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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LA is a nightmare, just suburbia stretched out.
Many areas have only a few good highways to get into and out of. Despite this they are popular areas to live in. Evacuation orders cause huge traffic jams.
There is no metro. 
This is in someway an opportunity for city planners to rethink and create a better more functional city.
Don’t ask me about the school system, their education is a nightmare too.
One would think that the richest state in the richest country could do better.
Currently they are tackling homelessness by pretending it doesn’t exist even though that has not helped at all[/quote]

California is the wealthiest state, kind of.  They have 500 BILLION of debt.  That is the highest debt to income ratio of any state - 106%!
NY is the next most in debt state but no where close to California.[/quote]

CA swings wildly based on IPOs. For years CA has had billions in surplus. Interest rates going up and the banking issue in SV put a damper on the IPOs. Between reserves , being able to adjust the budget and new start ups recovering it’s fine. CA often ends higher than projected.

CA public education is excellent in some areas and crappy in others, like everywhere else. The public school in some areas of LA , not LA unified and the Bay Area , not San Jose Unified are better than your top public schools in the DMV. The UC system is the best in the nation. Berkeley, UCLA, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Irvine and Davis are light years better than other state flagships. Heck, the top Cal State schools are better than most state flagships. [/quote]

I don't buy this. I moved to one of those school districts in LA, not LAUSD, and we still chose private. Good in California is not at all good compared to other areas that do have good public schools. It's still good for California, but it's not actually good.[/quote]

Disagree. We were in the top cluster within MCPS and our Bay Area public school was 10x better. I’ve heard the same thing from friends who came from Santa Monica, and somewhere near Manhattan Beach though they didn’t have experience with MCPS or Fairfax. [/quote]

I came from suburban Chicago and the LA area schools were worse, definitely not 10x better. We were surprised what passed for good.[/quote]

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