This all started in the 1980s when the state apparently decided it was not going to do anything about Illegal Aliens. Before then, all the construction jobs were done by Americans and most of the service related jobs were done by American Teens. I know this because I had those jobs.
My observations, my family's observations, my friends observations have all been consistently the same, LA is akin to a third-world country.
You may have not noticed the difference because you grew up with it.
I had the privilege to see how great the state of California was before it was soiled by the Illegal Aliens.
And it is still my hope, however dim, that at some point, this state may return to it's greatness.
It will never attain that greatness, however, without removing those who have willingly and with total disregard violated our laws in terms of both felonies and misdemeanors.
“I had the privilege to see how great the state of California was before it was soiled by the Illegal Aliens.”
California was the Golden State, the place most every American teen felt he or she had to visit while young, at least that’s how it was through about the late seventies.
I don’t hear it referred to as that dreamy place everyone should visit so much anymore.
And, I always heard they had the nations best schools, at least in earlier times.
I was born before you were. And, isn’t it interesting how none of my native L.A. friends think of this as a 3rd world city. I guess we just run in different circles.
I have seen changes here, of course. I am not blind. I sense a supercilious tone in your posts to me.
Every city on earth has changed over time, especially over the past half century. It is inevitable.