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West Coast. There I experienced no sense of community for the layout consists of hundreds of housing developments, interspersed with shopping centers, connected by freeways, some of which are as wide as twelve lanes. There must be a dozen different supermarket chains in that part of the United States and I couldn’t access any one of them without negotiating a freeway.
As far as the eye can see in any direction, the hillsides are infested with nearly identical red tile-roofed, stucco houses. The endlessness of it all engendered feelings of mild depression which engulfed me like a wet blanket as I drove up the street.
Crime was on what seemed to be a steep increase, the avalanche of illegal immigrants cascading across the international border was threatening the infrastructure, and the prevailing attitude of the local youth was
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