The City of Angels Tinseltown, the Entertainment Capital of the World, Los Angeles has a lot of
names but most just call it la i call it my hometown i was born and raised in a southern
section of los angeles county called the south bay i left about 11 years ago for a lot of the
reasons on this list i still miss los angeles for a few of the other reasons that are on this list
los angeles and really most of california has been seeing an outward migration of long-time
residents like myself from 2020 to 2021 they lost 1.3 percent of their population it's estimated at
the end of 2022 they will have lost at least another 2 percent only a few times in this
city's history have they lost population and i couldn't find any back-to-back years that they
actually ran a negative that being said there are still people moving to los angeles even though
it's losing a lot of the long-time residents los angeles is still one of the most moved to major
cities if you're one of those people thinking about moving to los angeles this video is going
to show you some things you should know both good and bad got it get it good let's take a look
number 10 the weather if you're an adult and you don't know that the weather in los angeles
is great you're probably 20 and living in the amish community everybody knows
the weather in southern california is great the only other major city that probably has
better weather than los angeles would be san diego now that's how most people feel about it you also
got people like myself where i think it's way too hot but the reality of the weather in los angeles
is there's weeks at a time where the weather is so pleasant you start to think that the
matrix is real and we're all just living in a simulation the average high during the summer
is in the low 80s that's almost all the time with the occasional 90 and 100 degrees but on average
the temperature during the summer months is in the low 80s even in the coldest months it almost never
goes below 50. the record low for downtown los angeles in its history is 28 degrees like i said
the weather in los angeles is so pleasant you really think you're in a simulation sometimes
number nine know your neighborhoods if you decide you want to move to los angeles there's a lot of
things you need to keep in mind the crime rate is typical of a very large city los angeles is
huge and los angeles city downtown area the crime rate is 22 percent above the national
average their violent crime rate is 86 percent above the national average now if you're living
in some small town in like iowa or wisconsin you'd probably just gasp at those numbers the reality is
los angeles most of it at least is a very safe place 22 percent above the national average is
not bad when you look at places like detroit where it's 130 above the national average and they have
a violent crime rate that's 462 percent above the national average st louis 234 percent above the
national average their violent crime rate is 420 above the national average and i know someone's
going to ask because everyone thinks that chicago is just the absolute worst place in the world but
the city itself on average their total crime rate is 67 percent above the national average
and violent crime rate is 143 percent above the national average so really los angeles overall
isn't that bad that being said they got some pretty downright scary neighborhoods let me get
this out of the way first because there's always a comment about it right now the total crime rate
in compton california is 51 above the national average violent crime rate is 204 percent above
the national average not nearly as bad as detroit and st louis you have some of the neighborhoods
around watts in los angeles that are like 80 percent above the national average with a violent
crime rate that's 305 percent above the national average so there's a lot of places in los angeles
that are pretty bad but they're not nearly as bad as some of the other places in the united states
here's a quick rule of thumb from someone that grew up there the closer you stay by the beach
the safer it's gonna be now nothing's perfect but they're definitely safer neighborhoods and towns
if you look at the map of la county and go down to the south side you find long beach most of
long beach is really nice if you go inland a mile or two past signal hill you start running
into some areas you don't need to be at moving up a little bit you get into the peninsula area
which is rolling hills rolling hills estates rancho palos verdes that type area those are
really nice very expensive and behind that you have wilmington not so great along with lamida
not as bad as wilmington but not great either you head on up to torrance which is nice and then you
have carson behind it not so nice work your way up to redondo with hermosa on the beach there right
behind that you got el camino village in lawndale not so great garden is back there too again not so
great manhattan beach is nice very expensive but they got hawthorne behind them el segundo's nice
has lennox behind it lennox is horrible then you hit marina del rey santa monica and venice area
and behind that you got some really bad places if you go all the way up to malibu behind that you
got the hills and calabasas and the kardashians having the kardashians living behind you that's
