Where's the grass, trees, and suburbs in LA?

[BOORGONG]

Originally Posted by Jude24

You can get it in little baggies from a guy down the street.

Yup. Up some guy's nose.

[AnthonyJ34]

Originally Posted by Hapa1

South Pasadena is the same way, established older neighborhoods with lots of mature shade trees and a midwestern feel. They film a lot there too for the same reason, and it’s funny when the setting is supposed to be Indiana and they accidentally get a palm tree in the shot.

The original Halloween slasher movie was filmed primarily in South Pasadena but was called “Haddenfield, Illinois,” in the movie.

As to So. Cal: I was born and raised there (in Cerritos) and I dislike how developed and urban is the entire LA Basin. It’s basically a giant concrete/asphalt jungle; very little open space and nature left anywhere from the beaches to the mountains. Just an endless array of housing developments, freeways, streets, and traffic. So. Cal has much to offer, but in my opinion, it’s severely lacking in natural/scenic appeal. The mountains and beaches are nice, but everything else has been paved over or built on.

I spent several months at a time living in Portland, Oregon, Kelso, Washington, and Chattanooga, Tennessee, over the last few years, and it was like living in a scenic Eden compared to living in So. Cal. It was refreshing being around such pristine landscapes: all the forests and the open grasslands and natural rivers (and not those hideous concrete river channels like in LA — yuck!).