[AnnaZ]

Yes, but you can see flowers and do some outdoor BBQ during winter, or so I'm told fairly frequently.

My freesia and star jasmine are blooming (and enchanting me). Grilled rib-eyes are planned for Sunday. (Other bonuses include palm trees framing a view of snow-capped mountains, the Getty, and In 'N Out Burger.)

 

It's still worth it. But, sometimes, barely.

[Dog Gone]

I was born in Glendale, lived there for years and in northern California for longer. I returned there to attend USC.

Southern California is special, but conditions (not the weather) have changed in the past couple of decades. You can never return to the past, but you can have valid concerns about the future.

I can never return there. I'd have to give up too much of a chunk of my net worth just to get housing.