Finally, I find a post I can identify with.
I am a native Californian also. My parents migrated (separately) from the Midwest, for job opportunities and warmer weather.
Los Angeles was still liveable when I was growing up. I later moved to Santa Monica and that was still nice, too, but then came a huge wave ... HUGE ... of Yuppies from New York.
That was the beginning of the end. They trashed everything good about our lifestyle and now this place is harshed out beyond belief or repair.
We also have the south-of-the-border illegals mexicanizing the place and that is another story.
But the New Yorkers were the ones who destroyed our idyll.
I remember that, mid 70's, right? All of a sudden there were NY license plates everywhere in in the south and southwest areas of San Fernado valley. Sickening NY accents every time you turned around. Beginning of the end..........Politics took a sharp left turn right after that.