It is so sad. I’d like to vacation like I did 30 years ago in both San Fransico and LA, but now I fear to visit both those cities.
My favorite bar is Najas at the strand in Redondo Beach, would love to go back, but I don’t trust the area.
I don’t see me going back to California anytime soon.
Redondo Beach is no longer safe?
It’s funny how traveling is more popular now than ever. Especially with all the DINKs with no children, who have lots of time and money on their hands.
It’s a big status symbol. “I’ve been here, I’ve been there, I’ve been everywhere. Next year I’ll have to figure out a new place to go that I haven’t been yet”.
Meanwhile, practically any place that you can think of to travel to was much more interesting and vibrant 50 years ago.
I was in Salzburg Austria in 1971 when I was 9 years old. I still remember tons of people coming out of the classical music halls at night and streaming into the dessert cafes. Everybody all dressed up, eating cake and looking at their programs from the night’s performance.
It was 1971, but it could have been 1931 or 1881. Now everywhere you go you just see people staring at their phones. Most of them born long after 1971.
Ain’t Globalism grand?