horrible number eight the outdoors whenever people are moving to los angeles the first thing they're
thinking about is going to the beach and a lot of people do a lot of things down the beach that
would be considered outdoor activities there's a lot to do there volleyball swimming surfing skim
boarding whatever you want to do down on the coast there's a lot to do but a lot of people
not from the area don't realize you have a lot of places to go hiking right in los angeles that are
pretty decent you have the santa monica mountains you have griffith park by the way it is griffith
like andy griffith not griffin i've heard so many people from mount town call it griffin park it's
not it's up there by the zoo it's really nice then back down on the south side you have the palos
verdes peninsula which has some nice hiking trails i've been up there mountain biking too many times
to count obviously the beach is king for outdoor activities in los angeles county but the parks
are pretty cool too number seven creative jobs one of the largest industries in the los angeles area
is the film industry it's not just people running cameras and acting there's set designers there's
computer programmers that do cgi los angeles time and time again has ranked as the best place
for creatives to work you have the tech people in san francisco new york has all the finance
people and stock market types the creatives have a lot of opportunities in los angeles number six the
cost of living the price you pay for the privilege of living in los angeles is another thing you
should be well aware of besides the standard cost living being 51 above the national average you're
in a state that has the highest state income tax in the nation some of the highest dmv fees and is
considered one of the worst and most expensive states to start a business they have one of the
highest rates for the average car insurance and are ranked fourth in the nation for the highest
traffic ticket price in a strange twist though they're ranked 44th in the nation for utility
costs you don't pay that much it's kind of amazing the absolute worst in the nation for utilities
is wyoming with 738 for energy costs on average across the board alaska's 625 north dakota 611
connecticut's 611 massachusetts 577 and then way down at 44th you have california with 430
dollars a month on average just so you know the absolute cheapest is new mexico with 377 dollars
a month i'm hesitant about bringing up any numbers when it comes to utilities because whenever i say
the average you get a flood of people telling you that's totally false my average is like 720 maybe
stop growing weed in your basement i don't know sounds like you're a little above average number
five you don't see movie stars everywhere i don't know how many times growing up in los angeles i'd
run into someone from iowa ohio georgia or west virginia and they've asked me where can i see
movie stars they always used to ask me that here's the thing you don't especially nowadays there's
a lot of weirdos and those type of people really don't hang out in the general populace around los
angeles so it's not like you can go to hollywood boulevard and check out all that tourist stuff
and there's gonna be movie stars there it just doesn't happen in my experience in los angeles
where i've seen the most celebrities is on the frickin freeway i've been on the 405 freeway
turned to my left and there's kobe bryant before i saw jack black on the freeway and i think it
was ben stiller sitting with him and i've seen jay leno a couple times in traffic so if you're coming
out from the midwest or whatever just keep in mind the streets aren't paved in gold with celebrities
everywhere it's just not realistic number four the traffic now the traffic there's a lot that
goes into this the suckage level of los angeles traffic is legendary that's probably why you see
a lot of celebrities in traffic because you're all sitting there looking to see what the person next
to you is doing because you've been standing still for five minutes at a time move 100 yards sit and
park for five more minutes it's not unusual to put your car in park on the freeway in los angeles now
here's the thing los angeles is a very car centric city their public transportation's
really not something most people get involved in probably because it sucks on top of that the la
metro area is so spread out it is definitely not built up unless you're like downtown l.a or on
the west side most of the city is just laid out flat and it's huge nothing is walkable los angeles
always shows up in the top 10 least walkable cities so the public transportation sucks and
it's not a walkable city so you're gonna need a car that's just a fact or a big budget for ubers
number three the entertainment now yeah like we said it's known as the entertainment capital of
the world that really has to do with the movie television industry but it's so much more than
that think of all the amusement parks in and around los angeles county magic about knott's
berry farm disneyland california adventure universal pacific park on the santa monica
pier is nice if you're into sports this is one of the best cities in the country for that
i mean we have every single major sport in some cases we have two the rams and the chargers play
