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We occasionally talk about Santa Monica because Santa Monica is just in a terrible, frightening shape.

When I moved to Los Angeles, Santa Monica was one of my first favorite places to go to, Third Street Promenade.

And now I live near Santa Monica, and I kind of can't avoid being there frequently.

And there are parts of it that are so frightening because the homeless people, really crazy street people, really scary, dirty, disgusting.

And they're allowed to roam free.

They've ruined a park that my wife and I used to like to walk in all the time.

She won't go in there.

We can't park in the parking garages because there's homeless people living there and urinating and defecating.

Walking the blocks are scary.

And last time I walked down the Santa Monica streets at night, absolutely terrified and said never

again.

I mean, while we were, I think we were at the entrance to a store.

We were going to get something to eat on the promenade.

And a crazy homeless guy ended up getting tackled by the police across the way.

There's all this pushing and shoving and yelling.

There's a commotion.

They've destroyed the 3rd Street promenade.

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