Re: Moving to LA end of July - Advice Needed PLEASE
 

Will your husband be commuting to LA? as his company is based there?
If you can, try and live just on the outskirts. I love LA but the traffic!! (it makes the M25 look like a walk in the park:ohmy:)
six lanes, gridlocked both sides all the time:huh:
for ideas and areas you could try city -data forum, that has a wealth of info there. (as I have discovered)
good luck with the move:)

Re: Moving to LA end of July - Advice Needed PLEASE
 

I can still get through LA traffic faster than I could ever get into Leeds on a work day morning, and drivers are much less aggresive. I find driving in LA is fairly laid back, the volume of cars still amazes me, but unless you are Downtown its not gridlocked all the time, it's busy all the time but that is very different.

Re: Moving to LA end of July - Advice Needed PLEASE
 

six lanes, gridlocked both sides all the time

Another ill-informed post by this member.

Re: Moving to LA end of July - Advice Needed PLEASE
 

I'm telling ya...skip LA all together and move to San Diego, always room for a few more brits here...

(so long as you aint welsh, scottish or irish..:)

Re: Moving to LA end of July - Advice Needed PLEASE
 

Oooh, has he rubbed you up the wrong way.

I thought you meant me for a moment, I only saw the quote and the last line:o

Re: Moving to LA end of July - Advice Needed PLEASE
 

:eek: sorry :lol:

Re: Moving to LA end of July - Advice Needed PLEASE
 

It's probably true in some other posts, I'm fairly confident on my line here though.

Re: Moving to LA end of July - Advice Needed PLEASE
 

when ever im wrong (as im sure we can always be)
Im the first to say, 'my bad' or 'sorry' or 'oops i was wrong' :)

Re: Moving to LA end of July - Advice Needed PLEASE
 

As someone has said above, LA is huge sprawling city with many sub-cities interconnect with each other. While LA has its fine share of nice and swank neighborhood (e.g. Rancho Palo Verdes, West Hollywood, Beverly Hill, Santa Monica, Malibu, Manhattan/Hermosa Beach,Marina Del Rey, Pasadena, San Marino, Arcadia....), it also has many poor, dicey, crime-ridden areas (e.g. basically the entire Downtown and South LA except for Little Tokyo and Bunker Hill area , cities like Inglewood, Compton, Lincoln Heights, East LA, Watts, El Monte, Baldwin Park, Wilmington, Pico Rivera, Hawaiian Garden and manymany others)and unfortunately the latter seems to cover a larger area than the former. Even within a city, for example Long Beach, certain section of the area are very ghetto and infested with all kind of gangbangers and some area are glamorous like what you are seeing in the Hollywood movie.