hey welcome back everyone it's time to get back to my Los Angeles list series
today we're going to venture into the reasons why you shouldn't moved LA I
mean we kind of already did that with my worst neighborhoods in LA video
sadly bad neighborhoods are give me on why you shouldn't move to any major city
but LA like you learned in that video they have some bad ones today we're
gonna get a little deeper into the reasons why LA might not be for
everybody. I mean it might be paradise to you but for some people it could be a
living hell this video is about things you should
consider before moving to LA. So here's my top 10 reasons not to move to Los
Angeles California. Number 10 nobody's just a waiter
nobody is just a waiter or waitress they're all waiting for their big break
now this is a stereotype but it's real you'll be shocked how many times you
actually hear some version of this story it never seems to be like anyone has
this job just to have a job everyone's answered to this question What do you do?
is I'm an actor I'm a musician I'm a writer then they follow that up with I'm
only working here at Starbucks or IHOP till I get my big break now like I said
this is a stereotype but you will be surprised how many times you hear some
version of the story and sometimes they might even tell you a little bit more
they'll tell you they didn't want to wait tables and that's why they started
stripping or doing fetish porn and now they're trying to get their career back
on track by serving drinks. Hollywood brings out the worst in people
and yes in case you don't know Hollywood is part of LA. Number nine rent as bad
and home prices are twisted rent is bad everywhere and I get it home prices have
jumped for the average American to an unattainable level in most major cities
Los Angeles has gotten really bad five hundred and sixty thousand dollars is
the average home price in Los Angeles County if you look at the average home
price in Los Angeles and compared to San Francisco and San Jose it doesn't look
that bad but when you take into account how many low-income and depressed
neighborhoods LA has you start to understand it if you want to live in a
better neighborhood you're looking at upwards of seven hundred thousand now of
course everyone has a different opinion on what
good neighborhood is I grew up in the Torrance Redondo area and see that as a
good place while people in Palos Verdes which is right next to them up on a
hillside they would never think of living in Torrance or Redondo bullies
most of them I've heard a couple actually say that to me I would never
live down there the closer you get to the beach rent gets crazy and in the
area I grew up in the closer you get to the beach the rent starts getting nuts
and that's within a mile or so from the beach and if you get within a half a
mile of the ocean it gets harder and harder to own a home for under million
dollars Idaho starts looking pretty good about this time number 8 earthquakes
earthquakes are real and they're really scary maybe it does take one of the
giant ones to scare the locals but that happens if you're not from an earthquake
zone and you feel one for the first time you will freak out
now I was at Fort Ord California when the San Francisco Bay one happened 89 it
was called the Loma Prieta earthquake it was a big one and I was even scared the
other soldiers around me from places like Texas and Iowa and Florida and
stuff like that they were beyond scared they were shaking Ford was about an hour
and a half south of the epicenter it's now a college that's why I say was I saw
three story cement barracks sway back and forth I could visually see them move
that's how unnerving it was windows were breaking it was bad soldiers got their
field equipment after the earthquake and went and slept in the woods for a couple
of nights so my warning to you is if you've never
been in an earthquake and you experienced your first one and you
probably will if you're in LA for a couple years be prepared it is scary
you might wet your pants
number seven traffic is bad but mind blowing in the rain it almost never
rains in LA and for the assclown about to post some comment and stat about the
rain in LA stop I'm sure you could find some stat
about Raymond LA being as bad as any other place to that person
congratulations we are all proud of you for your ability to find one offs on the
Internet now back to LA drivers if you get on the
freeway and it starts to rain the average LA native treats it like it's
starting to rain oil and they're about to slide off the freeway into one of
those bad neighborhoods I talked about in my other LA video traffic will slow
down to a crawl as the residents of Southern California white-knuckle at
home in the rain if you happen to look over in the 2 mile an hour traffic and
see someone losing their mind yelling what is happening what is happening what
is happening there from a place that gets bad weather occasionally and don't
know why the people of LA have come to a screeching halt on the freeway because
it started to sprinkle
number six say goodbye to really fresh produce and
Christmas trees under sixty bucks you would think that you could get great
produce everywhere in LA I mean after all California is mostly farmland in the
center of the state now if you thought that you're partially wrong you can you
just need to know where to go in your neighborhood
I hate chain supermarkets in general but LA supermarkets are the worst if you had
a better experience at a grocery store in LA than I've ever had then great
congratulations I had a friend in high school that worked produce at Lucky's
