CA has a shitty gov't that taxes the fuck outta everybody and strangles businesses to death, but it's still California lol. Don't think i could ever live anywhere else in the u.s. Florida has better taxes, but the humidity would melt me, even compared to the 6months of 115-120° we have in palm desert/palm springs.NV has better taxes & real estate, but no beach. I'd have to move to Vietnam or Thailand, or Greece.
just got back from los angeles (basically marina del rey is a second place i visit often/stay)
1. la traffic is mind numbing brutal
2. just so expensive....still blows my mind whenever i am there
3. no parking
4. income tax is brutal
5. people arent friendly - i am mr chipper/happy go lucky
I love LA, just to visit/short stays. setting up shop in la aint my thang
my take on living in LA
1. live there if you are an actor/in that industry and you have too. full time model, film producer
2. are mexican and east LA is home and you have a dodgers tattoo
3. are ballin pretty fucking hard and then you can isolate yourself - live in a posh area, enjoy it. tier 1 cities (LA, NYC, London, Signapore, Hong Kong etc etc) are not good to be even upper middle class. you gotta ball to enjoy those places. if you are middle class and not into the whole LA scene. san diego is much much better choice for the cali folk