Yes both lovely, gorgeous hillside towns. Secluded suburbs, but within earshot distance of Downtown LA and views of it to boot. And quite expensive housing nowadays!
La Crescenta is seen as a high altitude off-shoot of neighboring Glendale, and continues to have the more rugged, rural feel you may have been familiar with! While La Canada Flintridge continues on its luxury-minded trajectory. Upscale, without the flash, fame, and glamour of Beverly Hills or even the Palisades. But it still boasts among the most expensive housing in LA County and the nation.
According to realtor.com - median listing home price in LCF as of Nov 2024 was $3.4 Million.
Not exactly the price you’d want to be paying for weekly power outages.
Unless we stop shutting down coal plants and other forms of reliable energy production, then we are going to be in a lot of trouble as a nation within the near future. No one is really talking about this, but as an insider, I can tell you that it is one of the greatest threats to America we face. Reliability is everything, and too many foolish people either don’t realize it or don’t care.