No kidding Einstein, didn't think I had to point the obvious out, but I guess trolls don't see well. You obviously have never been to Stockton, yet feel good with bashing it, nothing new. There is a lot of good things that do go on here, but the media hardly ever reports good news about Stockton. They prefer to point out the bad so their city looks slightly less crappy. Sacramento and Modesto both have a high crime rate as well, and both have suffered at the housing market fall.
The only difference in those cities was that Stockton was ran by fools that bet on the market never going down. Stockton has a long hard road ahead of it, but there is a lot of people finally getting involved to turn it around. If Stockton can get the crime problem fixed then the city will recover quite nicely.
I was in Stockton yesterday. Fortunately I was done with work just around lunch, so I made sure to drive over the Altamont pass before eating so I wouldn't have to watch my back at the cash register.
Stockton is an epic shithole, end of story. I'd rather live in Bakersfield and that's saying something.