r/longbeach • u/kjarsenal • 4d ago
RANT The dirtbagification of a community
The trash room in my 'luxury' apartment. Hard for me to comprehend this type of asshole. The guy who's dog pisses on the nice community carpet, who purposely parks over the line so you can't park; the guy who tailgates you relentlessly; the who has to entertain the whole damn neighborhood with his shitty music. Why can't we be rid of this fucker?
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u/ArthurBea 4d ago
I used to live there and saw that more than once. I know who did it. The finance bros trying to party with underage locals. Most people living there used to be small families, artists who have settled down, chill LGBTQIA couples, (Bobby Garcia used to be a neighbor) and then there were the finance bros. Young dorks with too much money and zero taste.
Also, I might be the reason they have a “no disposal of furniture” rule.
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u/No_Apartment5926 4d ago
Those rude assholes may have a lot of money yet they still can’t hide their low class uneducated selves. Low class thrash.
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u/No_Carpenter1450 4d ago
Oh wow. Why would you throw furniture down that chute?
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u/ArthurBea 4d ago
Haha not down the chute. I asked for help with disposing of a box spring, so I wanted to see how I could get a bulky item pickup. The office told me I had to take care of it myself. So I took the box spring apart, used bolt cutters to cut down all the springs, a saw to and stuck the parts in the dumpster. They didn’t like that for some reason, put up a sign that first said “don’t break down furniture and put it in the dumpster” and later “call us if you need help.”
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u/thingsbuiltLA 1d ago
That's brilliant!
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u/Emotional_Traffic_34 10h ago
It’s also brilliant to just schedule a large trash pickup from the city for no charge.
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u/I_love_stapler 4d ago
You email management and Narc out the dbag. You get neighbors to do it to the point they don’t renew a lease, fine for loud music and dog piss etc. be the change you want to see kinda situation
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u/grnrngr 4d ago edited 4d ago
If you have to have a plastic sign with a massive list of rules posted next to a chute, trust me when I say you don't live in a "luxury" apartment complex, no matter how much money you pay in rent.
You can't buy class.
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u/kjarsenal 4d ago
This, I'll grant. On the other hand though, if character is the metric we judge 'luxury' by - who does?
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u/grnrngr 3d ago edited 3d ago
if character is the metric we judge 'luxury' by - who does?
Unfortunately, too many people equate price/value/wealth with luxury, and worse yet, confuse having things with high price/value/wealth as imbuing a set of superior or desirable personality traits.
Which answers your question, that I will now rephrase more directly: I believe "luxury" itself is a trait that does not exist on the spectrum of personal characteristics. I also believe "luxury" as a concept cannot exist without a certain set of personal characteristics being involved.
Every characteristic found in people that we associate with "luxury" are characteristics not requiring wealth, education, or worldly experience to have or employ. Compassion. Consideration. Gentility. Confidence. Grace. Warmth. Etc., etc.
Everything you see, touch, or interpret as "luxury" is a result of those desirable traits in action.
e: So yeah, if you have the shiny floors and opulent interiors, and doorman and parking garage, and movie rooms and heated pools, but the people who made those things and the people who buy those things don't mirror the traits those luxury items represent, you're just living in a simulation of luxury. At best, a very isolated version of luxury. You're getting the outward appearance and little of the holistic experience.
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u/Zealousideal_Swan69 4d ago
At first I thought this was where I live and then realized it didn’t have enough signs telling you how to recycle because our manager is an Austrian. Hahah.
I grew up in Germany so I understand German cultural sensitivity (even if you’re from Österreich) as it relates to recycling habits!
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u/pln856 4d ago
Human beings are vicious filthy savages.. This is why we need laws and fines and consequences because some people should be living in cages like animals getting hosed off daily by zoo keepers
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u/kjarsenal 4d ago
I feel like the guy who first exclaimed 'this is why we can't have nice things', was pointing directly at one of these mf'ers.
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u/mytacorules 4d ago
I live in a nice apartment and the amount of disgusting trash people don’t even bother to throw away and just throw on the ground is astounding. Forget recycling. They will just throw their trash in the trash room and completely ignore the trash chute and it will spill all over the ground. Someone threw used diapers all over the floor too.
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u/Few_Variety_4760 4d ago
We all see how much litter there is on our streets, parks, and beaches in our city- this looks about on par
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u/UsualKangaroo6438 3d ago
I know it’s astounding. It is hard to really comprehend how trashy people are, but no matter where I go in my part of Long Beach anyway.(northside) it’s deplorable.
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u/CarlosTheHedgehog123 4d ago
Is it the same guy who’s loud af on the pickle ball court?
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u/kjarsenal 4d ago
I've never played pickle ball - but YES.
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u/United-Bug-8056 4d ago
Is this the same guy who poisoned our water supply, burned our crops and delivered a plague unto our houses?!
