Santa Cruz has changed a lot over the course of my lifetime. It's only a shell of what it used to be. There's way too much homelessness, drugs, and violence these days. My kids are young teenagers, and it's just not a place where I necessarily want them to be running the streets of. I'm I'm lucky to own a home here (which wasn't easy), but it's a small home on a small lot. In Virginia you can get a lot more of a home for a lot less money, even considering the salary differences. I do have an interview for a job at Virginia Tech in a week or two, so we'll see how that goes. I may not even want that job, but it sounds decent. It's a lot less than I make now, but so is the cost of living.
This was in Santa Cruz a few weeks ago, it's getting bad..
The grade schooler was treated at the scene and eventually released to her mother but even that's raising questions
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