All imaginable services-higher education, healthcare, transportation-are available in abundance. Museums, performing arts, professional sports, boating, and beach recreation are among the world’s best. Rain only falls in the winter, and seldom at that. Warm sunny days, cool evenings, low morning clouds and fog, and sea breezes are the norm. That said, the area has some of the best weather in the world. But without extensive financial resources, these communities are all but inaccessible, and those who cannot afford them feel the full impact of the overcrowded landscape. Pasadena to the northeast has a marvelous “old California” feel, as do areas of Santa Monica and some of the beach communities. “L.A.” includes some of the nicer places to live in the world, such as Beverly Hills, Malibu, San Marino, and the seemingly endless beach communities that stretch south from Santa Monica toward Long Beach. That isn’t to say that everything is the same throughout the area. Flying into Los Angeles International for the first time, the view of the sprawling cityscape is stunning. The LA metro area extends north into the San Fernando Valley, including Burbank and Glendale in another large sprawling panorama, and extends south to the busy port of Long Beach. Surrounding a network of city cores, the sprawl of low buildings extends 80 miles on a near-perfect grid from the beach at Santa Monica west of downtown east towards San Bernardino.
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