Same thing hit me when I started spending some time in the LA suburbs, everyone was so dang friendly it caught me off guard. I'm ready for the scam line to come, but it just never did. Once you spend more time in a city/culture, the more you find the good along with the warts.
Haha, completely agree. I have always heard stories about Los Angeles and I vowed to never live or even visit Cali(the Niners had a lot to do with that).
Welp, after several years of living off and on there(mostly SoCal), I really fell for the place. LA is awesome and most of the people are just like those back at home in Texas, minus the accents and all. I don't get involved with the states politics and I imagine that helps me enjoy this beautiful state quite a bit more
The traffic is about the same as Houston but I don't hate sitting on the roads here in LA near as much, at least you get to see the ocean or smell the salty air while doing so
, might even see a celebrity next to ya(saw Vin Diesel once on the 110). Traffic in Houston is terrible, see nothing but flat land and you are consistently baking on the pavement while crawling through traffic. Oh, there are numerous shortcuts here to avoid the 101, 405, I5, etc. In Houston, you don't have that option in most cases which makes traffic more of a headache.
I love where I grew up in Texas and my heritage, but LA offers so much more to do and see