My sister lives close to LA and this may explain why she seldom goes into town.She lives in Westlake area-its very nice.I now LOATHE big cities and have no more desire to live in one because of the problems shown.I used to live in the Wash DC area-and because of so many problems-moved out to the country in North Carolina.I now work at a plant that is 15 miles out of Greenville-in the middle of nowhere and LOVE it!When I lived in the apartment house building in the DC area was greeted by police cars at the building driveway-a bleeding dead black man laying in the driveway-another got shot in front of the building.The scaryest time was when someone was trying to break into my apartment while I was there---so I went to my beadroom got my 12Ga Mossberg shotgun-loaded a couple rounds of buckshot.Then racked the action right at the door as the creton was pounding on it-then got so quiet after hearing the perp run down the hallway!Then moved from there.