(Working) and Living in L.A. California - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: RJSV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 23, 2025, 10:50:06 am
content: I thought it's better as a 'DODGY' than placing this as 'Jobs Wanted', due to the wistful musings, about some highlights in Southern California locations. So I'm mentioning the cities and locations, rather than directly a 'seeking position in xyz'.Santa Monica: A beautiful beach and a wharf or Pier having amusement park rides. Anybody on Forum today got stories, on living in or near there ?(in Santa Monica).Going east, into the coastal mountains, near some (famous) observatories (Fullerton and Pasadena): What's it like, the life-styles there ? We get a glimpse of some neighborhoods in movies, like 'Back to the Future' and I'm all for having weather that's good for an evening neighborhood block party.Yeah, I know or have heard about poor areas, too, like Compton. San Francisco and Sacramento areas have poor areas and charming local scenes too...It's just warmer down south, (and good for Hot Tub utilization.)I think it was a trip, doing business, in Santa Monica, that impressed me. Lady's wearing flowers in their hair, and all the warm, (romantic) evenings. I should have, maybe, become a CHEF, moving around the SoCal culinary scene.It's a huge, and complex region, there, but I just have wistful curiosity, what kinds of response this gets !(Maybe I could advertise, doing a Job Wanted: House and PET sitting gigs wanted, (in nice area).Oh, well...tomorrows another day. Thanks for reading, and give me your complements, on your Southern California history.- Rick B. EE living in Hawaii

author: jpanhalt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 23, 2025, 01:50:28 pm
content: QuoteMy family moved to LA, upon our father's return from the Pacific in late 1945. Fortunately, a considerably older brother already in LA w/ connections found a rental We lived there a couple of years and moved to East LA (Atlantic BLvd). After several more years we moved up the street to a new school system. My older brother stayed in California while I moved East never to return. When he retired, he moved to Hawaii for the weather, built a nice home outside Honolulu. and stayed for about 3 years. He eventually got fed up with being an unwanted minority and moved back to California in the central valley. It's hot, dry, and nice. You can avoid ever having to mow grass. Snakes like that area, but are not too bothersome in highly populated areas. He later moved to the Palm Springs area. It's a nice area and is probably a little more affordable than the coastal areas. Swimming pools are more common than garages. Amenities are fewer, and travel there is more expensive than to the coastal area. My brother died earlier this year, and his home in Rancho Mirage will be sold by his estate.If you want a coastal area, I have a relative in the Huntington/Newport beach area, and he likes it. There also La Jolla where an uncle lived until he got homesick and moved back to OK.

author: David Hess
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 24, 2025, 01:55:18 pm
content: Starting in the late 1970s, I lived in La Palma, Placentia, Anaheim, Orange, and Westminster at various times, while going to school in Pomona and working in Anaheim, Fullerton, Los Angeles, and Covina. I left after 2001 when the politics and other things became intolerable, including getting to witness election fraud first hand. My friends in Yorba Linda left around 2020 when crime began to greatly increase there.I visited a few times since then and it was always worse.The things I miss are the weather, beaches, Knott's, the high desert, and Wing's Chinese restaurant.

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 24, 2025, 07:50:38 pm
content: One of the attractions (to me, anyhow) of the Venice boardwalk:This is the Jimi Hendrix-like guy with the Pignose amp in his backpack on skates. Very well known thereabouts.Taken in the 19-ought-70s (yes, I was there!).

author: jpanhalt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 24, 2025, 08:33:30 pm
content: That picture is from 1979. Those are all old hags by now. Enjoy.Here's a more recent picture cleaned up for tourists:

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 24, 2025, 08:39:45 pm
content: Quote from: jpanhalt on August 24, 2025, 08:33:30 pmAckshooly earlier than that, more like 1973.Yep, all old hags (and grumpy old men) now.

author: RJSV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 25, 2025, 06:51:49 pm
content: (Just a random reply, for David Hess):Started thinking about crime worries, in the SF / and Oakland region;when I came across some notes, in my personal LOG.4/17/2025. Local newspaper summarizing that:'Oakland has 6 investigators, but meanwhile homicides are soaring...supposed to be 25 when crime unit is fully staffed'.Now I've considered myself to be fairly liberal-middle. But, when the concerns about crime are expressed, folks start with the name-calling!Report sez it right there, that understaffed crime unit exists.Heck, I'm the kind of person that's perfectly comfortable in Berkeley...grew up spending lots of time there.