As a current LA resident and a former San Diego resident, I find it funny that people blame the city for how un-friendly neighbors and neighborhoods are. Does your neighbor consider YOU friendly ?
Isn’t it the people that make the difference. For a decade we lived in older established neighborhoods in San Diego and always found neighbors that were friendly, that I would trust leaving my kids with and that I would invite in to my home. I didn’t find it that much different than the areas in the midwest I grew up in, with one exception … no way we would let our kids roam the streets and explore into the canyons like we roamed and explored the woods where I grew up.
We currently live in West LA/Westwood in a very dense urban area, with more Bentleys and platic surgeons per capita than anywhere on earth, but even in this plastic-barbie-Luxury-car-driving-vain-look-at-me Los Angeles area we have found neighbors and families that are friendly, inviting and other children that our kids can play with. As in San Diego, most of these people came from somewhere else … many from the midwest
There are plenty of nice folks/neighbors in So Cal.
The grass may appear greener in Mayberry, USA, but is it really ?
