Reply #31: I miss LA. Lived there for a while.

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I know everybody thinks either Beverly Hills or South Central when they think of LA.

But there's Hollywood/Echo park, other pockets around downtown, Inland/Pas, Inglewood, South Bay, LBC and the Valley (not quite as much in the hillside communities), and you have areas pretty much anybody could and would want to live - without commuting an hour to work. But when you have extremes in rich/poor communities, they are truly, mind-blowingly extreme - but in pockets, like you say.

Compare to a city like Dayton, where the river and hills physically divide white/wealthy/conservative and black/poor/progressive.

What sucks most about LA is most people can't build equity in a home. No wealth, no long-term stability. Which is why I moved.