Me thinks a few posters here need to get out and travel a little bit. Every city on the planet has good areas and bad areas. And the bad areas, which dominate the crime stats, don't define an entire urban area. I have never visited Stockton but I am sure an AHL hockey player would have no problem living away from the gangs and meth addicts. And I am sure that an AHL hockey player, with a salary above the US median, will be able to find a nice safe and affordable condo to rent in one of likely a zillian such complexes around the city. Stockton may well be a dump--like I said I have never been there and the Central Valley of CA does have some crappy cities--but the characterization here of the scary American city is pretty comical.
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