Palos Verdes is gorgeous. Lovely micro climate, great views, great beaches. Except you can’t get anywhere from there. It’s a good place to live and work. If you work anywhere outside the South Bay or port, forget it.
Worked in Hawthorne at National Cash Register. Brought them the entire systems development group of the U of Chicago. We said free hours. They thought we meant coming in at 10 am. All but one was gone in a year. Driving to the grocery store was a challenge. Used to see cars upside down between the roads. And the road surface was always bad because the earth was moving. We were on the cliff, surrounded by flower farms and would go to sleep to “Talk to the Animals” playing at Seaworld. I absolutely loved it!