I generally avoid the city. The South Bay, with the resurgence of the space industry and many start ups, remains in better shape.
[Update late morning]
LA 2025: Welcome to America’s future.
I hope not.
I generally avoid the city. The South Bay, with the resurgence of the space industry and many start ups, remains in better shape.
[Update late morning]
LA 2025: Welcome to America’s future.
I hope not.
I guess it’s what you’re most comfortable with. I grew up in the little piece of WLA hard up against Santa Monica Airport – their beacon would light up my bedroom at night. Eventually the extended family moved to the valley (west of Sepulveda, south of Ventura) and when I returned from the US Air Force I bought a house in Santa Clarita.
Then I left in 2003.
Since then, I’ve been back to LA fewer than a dozen times. Mostly weddings and funerals. I used to try and hit up some of the places I enjoyed from my younger days – but the last two times I returned I didn’t leave the Valley at all. No reason to, no desire to. The time before, I flew into San Diego for a wedding in Dana Point and drove up to the Valley to visit a homebound aunt… What a horrible idea, the weekend traffic was horrible on the 405.
I moved to CA from MI just before Thanksgiving 1974. Jerry Brown had just succeeded Ronald Reagan as Governor and was about to start the first of what would ultimately be four terms in that office. In retrospect, I can see I “bought at the top of the market.” The state has gone nowhere but downhill ever since.
The Democrats, though, have blighted their escutcheon to such an extent that I now entertain some cautious optimism that the state might be poised for a change of management and some degree of recovery. We shall see.
From the 2832 Edition of the World FactBook:
The Escutcheon Blight triggered the great California migration and ideology famine that started in the latter half of the 20th Century and carried forward into the first quarter of the 21st Century…
It would require a change in the Democrat party, a major change. Democrats have become an ideological monoculture of extreme left wing views. The identity they created for themselves doesn’t allow for voting for a different party because that would be like becoming a Satanist, which ironically, is more acceptable to Democrats than being a Republican.
Maybe a third party has a chance but it is likely they wont change until they are tired of totalitarianism.