"dsi1" > wrote in message
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On Sunday, January 10, 2016 at 2:28:20 PM UTC-10, Julie Bove wrote:
> "dsi1" <> wrote in message
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> On Sunday, January 10, 2016 at 3:02:21 AM UTC-10, Julie Bove wrote:
> > "Janet B" > wrote in message
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> > > On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 19:41:36 -0800, "Julie Bove"
> > > > wrote:
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> > > snip
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> > >>Over here they tend to put the Walmarts in the more impoverished parts
> > >>of
> > >>towns and cities and those areas generally do have high crime rates.
> > >
> > > For heavens sake, Julie. That isn't true. What a generalization.
> > > Janet US
> >
> > It most certainly is! "Over here" meaning the specific area where I
> > live.
> > We have one in Lynnwood, the food center in Lynnwood and two in Everett.
> > All in high crime areas. But the Super store is in a particularly bad
> > area.
>
> We used to live in Lynnwood. Sorry to hear it had degenerated to such a
> level. OTOH, I saw a couple of dumb-looking guys working in cahoots to rip
> off a circular saw from a hardware store. The cashier told one guy that
> his
> buddy tried to walk out with a saw and he said "waahh?" Then he told them
> to
> beat it. I guess the criminals have gotten a little better at their craft.
> Otherwise, it was a pretty peaceful scene - at the time.
>
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> We moved to this area when I was 7. Lynnwood was pretty much all woods at
> that point in time. There were some businesses. Not a lot. The big
> thing
> was the Lynn-O-Rama. Not sure they even have that any more. There was a
> parade and a small carnival.
>
> They put the mall in around the late 70's to early 80's. Not sure the
> exact
> year. It has been booming ever since. Lots of apartment buildings. I
> can't say that overall, the city is bad but it does have its parts.
>
> I don't think it's as bad as Everett or Marysville. I am very glad that
> we
> did not move to Everett! When we first moved back here, the real estate
> agent noticed me turning up my nose when she mentioned it. At that point
> in
> time I was thinking mainly of the school district. She then balked, told
> me
> that it no longer had a stigma and that she lived there. The fact that she
> said, "no longer", indicated to me that she knew that it did have a
> stigma.
> And perhaps when we first moved back here, it wasn't too bad. But it sure
> is now.

We were there in 87-88. We went to the Alderwood mall frequently. We'd take
my son to the triangle park down the road and had a good life there. I
worked in Everett and my wife worked in Seattle. My son went to Spruce
elementary. We could be living there still but sometimes you eat the bear
and sometimes the bear eats you.

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Replying again because I remembered something else. Did you ever eat at Pio
Pios? It was near the mall in a strip mall. Loved that place. It's an
appliance store now. I guess the property owner figured they'd make more
money for him than a Mexican restaurant. The owner has since opened a new
place but it's not anywhere near here. However, I discovered that he is the
uncle of the place where we now frequently eat.