SperlingViews - La_Quinta, California
75.46% of people are white, 1.21% are black, 2.94% are asian, 0.58% are native american, and 19.80% claim 'Other'. 41.36% of the people in La Quinta, CA, claim hispanic ethnicity (meaning 58.64% are non-hispanic).
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Prison, Sand-Box Style - 10/14/2008
Single women beware: The best investment you can make in spinsterhood, outside of San Francisco, is the Coachella Valley, Palm Springs being merely a gateway to the dateless existence that awaits you in all desert cities, La Quinta "The [ahem] Gem of the Desert" included. If you just KNOW you'd love 6-8 months of mind-boggling summer (August/September literally inching up on Hell); overpriced, walled-off housing communities; more country clubs per square mile than makes any sort of sense except to turf providers; a hide-and-seek job economy; paranoid midwestern transplants, the bitchiest gays shy of Queenville, a large immigrant Latino population, obsessive-compulsive golfers, neo-conservative middle-class just-marrieds who couldn't buy elsewhere in California; miles upon miles of beige terrain as opposed to the usual green one expects of, say, Planet Earth; an impressively unchallenged black widow population, and nothing culturally fascinating save Walmart on a Friday night, then La Quinta, the prettiest of all desert prisons, is for you.
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La Quinta Life - 5/31/2008
The positive:
- Winter days are great at around 75ºF.
- Abundant sunshine.
- New infrastructure.
- Landscaped greenery & water features.
- It's not overly crowded & in summer as much of the population moves out because of the heat.
The negative:
- The summer heat is stifling.
- Dust storms.
- Property crime in some areas is high.
- Entertainment wise not much happens, in fact quite boring.
- Not a young persons place.
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Its hot in the summer and swarmed with old farts i - 10/9/2007
120 in the summer and all the snowbirds in the winter. It was nice 5 years ago but the job market is crap now. Looking to go elsewhere soon[read more...] |
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How is it? - 7/9/2006
How bad is crime around here? Any crime stories?[read more...] |
