| What
do you like about Greater Bakersfield?
What are its strengths? |
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| Affordable
real estate |
10 |
| New
development downtown |
10 |
| Reasonable
cost of living |
10 |
| Central
location |
8 |
| Centennial
Garden |
8 |
| Recreational
advantages (Hart Park, Lake Ming) |
8 |
| River
Path |
7 |
| Variety
special events |
6 |
| Airport |
6 |
| Water
in the river |
6 |
| Charities
& Community involvement |
6 |
| Good
lifestyle |
6 |
| Roads-wide
and handy |
5 |
| Beale
Library |
5 |
| Good
business climate |
5 |
| High
speed rail possibility |
5 |
| Traffic
system |
4 |
| Small
town |
4 |
| Bakersfield
Park & Rec. District |
4 |
| Ethnic
variety of restaurants |
4 |
| AMTRAK
stop |
4 |
| Good
jobs |
4 |
| Uncrowded
-cheap golf courses |
3 |
| Unified
H.S. District |
3 |
| Friendly
safe neighborhoods |
3 |
| Underground
water banking |
2 |
| Cultural
@ colleges |
2 |
| Buck
Owens |
2 |
| Country
town |
2 |
| Air
quality is improving |
2 |
| Gardening-long
growing season |
2 |
| Support
for schools |
2 |
| Quality
home builders |
2 |
| Shopping |
2 |
| Access
to wilderness |
2 |
| Primary
schools district |
2 |
| Mild
winters |
1 |
| Palm
trees |
1 |
| Agricultural
land left |
1 |
| Parks @
Silver Creek |
1 |
| CSUB |
1 |
| Fair |
1 |
| CSUB
open to public for variety of activities |
1 |
| Museum |
|
| Oil
People |
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| Natural
resources-good |
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| Baby
carrots |
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| Mountains |
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| CALM |
|
| Art
Galleries |
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| No
mosquitoes |
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| Fresh
Fruit |
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| Wine
country |
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| Nice
Christmas lights |
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| Valley
Plaza |
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| Good
Wal-Mart on Rosedale Hwy |
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| What
are Greater Bakersfield's key weaknesses?
What don't you like? |
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| Air
pollution |
11 |
| Location
of new freeway (along the Kern River) |
8 |
| Airport,
air service, cost of air travel |
7 |
| Dumping
ground: sewage,
prisoners from large cities |
7 |
| Drug
problem |
6 |
| Educational
system: county, city, state |
6 |
| Policy
around infrastructure of new developments (streets &
sidewalks) |
6 |
| Homeless
problem |
6 |
| Wasting
ag land for houses |
5 |
| Unrestrained
growth agenda of city government |
5 |
| Rings
of new growth @ expense of decay |
4 |
| Crime |
4 |
| Emergency
rooms overcrowded |
4 |
| Urban
sprawl |
4 |
| Lack of
hard good manufactureres |
4 |
| Poor
quality of healthcare |
3 |
| 58
stopping in middle of town |
3 |
| Speed limits
too fast in residential areas |
3 |
| Too
many children being murdered |
3 |
| Potential
for dairies moving in |
3 |
| Not
enough activities for teenagers |
3 |
| Publicly
funded private enterprise |
3 |
| Valley
Fever |
3 |
| Lack of
quantity & quality of books in library |
2 |
| Restaurants |
2 |
| Street
names change at random |
2 |
| Street
maintenance |
2 |
| Limited
freeways |
2 |
| Lack of
synchronized lights |
2 |
| Lack of
response on Hwy 46 |
2 |
| City
& County fighting |
2 |
| Tax
breaks given to people coming in-unbalanced |
2 |
| No
engineering schools in Bakersfield |
2 |
| Poor
shopping |
1 |
| More
athletic facilities |
1 |
| Helicopter
flying with light |
1 |
| Continuing
with canal shopping center |
1 |
| Building
plans differ from finished product |
1 |
| S.E.
125 shootings, none in N.W. |
1 |
| No
street numbers |
1 |
| Town
has no identifiable persona |
1 |
| Annexation
process |
1 |
| Distribution
of county services outside of the city |
1 |
| 99
corridor very noisy |
1 |
| Look
like a hick town because of things we do |
1 |
| Corrupt
planning commission |
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| Poor
traffic lights system |
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| DMV |
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| Newspaper |
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| Mail
service |
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| Hillbilly
stigma |
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| Lack of
cultural activities |
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| Frequent
calls to Jury Duty |
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