When we pulled up to our spot earlier this evening, we noticed a thugish-like person throwing bottles into a dumpster, and then walking hard as if he was going to knuckle-up with the squirrels and the hummingbirds in the nearby bushes. Really, there was no one else near this idiot and he was walking like he was about to throw down in a bar fight. Dumb ass.
Now, I grew up on 116th St and 1st Avenue in New York City. If you know Manhattan, then you will know that this is one of the toughest neighborhoods to grow up in. I am not turning this into an auto-biography, but I spent my weeks there, and then my weekends in the Bronx.
Now, growing up in NYC, you seem some tough ass guys. You see tough ass guys walking around, handing out beat downs, and tough ass guys getting some beat downs themselves. In all of the years that I spent growing up in Spanish Harlem, I have not seen any "tough guys" walk around the neighborhood like they do around here. Who the hell, and where the hell do these local yocals think they come from. Do they really think they are in the middle of Harlem?
For their information: PEOPLE IN HARLEM, AND IN THE TOUGHEST PARTS IN NEW YORK DO NOT WALK AROUND LIKE YOU'RE HARD BECAUSE YOU JUST DON'T DO THAT. YOU HAVE LEARNED SOMETHING FROM MTV THAT IS A MAJOR MISCONCEPTION - STOP WATCHING STUPID SHOOT'EM UP VIDEOS AND RAPPERS ON TV AND STOP THINKING THAT'S THE REAL WORLD.
Have something to prove? Go free-style some lyrics with your local friends "off the top of the dome" at Arizona Mills Mall at Game Works and do the rest of the world a favor and stop walking around like you are hard and want to kick someone's ass before someone learns you a lesson. idiots.
Sorry about that tangent.
So anyway, my girlfriend and I hear all of this screaming, my ears perk up, I realize there are cops outside, and see this guy getting slammed down to the floor outside of my apartment at GALLERIA PALMS APARTMENTS SUCKS.
The pictures included in this post are of some wanna-be thug being pulled down onto the grass right in front of my apartment @ Galleria Palms.
Now, I have no idea what was going on, but these cops were running up with their hands on their guns ready to fire on this guy, and do you honestly think that I felt safe that very moment in my apartment?
I don't care if he was arguing about if it was his turn to watch TV, or if he was not getting any from his girl, or if he was breaking and entering, or fighting with his dad, or whatever. There was the Tempe Swat team 20 feet from my door taking this guy down like he stole hot sauce at a BBQ and it confirmed my suspicions of this apartment complex:
It sucks.
I mean, the cops kept on screaming to this guy: "You are under arrest - shut up!" "You are under arrest!!" "Do you get that?"
This is not something that I want to hear on a Sunday night while preparing to go to work the next day, pick up my daughter and bring her back to this healthy environment. Talk about reality check.
If you move here - be prepared to deal with the harsh reality that you have just moved into an extension of South Phoenix. The local area has slowly been declining and there are more and more undesirables moving into, traveling, and wandering through the area.
Coming home from a nice dinner with my girlfriend a few nights ago, I was confronted by 7 or so jerks that would not get out of my way while I was attempting to park my car. Check this out: I slowed to a snails pace to let these fools get out of the way, and they insisted on staying in my way. One of them practically touched my bumper and threatened me about trying to hit him. After I cooled down, I realized that this is something that I need to distance myself from. There is no telling if these thugs have guns on them, and if they do not live here, they are constantly cutting through the apartment complex. I had my girlfriend remind me that it is just not worth it, bite my tongue and just keep on driving.
She was right. I don't want to end up slain on the parking lot of Galleria Palms because I decided to try and put these guys in check. It is simply not worth it.
What a crappy apartment complex. I thought I was paying a premium to keep these people out.
If you think that you can try and out-price them by getting into a more expensive apartment in tempe with your above-average income think again. That's the idea that my me and my girlfriend had moving in here. We thought that we would just pay a little extra for a place, and maybe we can get away from the low-lifes.
Wrong.
I have a feeling that they are just letting people double, triple, and quadruple up on these apartments just to get tenants in.
Do you want to live next to this delinquency? Granted, you will have crime and delinquents everywhere, but do you want to live right next to it here at Galleria Palms? I think that the answer is no. You do not want to put yourself, your girlfriend, wife, husbands, boyfriends, friends, children and infants in danger.
Do you yourself a favor - find another apartment complex that has better security, REAL GATES that actually work most of the time, and not just gates for show, better staff and management in the front office, and most of all, make sure they don't have your car towed for some silly reason.
I think they should be doing a better job monitoring who they allow at Galleria Palms instead of having good tenants vehicles towed to some dump impound.
My girlfriend is seriously worried for her safety. Can you blame her after looking at the pictures in this thread? What am I supposed to tell her?
This is what I told her: "As soon as we humanly can, we will move as quickly as possible into a better living situation."
This place is not safe as you can see from the nice view of my windows.
Rent somewhere else.
If you have any similar experience living @ Galleria Palms, please do a service to the community and post here so that we can discover the truth about Galleria Palms.
