Look but don't touch!
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6/21/2008
It's gorgeous around here... but the lake and it's fish are full of mercury. I work in a place where I often see or hear of people who swam in the lake and got a rash. One third of this town lives at or below the poverty level, and the mentality shows it. I think they ate too many fish!!
Serious, this place is a freak show. Not to mention that there's a pot shop on every corner. The down town is ugly, nothing quaint about it at all. Wal-Mart came and bankrupted about 70 local businesses. In the neighborhoods, you can buy a gorgeous $200,000 home, dirt cheap for CA, but -- it'll probably be next door to a meth trailer, and the road won't even be paved. They recently cut education budgets, which is the LAST thing this area needs!! There is a slow clean up and red tagging of eyesore trailers going on by the county to bring homes up to code. There could really be lots of potential here if you're willing to hang out for 10 years and help make things advance, bring in good business and arts and education and such; like the new Anderson Marsh museum that is being proposed. It is an undiscovered paradise that "needs some TLC and elbow grease". This place can grow and become somthing special. Just DON'T eat the fish!
Abhd | Clearlake, CA