Garbage
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4/30/2014
This place is horrible. Well, I tend to be negative, so I'll try to start with positive: spring time is nice. Ok, now on to the rest of the truth. Taxes. There are taxes at every turn. Taxes on your property (to include your car), sales taxes, etc. Sure, that's anywhere you go, but what do you get for your tax dollars here in Norfolk? The police, who are quick to pull you over and cite you, will do nothing if you actually need them. How about the roads? They are terrible. From side walks to freeways, the "roads" are nothing but a long series of patches. Poorly-done patches. These patches destroy the car you pay good money for, along with the taxes, only to take in for your yearly inspection for the crooked shop to claim all the money you spent last year to fix it was spent in vain because all of the work done to it has been undone by the terrible roads (whether it's true or not). Drainage is like a bad STD. The very hint of rain calls for flooding. Maybe that's because Norfolk uses a carefully designed grooves, or "ditches" in it's patchwork--I mean network of roads to drain water. These leave you wonderful scrapes on your bumper when you fail to see them and hit them at anything over 5mph, let alone the damage to your suspension. Drivers here are also bad. I think they are too busy licking their windows to drive. I love how here in Norfolk they claim to be "southern" (I am from the ACTUAL South) but honestly, it snows here every year, so why is it a big surprise every year? It's like they have to buy new salt trucks and fly in drivers to run them. They also love to spread this weird stuff called "sand" onto the frozen, snow-covered roads (that they refuse to plow) that turns the surface into a greased-glass consistency. Someone came up with the bright idea to spread "brine," or a saline-type mix onto the roads before the snow hits, effectively rinsing the streets clean for a perfect surface for snow to stick to. But it gets better, because this brine solution will leave the surface slightly wet so that it'll freeze into a hard crust of black ice that a full dump truck couldn't break. After all this effort and taxpayer money, it's a little frustrating to see kids building snow men in the street. Yes, the street.
Joseph | Norfolk, VA