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Originally Posted by EastwardBound
No surprise, really. LA's has also struggled for years now that it's over a quarter illegal, having really fallen from grace, with failing schools and falling wages. It's a real shame what has happened and I'm thankful I don't have to live there, with a rich elite living well and the poverty stricken others working to support them. Also, what a shame the middle class has been pushed out into the desert.
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I visit Los Angeles frequently, but would never live there.
Interesting city to explore for a few days. I stay at motels in Orange County for a few days when I visit and take the Metrolink up or Blue Line from Long Beach.
It is a terribly run city though. A city can't function well with a huge poverty class, a tiny middle-class and a small elite.
To be fair, many cities in the decade due to the unions will likely be in a similar position though with extremely high debt and pension expenses that pretty much either put the cities in a position that they either have to a tremendous tax increase that would tax a majority of residents out or huge services reductions to the level of cities in the third-world countries have.