The best year around weather in the country, but a
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4/16/2009
Los Angeles has what I consider the nicest year around weather in the country. Granted I came from the Pacific North West where the weather is often cold and overcast, so my opinion is a little colored. If you like the sun and almost year around warm weather without the threat of hurricanes or the dry super heat of the desert, LA is the place to live. In the winter it rarely ever drops below 60. It seems like February, March, and April are the coldest months when it on very rare occasions hits 50. In the summer the heat is moderated by coastal winds, so on a 100 day in the San Fernando Valley, it feels like 80 in the Wilshire District.
Los Angeles' near perfect weather provides the setting for the glamorous lifestyle LA is known for. Whether it's shopping on trendy Melrose, clubbing in Hollywood, dinner at a posh new restaurant, or simply spending the day at Venice Beach, one can always find something to do in LA.
But of course all of the aforementioned comes at a price, quite literally. With on of the highest costs of living in the nation, living the LA life is extremely expensive. Middle class Angelenos can increasingly be found living in some pretty unsavory immigrant neighborhoods, or in houses and apartments that haven't been updated in over 40 years. This forces many LA residence to spend upwards of 2/3 of their salary on housing in order to live in a semi-safe neighborhood. At the end of the month little is left to be spent on the town.
The growing Latin American based gang activity in the city has made parts of LA uninhabitable by the average middle class. Most of South and East LA have all but been abandoned by the middle class as they move closer to the city center gentrifying East Hollywood and the southern part of Wilshire Center and Koreatown.
Bp | Los Angeles, CA