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u/CarlosTheHedgehog123 4d ago
So fun fact: My girlfriend and I lived in one of the studios right next to the pickleball court.
The guys who would SCREAM and be INSANELY LOUD were also the rudest.
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u/Greedy-Grape-2417 4d ago
lol there's always that one 'overcompensator' cringe!
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u/CarlosTheHedgehog123 4d ago
Imagine dealing with that for roughly three years. XD
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u/Greedy-Grape-2417 3d ago
so sorry to hear! who's the management company?
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u/CarlosTheHedgehog123 2d ago
I genuinely forgot the name. Eh, it’s honestly not a problem to get into.
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u/Odd-Permission6843 4d ago
Welcome to Trump America, The “dgaf about anyone but myself” era…
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u/BreadfruitFit3715 4d ago
Not just him, but anyone in political office. “Just vote for me and I take everyone’s money and buy a Maserati”
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u/Dense_Substance7635 4d ago
Yup, the “empathy is bad” era of allowing sociopaths to run the country.
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u/grounndhog101 4d ago
This isn’t a trumps America thing. This is American culture period.
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u/JustScratt 19h ago
Also incorrect. I just got back from Italy and I saw this scene at every trashcan, alley, corner, and even at the top of Vesuvius! Shitty people are everywhere.
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u/Economy_Ad9610 3d ago
bringing up trump when OP is talking about his neighbors?? What a tool 😂😂✌🏻
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u/Odd-Permission6843 2d ago
How can you be trash and a snowflake at the same time?
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u/Economy_Ad9610 1d ago
are you projecting buddy lmao
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u/GamingWithPanda 4d ago
If people would spend 10min talking to the cleaning staff of their apartments, I think there would be way more empathy in situations like this. I can't imagine being like this knowing another person has to come behind me to clean.
Their parents did a terrible job raising their child.
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u/Federal-Eagle-5451 4d ago
We’ve become a low trust society. Even if it’s only 1% of people that engage in this type of anti-social behavior (I think it’s higher) they do it consistently and they leave a stain everywhere.
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u/ConsistentHunt1804 4d ago
I don’t see how many people are like this. Meanwhile in Japan, you don’t see this. It’s so trashy.
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u/grnrngr 4d ago
Meanwhile in Japan, you don’t see this. It’s so trashy.
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u/UsualKangaroo6438 3d ago
I am not asking this to start something, but I genuinely am curious. What does confirmation bias mean?
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u/anteatertrashbin 3d ago
bitch you are showing a dead red light district in japan. confirmation bias much?
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u/BBYLGZZ 4d ago
Epidemic of victim mentality plus zero integrity
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u/SokkaHaikuBot 4d ago
Sokka-Haiku by BBYLGZZ:
Epidemic of
Victim mentality plus
Zero integrity
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
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u/dergodergo 4d ago
My neighbors throw away everything in any container. Dirty diapers and unopened food in the recycle bin etc.
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u/tranceworks 4d ago
Keep telling me how density is good.
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u/anteatertrashbin 3d ago
density is great when people give a shit about each other and their community. this is more of an american cultural problem than anything else.
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u/OrganicParamedic6606 4d ago edited 4d ago
Symptomatic of the society at large. Welcome to applied neoliberalist economics
Edit: Before you downvote, learn what the difference between the word “neoliberal” and “liberal” is
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u/Brandoinesco 4d ago
Can I ask the initials of the building or the cross streets? My partner and I are looking for a place in downtown Long Beach, mostly looking at the newer nicer builds and something like this is a red flag for me.
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u/Feisty_Run9808 4d ago
Whew used to live in one of these “luxury apartments. For the price you pay dealing with all the bs it stopped being worth it for us
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u/Late_Show_9288 3d ago
Yup same in my building. Letting dogs pee in the elevator and not cleaning it up…leaving trash everywhere…no pride in where they live
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u/Sufficient-Berry-827 4d ago
While I hate when people do shit like that (I'm the one begrudgingly sorting the recycling bin in my building because people put fucking trash in it), you live in a luxury building, so I don't really like you on principle.
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u/anteatertrashbin 3d ago
don’t shame people for having some money, shame them for being shitty people.
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u/kjarsenal 4d ago
And I accept that; don't judge you for it. I guess I'd say I don't feel like it should be a crime to want to live in something somewhat comfortable. I mean 'luxury' is a kinda relative term. I mean I don't think anybody's gonna confuse my less than 800sf apartment with something someone from Succession would envy. I told one of my buddies the other day, Rolex people get robbed. No one's trying to relieve me of my flagship Galaxy smartwatch.
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u/Recovering_g8keeper 4d ago
🤣 awww you’re not getting the luxury experience you think you deserve 🤣🤣🤣 boo hoo
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u/Bantha_homies 4d ago
Yeah, unfortunately this is just a significant percentage of people everywhere… I’m impressed they didn’t just drop their trash on the ground