grocery store for about ten years Lucky's is no longer in existence it was
bought out by Albertsons years ago when he left and moved Oregon I saw him and
he said it was because he'd like to take pride in the work that he does and he
found it impossible to do it there as far as Christmas trees go I've only
bought them in Los Angeles in Oregon and because we only have palm trees in LA
what cost 20 bucks in Oregon for Christmas tree is about a-huntin 40 in
LA Merry Christmas I know that's a weird one but that one's always bugged me
number five status no matter how you shake it or how
much you deny it la is all about status people worry more
about how they look and what they own then how they feel this is just how it
is in LA that is one of the most refreshing things I've ever experienced
when I go to other states or cities people are people even people from crap
neighborhoods in LA try and make it sound classy there are people in LA
trying to be the next Kardashians like that's something you want to strive to
be it's just weird you're not from LA you're gonna see it
and I promise you 90% of you are gonna be grossed out
number four crimes and neighborhoods now we talked about neighborhoods in length
on my last la video I will leave a link below in case you're under informed on
the easiest place to get robbed and murdered in la la isn't as bad as say
Chicago or Detroit but it has some areas that you should truly stay clear up one
thing about la car theft is always in fashion they also have home invasion
robberies like on a weekly basis I mean a handful of them every week some places
in LA it's hard to get a cop to even come investigate a crime unless you have
a body attached to it now please if your car gets stolen don't go kill someone
and put them where your car was so the cops will show up just admit it your
car's gone let it go get another one but yeah unless you have a body a lot of
neighborhoods in Los Angeles the police don't even show up to investigate it
they just kind of take a report and over the phone and tell you have a nice day
and that's the end of it kind of sad
number three it's not Cali now this is the quickest one on the list and it's
easy don't call it Cali just don't it's California nothing says I'm not from
California like calling it Cali SoCal is somewhat acceptable just remember that
number two everything is more expensive this is another easy one
paradise is expensive ask Adam and Eve they got evicted over at Apple in LA
rent and home prices are just the tip of the overpriced iceberg car insurance is
not car registration is stupid traffic tickets are obscene food gas utilities
are some of the highest in the country it even costs a hundred bucks for this
weed pipe that looks like a branch and no that's not a kazoo from Lord of the
Rings it's a pipe you put your weed in it my friends from LA say the same thing
you got to pay to stay and it's the truth you pay through the nose
and number one the beach gets old quick the beach is why most people will move
to LA if you've never been you've probably built up an image of what life
on the west coast is like from what you've seen on TV and in movies it's an
illusion I grew up never living further than one mile from the Pacific Ocean
from age 1 to 19 I lived in Southern California always within a mile of the
ocean while I was in my first four years the military I lived in Monterey less
than a mile from the beach that's in central California it really doesn't
count because that's cold water and I can tell you this it gets old now if
you're in high school you'll go to the beach a bunch usually from about June
15th ish to about the middle of August you see your friends you make plans you
interact with the opposite sex you have a lot of hookups and a lot of fun
everyone smells like cocoa butter and you party after August the beach is a
lonely place you maybe hit the beach two or three times the rest of the year
that's most people unless you're a hardcore surfer you're there all the
time and you're still alone you see a couple friends but no girls after you
get out of high school it's never the same friends fade away you have a job so
you stopped by a handful of times during the summer maybe see a friend or two as
you get older the beach is right there the same place it's always been it just
seems further away now what I'm saying is you won't go half as much as you
imagine as always you have those one-offs that maybe have some money
trust fun or whatever and they're gonna go down to the beach and they're gonna
be there every single weekend whatever quit typing I don't want to hear about
it those people are lucky but for the rest of the 99.9% of us that's exactly
how it's gonna happen you're gonna move there you're gonna take a tech job or
something like that in Santa Monica you're gonna be living a Southern
California Dream the first couple weeks you get there you're gonna go to the
beach and stuff like that if it's summer and then it gets further and further
away like I said it's really a strange thing the beach is not all it's cracked
up to be and it's expensive when you go down there parking food whatever parking
is through the roof in most Beach cities so
definitely if you're not parking out a meter make sure you see how much they're
charging at that lot don't just drive in and hope it's normal well that's it
that's my video on the top ten reasons you might not want to move to Los
Angeles keep in mind this isn't everyone some people love it some people might
hate it food for thought before you make the
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