Las Vegas or So. Cal. ?

[AmericanAirlines]

Doh! sorry, screwed up with the tables when I cut and pasted.

Try again:

<pre><font class="small">code:</font><hr>CATEGORIES
crimes per 100,000 pop.
&gt;
Compton Jupiter Nat. Ave.
Murder 57.7 3.2 3.9
Rape 32.0 15.9 32.8
Robbery 565.0 117.9 116.3
Assault 949.6 274.1 293.0
Burglary 1,225.2 924.3 761.4
Larcency 1,409.9 3,448.6 3,037.8
Auto theft 956.0 443.0 361.8
&gt;
Compton Jupiter Nat. Ave.
RACE
White 21.6% 94.2% 81.8%
Black 44.3% 4.0% 10.4%
Asian 5.4% 1.2% 3.6%
Amer. Indian 0.3% 0.1% 0.8%
Other 28.4% 0.5% 3.5%
Hispanic 53.9% 4.6% 11.0%</pre><hr>


Sincerely,
AA

[AmericanAirlines]

Hi D.j.
Even though I lived in Vegas, I don't recall to much of a change during WSOP time up Mirage way.

Do you really find more good games that time of year? Perhaps down Fremont way?

Sincerely,
AA

[bad beetz]

I'm no poker pro, but you can't possibly be touting the benefits of nevada's climate against Souther Cali, the best climate On the planet.

[bad beetz]

have you considered the Bay area? Lots of culture here, plus sh*tty poker players too! And fog? Oh, we've got fog.
We've also got these street car things I haven't figured out. It's neat!

The ocean is right there, and I mean right there. There's not thong wearing hotties cause they all freeze to death in the water, but the view is nice. Lots of sail boats, lots of girlies jogging along the beach near the babeway (there's a single's safeway, it's great)

good mass transit system, and if you're liberal, forgetabout it, there's naked peace protesting, animal loving, dream catching, spirit finding, treehugging loonies falling out of trees here. One landed on my car yesterday and asked if I had any "smoke"


Don't offend anybody here though. I accidentally bought a genetically enhanced tomato from Trader joe's and greenpeace keyed my car and kicked me in the stomach.

seriously, I love it here, and there are 20 or so card clubs in the area.

[Trefo]

There's only one place to go and that has to be Vegas....
You can go to Southern Cali on vacation but Sin City cmon, there's no choice!

[Dynasty]

I'm not saying it's better than CA- just that it's excellent.

[Homer]

OK badbeetz I know you weren't trying to convince me to move out there, but I'm coming anyway. Sounds about a million times better than the snow and ice and freezing temperatures and lack of beaches and lack of cardrooms and lack of sexy women here in PA.....

-- Homer

[D.J.]

From what I saw last year, the Bellagio, Mirage, and of course the Horse shoe picked up during the wsop, you couldn't tell too much w/ Bellagio and Mirage on the weekends, but there seemed to be more games during the week than usual. That's also when I saw the huge live games being spread everywhere like the PLO game at Bellagio w/ 200-400 blinds, Horseshoe also spread more games than usual. Also, about compton, I never said that it was a country club, but I think it's cleaned up a lot the past 5 yrs or so, besides, I don't think this guy is going to move out here so he can live in compton anyway.

-D.J.

[AmericanAirlines]

Hi D.J.
Thanks for the info. Guess I'm lame. I never noticed all that much extra activity at Mirage/Bellagio in April when I was living there.

As for Compton, I agree. He's probably not going to live there. But a similar parallel in my life. When I built a house in Royal Palm Beach, Fl. (middle class houses on acreage, despite it's name) I had 5 break ins. Finally caught someone. Couple of black crack dealers stole a car and parked it in my garage while I was living in Tampa for a while contracting.

How's that like Compton... well Northlake Blvd was the conduit into Royal Palm Beach... going right by "Riviera Beach"... Used to be the north border of the bad area was "Silver Beach Road"... but it's crept northward all the way to PGA Blvd. No wonder PGA National HQ wants to move.

Here's the demographics for Riviera Beach, Royal Palm, US Avg. *Notice any glaring correlations???*

<pre><font class="small">code:</font><hr>CRIME
Riviera Royal Palm US Avg.
Beach Beach
&gt;
Violent crime 1,839.5 386.2 446.1
Property crime 12,702.4 4,752.6 4,162.2
&gt;
CATEGORIES
crimes per 100,000 pop.
Murder 16.4 0.0 3.9
Rape 32.8 41.2 32.8
Robbery 719.4 41.2 116.3
Assault 1,070.9 303.8 293.0
Burglary 3,895.8 1,658.0 761.4
Larcency 5,466.0 2,481.8 3,037.8
Auto theft 3,340.7 612.7 361.8
&gt;
RACE
White 27.2% 87.6% 81.8%
Black 70.8% 9.4% 10.4%
Asian 1.0% 1.7% 3.6%
Amer. Indian 0.2% 0.2% 0.8%
Other 0.8% 1.1% 3.5%
Hispanic 4.7% 11.6% 11.0%</pre><hr>

Point is, folks from areas like this don't just stay in those areas, the move around to all the surrounding areas.

So if the casino is near these kinds of places, you are going to be affected. At least that's my experience.

Sincerely,
AA

[raptor]

OK, we have obviously made it clear where I DO NOT want to live, the question is? where DO I want to look? It seems to be clear that I will have to commute to get to a decent location. It does not matter how good the action is, if your vehicle or place is getting broken into. I have never really been that crazy about apartment complexes, I would prefer to find an apartment over a business, or something like that. That might not be easily done, but that would be my first choice. Can anybody give me an idea what areas I will want to start my search? Again, thanks for all the input that everybody is giving on this!!