Barstow, the Meth capital of America!!!
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8/21/2008
I have lived in Barstow since 1992. In 17 years of living here I have seen this little town take on growth spurts and then all of a sudden the bottom drops out and business move on. Gangs, drugs and the homeless have taken over this town.
The majority of the city council seats are filled with those who do not live in Barstow and as such their interests are not of Barstow, but rather of their own areas in nieghboring towns and cities where they live. If you are a business owner or entrapanure looking to expand, don't... look elseware because all you will get is legal red tape and political rhetoric.
If it were not for the railroad, the marine corp base and the ARMY post, this little town would dry up in the hot desert sun and blow away in the wind like ****. All that would be left here would be the prostitutes, drug addicts, and the homeless. Sorry, I almost forgot about AM/PM and many other fuel service stations, Wal-Mart, HomeDepot, The Outlet Center mall, etc.
Home Depot, a new arrival in this little town endured extreme difficulties attempting to gain local new employees to maintain and opperate their store. It took a while, but they were finaly able to gain the needed employee's, albiet most of the new employee's are from nieghboring cities. The main reason for this is drug use and the local undesierable drug populace of this little town.
I must recant at this point. Not all of the populace of Barstow's residents are drug users and loosers. Many are very good, decent upstanding hard working citizens trying to survived in a depressed environment/town.
There is little entertainment to be had here, the weather is very hot and arid with little to no annual rainfall.
The best thing that I can say of Barstow is that late summer/early fall sunsets are beautiful, the air is clean and fresh through most of the season with a scant aroma of some illegal barbituate/drug that is either being illegaly manufactured or used.
If you are a dope head or cook Methamphetamine, you could easily call Barstow your home!!!
I for one do not concider Barstow to be my home... It is only the place where I became traped, unable to move on.
robert | Barstow, CA