If you were never from here you would probably stay in a nice hotel for a reasonable price. It would be summer time because that's when the weather is considered nicest. You would see the beautiful neighborhoods with row after row of yellow brick houses with white picket fences and sickly green grass. The summer nights would be full of warm breezes and the smell of barbeque in the air. The downtown life busy and vibrant filled with music. The traffic light and transportation not a worry because we have clean light rails and buses that run through our city up to the late hours. Everything would feel perfect with the the farmer’s markets and theaters. Plus our forever shining sun. Except for the rest of Sac (South, East, and West) and all the pollution, never ending traffic, gang and racial problems. And lets not forget the pockets.

 Everything may seem prim and perfect at first but, what no one realizes is that in all those tourist trap videos our city puts out there to make a little cash, only shows what people want to see. My version of Sac is different. I prefer the city in spring because that's when the flowers in the park downtown bloom giving it a sense of life. Most of the summer it's too smoky to go outside do to all the wildfires but, when it's not I enjoy the summer nights at our local drive-in that plays all the latest movies. The little things like this are exciting for me. And, I also live in South Sac, which is the heart of our city, but so forgotten. We are a colorful, loud, smart-mouth, impulsive, but lovable bunch of people. My house isn’t what is considered “perfect” either but I love it nonetheless. You would probably never see us in an ad about the city in fact you would only see a fourth of who we really are. But us here in South Sac help make this city what it is. So, I don’t completely  hate it here, I just wish our city was better taken care of.

 Like every city we have our fair share of issues. I mean the streets are gross. No, describing them as gross is an understatement, they’re full of trash, pee, plastic bottles, and so much more. We have way too many abandoned buildings just sitting there collecting dust while the city builds new ones. It makes no sense to waste money building another Walmart when there is a building conveniently sitting there perfect to become one all it needing is a few updates. Also minority people are very unrepresented in our cities government. If I were to go to the capital right now I would see very few people with my skin working there. And I'm not talking about as a doorman, janitor, or security worker. I'm talkin working in one of those stuffy offices with a secretary named Linda or something dressed in a suit or pant suit actually getting to put in their opinions into our legal systems. Plus the minorities face the most of the police brutality especially if you are black or mexican. And our schools, especially mine, could use so many updates to the buildings. I mean we’ve been sitting in the same desk since 1950 and we could use more computers. Not to mention the bad piping and the heating/Ac unit literally hangs from the ceiling posing as a safety hazard if there was ever an earthquake. The youth is our future why isn’t anyone investing money into us. I mean we have like 30 Mcdonalds and 50 Walmarts, can’t we get new desks and more technology.

 In a city where we literally have to catfish tourists into even considering coming here, I would say Sacramento needs to change if we plan on surviving the new world.