. I feel at home here in South Florida though.
Originally posted by Bardock42i meant to respond to this as well but got caught up being homesick.
No, like I said "in time", there may be some problems short term, of course. Though this is only really a problem for the refugees, though I'm not sure your concern for this makes much sense when you don't seem to show concern for the bigger problems they face.Yes, and it's a very small number over all. When refugees get to the US after two vetting processes both by the international community and several US agencies they are first settled in a specific place in the US, this has been in about 140 towns and cities so far. Within a year of arriving they are required to adjust their status to become permanent legal residents , at which point they are free to move cities and generally do what residents are allowed to do.
"short term" seems like an assumption to me. the demographics of europe have shifted over the years due to immigration policies, leading to a re-emergence of the sort of right wing european nationalism that we hoped we had gotten rid of after ww2. you are simply assuming this will be some short term political dilemma. you have no idea what the future holds. it could very well lead to the next nazi state.
so i simply reject your claim that this is "only a problem for the syrian refugees." i think it very well might pose a political problem in the countries they send them to. i'm not saying this will happen, just that i fear it might.
as for the vetting process... i don't know, i don't think i have the mental willpower right now to think of how exactly that would work. if it's done right and they are a successful transplant then i have no problem with it. i'm just worried that this is going to turn into a political/cultural shitstorm. i mean have you paid any attention to the 2016 campaigns.. the situation here is very volatile atm.
ha my parents are from ny but they moved to florida when i was a baby so i have a mostly normal florida/cali type accent but with just a hint of that east coast dialect in there. also my brother was born 12 year after me and he grew up here in NC yet he talks like us instead of speaking southern. my mom + stepdad family moved to NC when i was about 12... i went with them but after a year got sent back to live with my dad in florida cause me and the stepdad didn't get along plus i hated NC
Originally posted by Tzeentch
What do you do now, Vene? Last time you spoke about it you were working for that hyper-conservative old couple designing book covers or something like that, iirc.
Picked up a job last year working for a company that does background checks for several nuclear power companies. Started as a temp job, but managed to get full time.
Decent work, although a little tedious. Basically, when someone wants to work in a nuclear facility, we have to know everything they have been doing for the past five years.
Work, friends, vacations, friends of friends, favorite food... if anything suspicious comes up, it's an automatic red flag. These are federal regulations, so I'm guessing their pretty standard for background checks.
Its not perfect, but that's why I'm doubtful someone could hide radical associations. If they can hide those associations, then they already have the means to get into the US anyways.
Originally posted by Lucius
Picked up a job last year working for a company that does background checks for several nuclear power companies. Started as a temp job, but managed to get full time.Decent work, although a little tedious. Basically, when someone wants to work in a nuclear facility, we have to know everything they have been doing for the past five years.
Work, friends, vacations, friends of friends, favorite food... if anything suspicious comes up, it's an automatic red flag. These are federal regulations, so I'm guessing their pretty standard for background checks.
Its not perfect, but that's why I'm doubtful someone could hide radical associations. If they can hide those associations, then they already have the means to get into the US anyways.
Favourite food? What does that have to do with anything?
Well it's looking like most of the attackers are clean and would be able to pass checks regardless, so I'm not sure what additional scrutiny would do. There's also no way that a few refugees are going to come in and just get their hands on what they need to carry out an attack. If anything is in the works it's being orchestrated by people already here in the country.
Regardless, closing borders is a possibility, so it's a matter of what the actual threat level is as to where this goes, but I doubt new legislation will be the deciding factor in what happens.
Originally posted by Tzeentch
"The blood of Christians" is allegedly a fairly commonly listed favorite food of ISIS personnel.
I hear bacon is popular as well. So popular we should dip all our bullets into bacon grease before firing on ISIS. Let them die with a smile on their face..because when they get to the afterlife and realize their God doesn't exist and they've been exploding themselves over nothing I expect cowardly tears to be shed.
Obama did say he was letting in 10,000 more Syrian refugees, although Congress has passed a bill to intensify screening measures. That should be the maximum number of persons allowed to enter our shores. Throughout history, Muslims have shown they are incapable of assimilating another country's culture and norms. They are intolerant to comply with cultural biodiversity. That's partly why they have their own set of laws to abide by, besides the constitution (Sharia).