City-wide Wireless Access in my hometown
Whenever people ask me where I'm from, my response is "L.A.". I'm not really from L.A., but from one of the many suburbs of L.A., one which you wouldn't know unless you came from Southern California. It's a small town called Cerritos. It's claim to fame? A plane crash in 1986, and the famous Cerritos Auto Square -- one of the largest auto malls in the nation. Cerritos was the second wealthiest city in the U.S. with a population of 50,000.
My parents and I moved to Cerritos when I was one year old. I believe my parents bought the house for around $50,000 in 1976. Today, the house is worth close to half a million dollars. Since then, the city of Cerritos has changed alot. The city grew along with me, and kept growing. When I returned home from college my first year away, new shopping plazas had been built, empty land lots had turned into townhouses and strip malls, and I could scarcely recognize the town. Up until a few years ago, one could still find horse ranches in the city.
I was pretty shocked when I read the headline and it mentioned Cerritos, but
seeing them add wireless access doesn't surprise me in the least, because for the last couple of years, Cerritos has been tremendously wealthy. One of the more recent expenditures of the city was to (again) remodel the library. I haven't been there since the remodel, but it cost over 20 million dollars... and added such necessities to the library such as a large wall aquarium and the skeleton of a T-Rex.
I'm just happy that soon I'll be able to surf on broadband when I'm in Cerritos.
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