[Jim Brierley]

Things are pretty much the same everywhere. We live in a SoCal wine growing area, we are on a short dirt road with 15 homes on our street, plus 2 more across Brierley Creek.
It is a great neighborhood, we all get along fine, help each other out and even have a yearly Christmas party! we are just outside of Temecula, a city of 113,000 people, about 10,000 when we bought our property in 1985. Most people are not quite as rude as those spoken about above, it is a tourist town, so two different types of folks, vastly different. I walk with a cane, and a noticeable list to one side, and am constantly amazed at how helpful people are, opening doors for me, carrying packages into the post office, etc. One thing is that it is mostly the mid to older people that are the helpful ones. The tats and nose rings are just as ugly as anywhere, I assume those people don't have mirrors in their homes, so don't realize how bad they look??? Lord help us!!!