[muawiyah]

As I recall (on a visit to the BMC at Bell) there's a couple of major roads there that appear to be major outlets for chop shop automobile parts.

There are also liquor stores around.

[truthguy]

Yes, you could make an argument that a city manager should make a good salary if the city were Minneapolis or Boston. But Bell isn't even a city per se. It's a suburban cesspool. A high school student could do as well.