I despise pretty much everything within a hundred mile radius of Los Angeles, true. But I hate different areas for different sets of reasons. In Orange County, the big nasties are the smog, the sprawl, the traffic, and the unbearable snootiness of the obscenely wealthy. Since Matt's parents live just barely north of Newport Beach, the obscene wealth is inescapable. Now, I have no problem with money.
Money is a pleasant thing to have.
It makes life much less stressful. What tweaks my honorary penis is conspicuous consumption. The blatant showing-off of monetary wealth. Money without class. And I mean REAL class, not the purchased kind.