Review of Bend, Oregon

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Roving gangs of thugs

- 3/5/2009
My wife and I retired to Bend a few years ago and we're trying to get out now. We had no idea things were so going to be so bad here after the collapse of the real estate market which is Bend's only real industry. Homeless gangs of thugs are roaming the streets nightly threatening fine Americans like ourselves simply because we are the "haves" and they are the "have-nots." My wife had a knife pulled on her by an obviously drugged-out young man outside the new McMenamin's during broad daylight and I had my golf clubs stolen from my Cadillac in the Lost Tracks Golf Club parking lot out China Hat Road. Apparently there's a very large contingent of homeless meth-heads living in the scrublands outside town and they come in town at night to steal and loot, according to the officer that took our claim after the condo was broken into. That's just the tip of the iceberg. It's so bad our children are afraid to visit us here so we're selling the condo at a loss and moving back to Kansas City. The sooner the better.
Greg | Kansas City, MO