at the same place the clippers and the lakers play at the staples center which is now the crypto.com
arena the kings play at the crypto.com arena and then down the road in anaheim which isn't too far
from l.a county you got the ducks play down there along with the california angels and then back up
in la you have the dodgers of course la has two major league soccer teams some of the world's
best art galleries and museums comedy clubs and more music venues than i could list in this video
you also have venice speech i wouldn't recommend anyone go there i mean it's gotten better in the
last year or two but venice beach has never been a good place it's nice for tourist stuff but
it's dirty it's gross and in some cases it could be dangerous now any place can be dangerous but
venice beach if you don't know about the place you're probably not expecting it number two the
cost of housing the median listing price in los angeles for a home is 496 000 that's 169 percent
above the national average but as we all know median is really unrealistic realistically even
in the bad neighborhoods you're looking at paying seven hundred thousand dollars for a home i grew
up in a middle class neighborhood yeah i'd say middle class upper middle class somewhere in that
area i wasn't living behind the gates or anything like that and any butlers or mercedes anything of
that nature but my neighborhood right now it is hard to find a home that is under a million
dollars and in los angeles that neighborhood's considered middle of the road here's a screen
grab from a zillow map this is an area not too far from where i grew up it's definitely not the best
neighborhood to be living in look at the prices anything under 700 000 on this map right here
is a condo or a town home they have million dollar homes in a neighborhood that i probably wouldn't
want to live in you have a lot of different places in the la area where if you're not willing to
spend five million dollars on a home you might as well just give up on that neighborhood or suburb
or whatever take one of the richest neighborhoods in los angeles beverly hills most homes are
between 9 and 40 million dollars they have one home that's going for 100 million dollars 11
bedrooms 16 baths it has tennis courts a theater two swimming pools well actually one swimming pool
and a hot tub so big that most people would probably assume it's just a second pool
all right before we get to number one don't forget we have another channel called on this day
there's a link down below alright on to number one and number one skid row skid row is straight up
depressing this is one of the worst situations when it comes to the homeless explosion in the
country i would argue this is the absolute worst there's the tenderloin in san francisco which we
just talked about on another video skid row is so much worse it honestly is so bad it makes
some of the worst parts of tijuana look kind of inviting it's disgusting and this didn't just
blow up because the pandemic this has been like this probably got a little bit worse the tenth
thing like i said in the san francisco video it's kind of new it's only been around since
2010 2011 before that people just crash out on the sidewalk with cardboard or whatever they could get
now they get a hold of tents and you have these tent villages on the side of the road and the one
in skid row it's packed it's wall-to-wall tents it's really one of the saddest things you will
probably ever see it's bad enough when you own a house that basically has no property and your
neighbors like right on top you but when you live in a tent and the street is so crowded you can't
even walk between the tents in some cases now if you are thinking about moving to los angeles this
is the thing you need to know about skid row you need to avoid it at all costs figure out where
it is on the map and make sure you never go there definitely don't go there at night you gotta drive
through there during the day that's one thing but if for some reason you get off the freeway near
this area at night ask your navigation system how to get out of there and then start praying
a little bit everyone talks about how bad the tenderloin is in san francisco that's the one you
always hear about this is so much worse skid row was a normal neighborhood through the 1940s in the
1950s it became a place where alcoholics and other people that were down on their luck could get a
meal and a bed there was all kinds of shelters and things like that there's been different programs
to try and fix skid row but it has never gotten better skid row was established by city officials
in 1976 as an unofficial contaminated zone where shelters and services for homeless people would
be tolerated now this is my favorite story about skid row during the 1970s two catholic workers
catherine morris a former nun and her husband jeff dietrich founded hippie kitchen in the back of a
van over 40 years later as of march 2019 they were still active in the neighborhood at age 84 and 72.
in 2005 hospitals and law enforcement agencies were discovered to be dumping homeless people in
skid row yeah they'd pick them up in other parts of the city and just drop them off there classy
all right that's today's video hope you guys enjoyed it hope you got some
information out of it now go out have a productive day and be nice to each other