Where to live in LA area

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Anonymous wrote:My first choice would be Cheviot Hills, a charming neighborhood right next to Century City. I used to work in Century City and would drive through there to get to work and wish I lived there.

Also, I have friends who moved from Arlington to El Segundo and have been really happy with their neighborhood

Agree with Cheviot. If you do that, look at St Paul the Apostle for schools.

Also, Playa Vista isn’t a bad choice, OP.

$500k is tough, so you’ll have to be open to condos.

$500k is the salary, not the housing budget

Oh yes, I know 😅

[Anonymous]

My advice is to buy a condo/Playa Vista townhouse and send your kids to private school. Don’t even try buying a house. However, there is a public elementary serving Playa Vista so that would be a nice & easy option (if that’s where you end up). Skip Westchester. There are lots of condos in century city/Westwood area. Westwood will have more homeless. These areas are not having their best days, sadly.

[Anonymous]

Something like this
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7100-Playa-Vista-Dr-APT-115-Playa-Vista-CA-90094/82874375_zpid/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about La Canada Flintridge? Would that be a crazy commute to Century City? The appeal in La Canada is the public schools. We wouldn’t have to worry about trying to find a private Catholic for the kids.

That would not be a great commute. I used to live in LCF. Hope you have at least $2M for a house there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. Any good parochial school recommendations around Playa Vista/Westchester area? Thanks!

Visitation in Westchester.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My advice is to buy a condo/Playa Vista townhouse and send your kids to private school. Don’t even try buying a house. However, there is a public elementary serving Playa Vista so that would be a nice & easy option (if that’s where you end up). Skip Westchester. There are lots of condos in century city/Westwood area. Westwood will have more homeless. These areas are not having their best days, sadly.

How’s Playa Vista holding up these days? Has it also gone downhill since the pandemic?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Something like this
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7100-Playa-Vista-Dr-APT-115-Playa-Vista-CA-90094/82874375_zpid/

This is exactly what we would be looking for.

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Anonymous wrote:My advice is to buy a condo/Playa Vista townhouse and send your kids to private school. Don’t even try buying a house. However, there is a public elementary serving Playa Vista so that would be a nice & easy option (if that’s where you end up). Skip Westchester. There are lots of condos in century city/Westwood area. Westwood will have more homeless. These areas are not having their best days, sadly.

How’s Playa Vista holding up these days? Has it also gone downhill since the pandemic?

Downhill in what way?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My advice is to buy a condo/Playa Vista townhouse and send your kids to private school. Don’t even try buying a house. However, there is a public elementary serving Playa Vista so that would be a nice & easy option (if that’s where you end up). Skip Westchester. There are lots of condos in century city/Westwood area. Westwood will have more homeless. These areas are not having their best days, sadly.

How’s Playa Vista holding up these days? Has it also gone downhill since the pandemic?

Downhill in what way?

Downhill as in permanent retail/restaurant closures, uptick in theft and burglaries, increase in homelessness that is on the rise in other LA neighborhoods.

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Anonymous wrote:My advice is to buy a condo/Playa Vista townhouse and send your kids to private school. Don’t even try buying a house. However, there is a public elementary serving Playa Vista so that would be a nice & easy option (if that’s where you end up). Skip Westchester. There are lots of condos in century city/Westwood area. Westwood will have more homeless. These areas are not having their best days, sadly.

How’s Playa Vista holding up these days? Has it also gone downhill since the pandemic?

Downhill in what way?

Downhill as in permanent retail/restaurant closures, uptick in theft and burglaries, increase in homelessness that is on the rise in other LA neighborhoods.

Good luck finding any neighborhood that hasn’t seen an uptick in crime, homelessness, and closures of business since the pandemic started.

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Anonymous wrote:My first choice would be Cheviot Hills, a charming neighborhood right next to Century City. I used to work in Century City and would drive through there to get to work and wish I lived there.

Also, I have friends who moved from Arlington to El Segundo and have been really happy with their neighborhood

Cheviot Hills is lovely but there's no store / grocery/ cafe etc for literally miles, so it's a 100% drive only neighborhood which can be depressing.

You don’t know what you are talking about. I live there and there is a Vons and Starbucks off National that is a ten minute walk. Ditto the Metro.

You are extremely rude. I lived there myself for 5 years, I know exactly what I'm talking about - a 10 minute walk is not close. I am happy to walk 20-30 minutes where I live now but in LA nobody walks 10 minutes to anything

NP. Not rude, matter of fact. Don’t take it so personally.

"you don't know what you're talking about" is ALWAYS rude unless you're a hick.

Clearly, you have a bias against Cheviot Hills and Culver City but your comments were erroneous. Do better.

No I like Cheviot Hills, just not Culver Shitty. Learn. To. Read.

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Anonymous wrote:My first choice would be Cheviot Hills, a charming neighborhood right next to Century City. I used to work in Century City and would drive through there to get to work and wish I lived there.

Also, I have friends who moved from Arlington to El Segundo and have been really happy with their neighborhood

Cheviot Hills is lovely but there's no store / grocery/ cafe etc for literally miles, so it's a 100% drive only neighborhood which can be depressing.

You don’t know what you are talking about. I live there and there is a Vons and Starbucks off National that is a ten minute walk. Ditto the Metro.

You are extremely rude. I lived there myself for 5 years, I know exactly what I'm talking about - a 10 minute walk is not close. I am happy to walk 20-30 minutes where I live now but in LA nobody walks 10 minutes to anything

NP. Not rude, matter of fact. Don’t take it so personally.

"you don't know what you're talking about" is ALWAYS rude unless you're a hick.

Clearly, you have a bias against Cheviot Hills and Culver City but your comments were erroneous. Do better.

No I like Cheviot Hills, just not Culver Shitty. Learn. To. Read.

Nice.

[Anonymous]

Brentwood

Culver City (specifically the triangle)

Westwood (neighborhood *just* East of UCLA specifically)

Century City in the neighborhood just West of the Century City Westfield (great pocket of adorable houses)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My advice is to buy a condo/Playa Vista townhouse and send your kids to private school. Don’t even try buying a house. However, there is a public elementary serving Playa Vista so that would be a nice & easy option (if that’s where you end up). Skip Westchester. There are lots of condos in century city/Westwood area. Westwood will have more homeless. These areas are not having their best days, sadly.

Is Playa Vista overrun with college kids?

[Anonymous]

What’s your budget op? Unfortunately, $3 million is the starting point for something decent, but not great, in areas like cheviot hills and westwood. Santa Monica is usually more expensive. Areas like west Chester and Culver City will be cheaper.