LA - a Third World City?

[Fat Bob]

Well, that's what's reported in the Torygraph

Basically it's saying the immigrants do not have the required skills to fill the jobs and therefore live in poverty.

Skank, how does this feel now you're living there? Any truth about it or just a crock of crap with the Limeys putting the Sepos down?

[skank-la]

This story was an above the fold headline in the LA Times earlier this week.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me ... 5567.story

LA defies description in many ways. It's official now that in 50% of the households here Spanish is the language spoken round the dinner table. It is also home to the largest Persian, Armenian, Vietnamese, Taiwanese, Korean, Filipino , etc, etc expatriate communities in the USA.

The public education system is in shambles due to the fact its populated at the lower levels with mostly Latino immigrant (legal & illegal) who cant speak English & who's parents are not involved in the Educational process. They look at it as a free day care system. In this environment education cant happen. So we now we have in the public school sphere one of the lowest high school completion/graduation rates in the entire country. This is mostly Hispanic & Blacks who dont completeeven high school. Caucasians & Asian generally either go to private schools or live in high income neighborhoods where the public schools are popualted by their peers & are good. However the absolute numbers percentage wise are getting huge for the noneducated segments of society.

Violence in the black/latino 'hoods' is at levels maybe more analagous to Baghdad than a peace time industrialized nation. But if you live in the right postal code it's seems as far away as it does to you sitting in Singapore.

My big question is if all the manufacturing jobs move offshore what will people who don't have advanced degrees do for a living?

Living here is nice, we get to see Beck's play every weekend, or go to the Dodgers games, surfing in the summer, great music, better food town than Singapore even, but the USA has some very serious problems, exacerbated by 8 years of Darth Cheney & Idiot Bush. If we don't change the regime in November & start fixing some of the problems here extermely soon it will defintely mean the decline of the USA. Problem with that is when there is shake-up in the established order things often get much worse before they get better. If the US self-destucts what happens to the rest of the world?

[Zephyr]

..... very serious problems, exacerbated by 8 years of Darth Cheney & Idiot Bush. If we don't change the regime in November & start fixing some of the problems here extermely soon it will defintely mean the decline of the USA.

According to the idiot, there is no recessionary crisis whatsoever in the US. Oh to be so oblivious! I'll have some of what he's smoking thank you very much.

[Kooky]

I'll have some of what he's smoking thank you very much.

You'll have to fight skank for it.

[Fat Bob]

Thanks, skank. Do you have any feel if it is better/same/worse than other cities? San Francisco or New York perhaps?

[baloo]

If the highlight of living in LA is watching Beckham play, I can undertand why people turn to drugs.

[daffodil]

Ouch!