Bakersfield

[Jason Yan]

With a population of nearly a half million, it is the third largest inland city in California. God knows why, its a pretty horrible place, with summer (late May-late October) temperatures averaging in the high 90s and air quality that can practically disable you. Winter is short and usually doesnt get colder than 50 degrees in the daytime.
Meth is as easily found as soda machines and getting drunk at parties in the middle of fields is a common Friday night activity.
Housing used to be dirt-cheap, but as of recently its increased drastically. Statistics show that every single day 10 people from LA move into Bakersfield.
Ridiculously, there is only one real shopping mall ([Valley Plaza]) so at any given time it is too crowded to take a breath.
Much of the population are Mexicans that [hop the border] and invade town then clog the streets protesting their deserved rights when they are not even citizens.
Areas of town are sort of defined by the high schools: [South High] (southside), East High (eastside) {dont walk the streets at night because you WILL get stabbed by a mexican gang}, North High (north) {A.K.A. Oildale- which isnt a city in itself, just a name for the trailer park/white trash part of town, [West High] (west) {if you want to get shot, eat at a taco bell}, [Ridgeview] High {out in the middle of fucking nowhere}. Then there are the snobby, rich schools around the Northwest/Southwest part of the city such as [Centennial] High, [Liberty High], and [Stockdale High]. Liberty is home to the hottest, most shallow kids in the whole city. If youre not good-looking, youre invisible.
Friday night high school football games rule many kids lives. If youre not a jock, then youre going to be pretty fucking bored and will resort to devoting your life to the hXc! music scene. (Scene kids in Bakersfield are known to be pretentious jerks.) You will spend your every waking moment in the sweaty, roach-infested basement of Jerrys Pizza watching shitty local bands lose their voices.

[Jessica]

An industrial city in south central California, an oil industry center in the San Joaquin Valley; population 321,078 (est. 2008).