15 HONEST Pros & Cons of Living in Los Angeles, California

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[DallasBiff]

Are you thinking about moving to Los Angeles? We’ve been fortunate enough to call this city home and wanted to provide a comprehensive list of the honest pros and cons of living in Los Angeles, California.

Los Angeles’ five counties are Los Angeles, Orange County, San Bernardino, Riverside and Ventura. Collectively, they make up the metro area of Los Angeles, which is home to 13.2 million residents as of 2022.

[DallasBiff]

Oh Gawd gag me with a spoon, as Moon Unit Zappa, would say.

[BigFreakinToad]

Same response as NYC...I wouldn’t drop a good Texas turd in any Kali city

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Driving anywhere is a major headache. I used to live in the San Fernando valley - just getting to work every day was a chore. By the time the weekends came around, I was so sick of driving that we never went anywhere. Only way around it is to plan to leave early in the day or very late in the evening.

[Mark]

“Just give me the facts. Nothing but the facts.”

[DownInFlames]

Pros

1. Weather
2. Beautiful Women
3. Beaches

Cons

1. Crime
2. Politicians
3. Immigration
4. High cost of living
5. Over Populated
6. Jobs

[JSM_Liberty]

Good: Weather
Bad: Traffic

[Gay State Conservative]

I saw her appear with her father on Letterman when she was about 15. She was quite articulate and very,very cute. I wonder what she looked like at 40.

[dragnet2]

1. Weather
2. Beautiful Women
3. Beaches

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My last 10 years I lived in the LA area never went back to the beach...Parking became horrific and expensive, can’t have fires on the beach, get arrested for drinking a beer...It became evident low life, gangsters, pedophiles and homeless love beaches. Been there, done that, left there.

[KC Burke]

Women who are bat-sh!t crazy don’t get evaluated for beauty.

[ByteMercenary]

Remember, when using the ‘Hot - Crazy Matrix’ female evaluation system, on the 0 thru 10 Crazy axis all women are at least level 4 crazy.

[Pelham]

Pay a million for a house in crowded and decaying suburbia.

The better suburbs are colonies of various immigrant groups, the majority of which vote for Gavin Newsome, Kamala Harris and the hard Left.

Press 2 for English.

You get to enjoy the quaint customs of the cultures that are replacing Americans.

[KC Burke]

The years we had friends and family out there requiring the occasional visit have passed. My wife always complained while there that she wanted to leave and return to America.

[WKTimpco]

I have lived in the LA area several times throughout the last few decades.

There are benefits of living there, naturally, but I agree that one negative pretty much erases all the benefits.

Of course, it’s the traffic.

Not even Silicon Valley (where I live) compares in terms of LA’s bad traffic.

In LA, there is no time of the day or night that traffic would most likely *not* slow you down. When I was in business school, I tried to live as close to my school as possible. But even then, a five-minute drive on a good day could easily take 40 minutes or more. The bad days outnumbered the good days by a lot. I have many other examples like this.

Just *thinking* about driving some place in the LA area would give me a headache. So, basically, you keep yourself isolated in order to avoid dealing with the humongous hassle that is driving in the LA area.

[bicyclerepair]

In the 90s my job sent me there for 6 weeks. It was a nice novelty. But I would NEVER live there. Saw the sun once. (San Fernando valley)

That’s where I first heard Jagged Little Pill on the radio.

[AppyPappy]

My brother lived in North Hollywood for decades and never went to the beach. He claimed that LA’s biggest asset was it was easy to be gay(he’s gay). Besides that, you are waiting for the next earthquake or riot

[dragnet2]

I went through the '92 LA riots, better part of a week long. The most deadly, most costly riot in U.S. history. After that I never looked at my native state the same. I came to realize just how vulnerable everything is, and found when the wheels come off, and things get real ugly, the cops became as rare as hen's teeth.

And those who think the Koreans stood them off in Koreatown because of some pic of them on a roof top with long guns...Way too little too late. What really happened was the rioters left Koreatown looted and burned out.

[AppyPappy]

My brother said his neighborhood was controlled by a Hispanic gang and they just wiped out the gun stores and left everyone else alone. They did protect their turf. But his place was robbed constantly. They even stole his cat. That’s when he moved back to where we grew up.

[vespa300]

Pros: The Sizzler

Cons: Too numerous to mention

we going sizzler, we going sizzler....

[Buttons12]

I have friends who are residents of Beverly Hills. When they come to PA they act like they’re in a foreign country. What’s ordinary here (farms, churches, buildings more than 20 years old) is extraordinary to them. We went to an old diner, one of those 1950ish places, like a giant chrome grill on an antique auto. You’d have thought it was a new section of Disneyland, the way they carried on.
They said the streets were very narrow here...so I took them on a side trip to historic Philadelphia, where there are streets too narrow for cars :D
They were very impressed with the cows, the corn, the pastures we have here.
They’re in their 20’s but they are very unfamiliar with anyplace beyond SoCal.
Me, I’ve been to CA. The ocean is pretty impressive. So are the stores. But if I want that, plus crime and taxes out of control — NYC and the Jersey shore are closer.

[Jolla]

Having lived in So Cal her assessment is pretty right on. But on the con if you cannot afford a home and can't get a job and everything is expensive, whats the point of the good stuff.