In which part of Los Angeles do you reside?
I don't live there anymore.
Where I live now I don't have to talk to the gas station clerk through an inch of bullet-proof glass and I don't have to pay for the gas in advance. I don't see graffiti scrawled over every square inch of concrete. I don't see see twenty foot fences on highway overpasses to keep morons from throwing cinder blocks on the road below. I don't have to pay a toll charge to call a city ten miles away.
I moved because I could, quite literally, see the handwriting on the wall.