I was raised in Hawthorne... not far from Redondo Beach... my dad got his PhD at USC... but that was the 60's. It was a cool place. The Beach Boys were from Hawthorne. But the batshit-crazy marxist politics have completely ruined the place. I suppose you get used to anything after a while, if you want to wallow in your own shit, I don't judge. It's just not for me.
I've lived in San Diego, Big Sur, Bay Area, North Coast, a number of places in the Central Valley ... currently in Jefferson ... maybe get out more, LA ain't all of California ... I'm sorry your streets are covered in shit, but that's LA, what did you expect? ... it's always been a shitty place to live ... even when the Mexicans owned it they thought it a shit-hole ... the area's only virtue is we can poke a railroad in without having to cross the Sierras ...
63ºF at 9am in the morning ... out-of-work snowplow drivers are your problem there ...
LA has always been a bit of a shithole. I grew up in Carpinteria between Ventura and Santa Barbara. It was an idyllic small town to grow up in 60's and 70's. By the 90's everything between Ventura and LA was a nonstop strip mall and traffic was miserable. Even worse now.
Do you know PB? Pacific Beach near San Diego is still one of my favorite places to go in the winter. Went for another couple weeks recently. LOVE the boardwalk. LOVE the college girls in their bikinis. And the cool thing is, winter is their offseason for some reason.
It was high 60s/ low 70s when I was there. Nice escape from the cold, rainy Oregon Coast. Plan on doing a home exchange this fall right after school's back in session. PB is still the bomb!
LA has always been a bit of a shithole. I grew up in Carpinteria between Ventura and Santa Barbara. It was an idyllic small town to grow up in 60's and 70's. By the 90's everything between Ventura and LA was a nonstop strip mall and traffic was miserable. Even worse now.
Do you know PB? Pacific Beach near San Diego is still one of my favorite places to go in the winter. Went for another couple weeks recently. LOVE the boardwalk. LOVE the college girls in their bikinis. And the cool thing is, winter is their offseason for some reason.
It was high 60s/ low 70s when I was there. Nice escape from the cold, rainy Oregon Coast. Plan on doing a home exchange this fall right after school's back in session. PB is still the bomb!
I prefer Mission Beach ... a little less commercial development ... but yeah, PB's the bomb ... I lived in North Park and did some time in ESD and up in Ramona ... suntanning on Christmas Day ...
For many many years, my "hot spot" to visit was Florence, still getting my bearings around Coos Bay ... we get a bit of a break from the rain here in the inland valleys ... less fog in summer ... Trump Country ... nice to be away from the insanity in Eugene ... morons ...
Anywhere that illegals can't afford to settle is nice..weird coincidence huh...and the premise of this thread.
Anywhere that illegals can't afford to settle is nice..weird coincidence huh...and the premise of this thread.
Ouch ... that hurts ... Coos Bay is the
only town over 10,000 people along the entire Oregon Coast, about 16,000 ... very few whities can afford to settle there either ... where the mountains meet the ocean ... not many farms that need migrant labor ...
Portland is noted for being a sanctuary city ... but that's required under state law ... all of Oregon's cities are sanctuary cities, we're a sanctuary state ... we even issue driver's licenses without regard to immigration status ... ha ha ha ha ... public schools are mandated to search for illegal's children and teach them English ... we love the Mexicans here, they've been great friends and neighbors ... wish we had more work for them so more would come ...
Mexican's bring their culture with them, and make it a part of what it means to be an American ... just like my Dutch forebearers brought capitalism with them, and made it a part of the fabric of our nation ...