This season, on the CW network, a television series, called Beverly Hills 90210, began. In the series, a family from Wichita moves to Beverly Hills. Although the father grew up in California, the family finds that life in California is much different than life in Kansas. In the nineties, the original Beverly Hills 90210 was very popular. In that series, a family moved from Minneapolis to Beverly Hills. They also found that life was very different in each of the cities. In the show, life in California was very fast-paced compared to life in Minnesota. Teens were spoiled, able to charge thousands of dollars on their parents’ plastic. Underage drinking and drug use were among many of the problems that the show portrayed, along with shoplifting and other crimes. Was the show simply the fictional work of the writer, or were the episodes pulled from real life? How do Minnesota criminal records compare with those of California?    Read more...