by Eldon-Mr.CFAY » Sat Jan 07, 2012 5:07 pm
Hi Everyone, First off a Very Happy New Year to everyone!!!! Hope 2012 is great for you all!!! Yes I would avoid travelling to Mexico, I know several people from Mexico and they are living in Langley and are great people. Several young families from the City of Chihuahua. It seems like one of the nicer cities in Mexico, higher in elevation and sort of like the Calgary of Mexico from what I have heard. However with all the incidents in other parts of Mexico I would really hesistate on travelling there for business or vacation. I tend to be very careful about things like that!!!!
However I do agree with Dan, knowing Surrey extremely well and having grown up there although I was born in New Westminster!!!! I consider New Wes;t. my hometown!!!! Anyway North Surrey particularly the Whalley area has gotten worse and worse over the last 20 or 30 years. I know they have a high-tech new library and high-rises plus the SFU Campus at Surrey Place but there are still a lot bad things going on there. Dianne Watts is a great Mayor for Surrey but she has an extemely big challenge in restoring Whalley (North Surrey) to a more civilized state!!!! When we had C-FAY on-air there back in the late 1960s and early 1970s there were some pretty strange things happening then, just ask VE7ROX and RadioFan!!! At that time is was better than now!!!! So you could well be right Dan the North Surrey crime rate could be higher than your average Mexican City away from the border areas!!!! On the other hand South Surrey=White Rock and Cloverdale are much nicer areas and I really like them!!!! If someone gave me property for free in the Whalley area I wouldn't live there. This is from someone who went to school there and grew up there!!!! Most of my relatives, cousins etc. have moved out and living in the Okanagan, Langley or White Rock area!!!! One of my cousins had her son gunned down in the North Newton area heading towards Whalley, that was about 15 years ago!!!! Anyway it was her only child and she was devastated by it, she now lives in Langley Township and is remarried and has a new son!!!! I could write a huge book about all the different things I wtnessed in Whalley! Having lived in Toronto, Calgary, Mission and Langley and travelled into the states including ghetto areas of Cleveland, Ohio and Portland I must say that some of the stuff that goes on in Whalley is as bad or worse as some of the worst areas of the USA.
Anyway that gives one another take on this topic!!!! All the best for 2012 to everyone!!!!