Been in Apple Valley 4yrs and am ready to leave!
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5/8/2006
It was great 4yrs ago. Affordable, and a nice area. Well, everyone found out that you could get a new house for $100k and moved here from Pomona, Rialto, Long Beach (all bad areas) and crime is here and the local police are out manned. Shootings, crime, people being robbed, rapped. You name it. There is school police in black and white that patrol the school. But when something hapens, they actually run and hide. SERIOUSLY! Currently a house 1700sq ft with a 1/2 acre less than 3 yrs old is $350k. Tired of hearing my kids say, "kid with gun at school, or knife. Someone stabbed! Wife is a R.E Broker and hears time and time again good people moving out because crime is bad. You never see anyone get a ticket, or the police around. Adelanto (neighbor city) Chief of police fired to crime. Did I mention the sex offenders? I think they give them free rent or something! They are very where around the schools. Check out the maps! Phelan (neighbor city) "drug capital for making speed" has housing for sex offenders.
If the police (all four of them) come out and show them selfs it might be a better town. Population is 65,000. Summers are 115* an dit snows twice a year in the winter. Utilities are high. Gas prices (for house) went through the roof. So bad, the meter readers were getting their tires cut. They had to be escorted by police to get meters read. Bad, town? YES!
Ron | Apple Valley, CA