11-10-2008, 02:18 PM
I haven't had a good rant in a long while, so here goes....
To hell with this town, and somewhat, with JMU itself. This place has gone right down the shitter in the last year.
This is the second year I have lived in an apartment (Squire Hills). Last year, I really couldn't complain much. College living being what it is, it wasn't perfect, but rent was fair, people were nice, and it was a safe community.
This year, our community has fallen into disrepair. Our AC system went out, part of our ceiling fell down, and on top of this, what was generally decrepit since the 1974 inception of our apartment has remained the same and...rent has increased. This whole community, and many others in the area, have just turned into cash cows with little/no and even negative improvement paralleled with increasing rent.
My car...last semester, someone slashed my rear tire. After those were replaced, someone poured koolaid all over it. I have since installed an alarm, which went off last night leading me to discover someone possibly fleeing and a nice fat cigarette burn on the cover I now have on it. Luckily it didn't burn through. My roommates have experienced similar incidents all the way to two hit and runs and one totalled vehicle from a drunk driver in our parking lot.
JMU keeps accepting ghetto-ass shady people in increasing numbers. I mean, where do these people come from? Granted, a majority of the crime committed here occurs because of local gang activity. Two nights ago someone was shot in the head in Hunter's Ridge literally across from our apartment and is listed in critical condition in a coma at UVA; suspected gang activity. But at the same time, we are getting a "timely warning" email every week it seems of a case of rape, assault & battery, home invasion and robbery involving probable JMU student perpetrators, and those are only the ones that get reported. I read of a JMU student recently who liked to rob convenience stores and finally got caught...wtf?
JMU and its student body has lost virtually all of its charm. Any given day you will encounter classless, tasteless lowlifes and I wonder how in the hell they got in and what they are doing here. They could be degenerates at home and save their parents lots of money. Whereas once you would encounter good-hearted people having a good time on the weekends, now I'll often see the same kind of shady people matching the descriptions in the DNR of wanted criminals.
Bottom line, there are still good people here, and some who remember the glory days, but to the OGs, you wouldn't miss this, and to any prospective students, watch yourself. JMU no longer represents the laid back and friendly times your older siblings and friends told you about. Next year I am moving to a new community on the edge of town with individual garages and a few dozen security cameras, and I hope that in doing so my GTFO meter won't be as pegged in the red as it is now. Only time will tell.
To hell with this town, and somewhat, with JMU itself. This place has gone right down the shitter in the last year.
This is the second year I have lived in an apartment (Squire Hills). Last year, I really couldn't complain much. College living being what it is, it wasn't perfect, but rent was fair, people were nice, and it was a safe community.
This year, our community has fallen into disrepair. Our AC system went out, part of our ceiling fell down, and on top of this, what was generally decrepit since the 1974 inception of our apartment has remained the same and...rent has increased. This whole community, and many others in the area, have just turned into cash cows with little/no and even negative improvement paralleled with increasing rent.
My car...last semester, someone slashed my rear tire. After those were replaced, someone poured koolaid all over it. I have since installed an alarm, which went off last night leading me to discover someone possibly fleeing and a nice fat cigarette burn on the cover I now have on it. Luckily it didn't burn through. My roommates have experienced similar incidents all the way to two hit and runs and one totalled vehicle from a drunk driver in our parking lot.
JMU keeps accepting ghetto-ass shady people in increasing numbers. I mean, where do these people come from? Granted, a majority of the crime committed here occurs because of local gang activity. Two nights ago someone was shot in the head in Hunter's Ridge literally across from our apartment and is listed in critical condition in a coma at UVA; suspected gang activity. But at the same time, we are getting a "timely warning" email every week it seems of a case of rape, assault & battery, home invasion and robbery involving probable JMU student perpetrators, and those are only the ones that get reported. I read of a JMU student recently who liked to rob convenience stores and finally got caught...wtf?
JMU and its student body has lost virtually all of its charm. Any given day you will encounter classless, tasteless lowlifes and I wonder how in the hell they got in and what they are doing here. They could be degenerates at home and save their parents lots of money. Whereas once you would encounter good-hearted people having a good time on the weekends, now I'll often see the same kind of shady people matching the descriptions in the DNR of wanted criminals.
Bottom line, there are still good people here, and some who remember the glory days, but to the OGs, you wouldn't miss this, and to any prospective students, watch yourself. JMU no longer represents the laid back and friendly times your older siblings and friends told you about. Next year I am moving to a new community on the edge of town with individual garages and a few dozen security cameras, and I hope that in doing so my GTFO meter won't be as pegged in the red as it is now. Only time will tell.
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Past: '94 Mazda RX-7 | '04 Lexus IS300 (RIP) | '00 Jeep XJ | '99 Mazda 10AE Miata | '88 Toyota Supra Turbo
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Past: '94 Mazda RX-7 | '04 Lexus IS300 (RIP) | '00 Jeep XJ | '99 Mazda 10AE Miata | '88 Toyota Supra Turbo
My MM Movies - Watch Them Here