Imagine what it would be like without Camp Pendleton to prevent merging. Moved away from the area in 1990.
The massive buildup of the area betweein the 405 and 15 really shocks me from satellite pictures.
We lived by LAX when I was a little boy around 1955. CA had 10 million people then. We were only there a couple years and I grew up in upstate, NY. When I moved to CA after graduating from college in 1973, it had about 20 million people.
Today it has 40 million people. The quality of life really deteriorated with each doubling of the population.