I just moved out of Modesto for college and I'm so glad to get out! Not only is car theft extremely high (mine has been stolen twice at school), but pollution is horrible, gang violence ripples throughout the entire community, it has scorching summers (sometimes 108+), NOTHING to do, shitty weed, tons of tweeks, almost no one goes to a 4 year school and if you do you only go the local CSU Stanislaus, it is flat, and anything fun you can do requires a string of illegal activities. Just drive through it and don't stop.