Laguna Niguel -- Boring and Pricey
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7/13/2008
Many people choose to live in Laguna Niguel because it is a safe place to raise their children. I was raised here, I grew up here, and let me be the first to tell you that Laguna Niguel, CA is NOT the place to go.
Republican suburbia's definition of 'safe' is to make everything extremely boring and expensive -- more expensive than drugs or alcohol. And these days it's all-too common for kids (14+) in the area to throw parties with exorbitantly high levels of alcohol, to smoke a LOT of marijuana to pass the time, or to go to raves and take extacy. I'm no prude, but I've seen things get extremely out-of-hand.
Also, without a car, you can't get anywhere, and the gas prices here recently hit &4.77 for regular. Some people here are multi-millionaires who care very little about the $65-80-dollar ding on a weekly basis, but not everyone. Kids here with little-to-no money suffer the most. The transit system is virtually nonexistent.
There is no public high school in Laguna Niguel. Kids must splinter off to Mission Viejo, Dana Point, or Aliso Viejo. And all of these schools are over-crowded and underfunded. Most of my classes had over 30 students per teacher.
sarah | Laguna Niguel, CA