“Yes you are.”
You don’t know what you are talking about.
I grew up in southern California, from the mid 1950s on.
I witnessed all the favorable and unfavorable changes since then, including with frequent visits to friends and family who are still there over the years since I moved from there - about 1970. None of those friends and family live in the Los Angeles area and all are very glad they do not.
ALL of southern California is not Los Angeles, not even Los Angeles county.
You’re in New Jersey and telling me about the LA area? Funny stuff. I forgot more about that region than you ever knew. Whether you like it or not, people have been referring to S.CA as LA forever and for good reason.
Once again, I could take someone from LA to Santa Ana and they wouldn’t know where LA started or stopped. It all looks the same and it’s all connected together. Are you so ignorant ya can’t understand that?