Flew home to LA last night from NY. Had a blast in Manhattan, but waking up at the beach this morning was nice. I think LA gets a bad rap from tourists because they spend a lot of time driving through the "concrete jungle". These "rich" ball players are living in really nice areas. For me all the beach communities are nice from Malibu south through. Orange county. (I believe Kove lives in Orange county. Don't get me wrong, for me Portland will always be home, and I love the city. But living in SoCal without a daily commute ain't bad. 70 degrees at the beach all this week. When i go for my walk during the lunch hour today, I will more than likely be the only one there.
Orange County is really nice too. You can live in Santa Clarita and get a great house for a decent price; being only 15-20 minutes away from downtown.
I lived on N. Orange street in Hollywood. Gunfights in the Holiday Inn parking lot. Found some guys head in the dumpster. A guitar player friend was murdered on the street for his instrument. I split a sudio apartment with a bass player from Buffalo, NY, paying a ridiculously high price. One night, he goes to close the sliding glass window and it come off the track, cut the shit out of his hand, so I drive him to the emergency room in Hollywood. Serious wound, bleeding like hell, and we waited 4 hours because we were behind the stabbings and gun shot wounds on the priority list. Charming place.
So many people here copy his FB posts onto this board I figured you got it there. My bad. In his FB post, he tells Portland fans not to worry.
2200 square foot 90s tract housing for about $650k. and Santa Clarita is not 15-20 minutes from downtown, more like 30-45 without traffic. its like 20-30 miles. its like 40 miles from LAX.
About right but it looks like it is dropped and is now slowly rising back up. I just found this: http://www.city-data.com/city/Santa-Clarita-California.html
I'm sure I would have loved LA in the 40s or 50s, and even the 60s, but now its a yellow-aired over populated rats nest. If I win the lottery maybe I'll fly down and you can show me these "right places" you speak of.
It was more polluted in the 80's. Things really cleaned up in 2000. It's actually not that bad in air quality. We've managed to find a way to use thermal propulsion to blow the smog to Riverside. They don't need good air quality. Most of them are on meth anyway.
It was more polluted in 1970. Then the liberal environmental laws cleaned the air. I was gone 1974-89. When I moved back in 89 I was very surprised at how clear the LA air was. You could actually see hills a mile away. Before, they had been an orange blur.
yeah, its only the worst in the nation. http://www.stateoftheair.org/2012/city-rankings/most-polluted-cities.html :MARIS61: http://www.webmd.com/asthma/ss/slideshow-worst-smog-cities
In my town you can see a mountain 60 miles away. With no orange tint. LA is Hell but it used to be even worse.
