Is this true about Los Angeles? (school, tax, living)

[buffyuna]

Originally Posted by Bubble99

I'm sorry are you looking for a apartment to buy or rent?

Rent is $2,000 to $3,000 a month should get you two bedroom, one bathroom, kitchen.

A $3,000 to $4,000 should get you three bedroom, one bathroom, kitchen.

You may get one for under $2,000 a month rent being one bedroom, one bathroom, kitchen.

I'm probably going to rent for a couple more years but I just wanted to see how much it would cost to buy in LA compared to my hometown which has similar renting prices.

[highlanderfil]

Originally Posted by Bubble99

Me or Hollywood? Because Hollywood has picture LA has hell hole of gang shooting all the time and drive by shootings all the time and LA a hell hole city. A city full of gangs.

You.

[afropack-man]

Originally Posted by buffyuna

I'm probably going to rent for a couple more years but I just wanted to see how much it would cost to buy in LA compared to my hometown which has similar renting prices.

What city are you from?

[Freddy K]

Originally Posted by Bubble99

Looking at Google Los Angeles unemployment rate is at %7.5 So that may explain large Homeless population.


I thought I read here that a lot people where leaving Los Angeles because a lack of jobs and housing cost is really high now in LA.

When small house like this cost $600,000
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/53/10...e88fb3.jpg?v=0

Where price to buy house now is at $600,000 for small home.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...a1ba5a6d8e.jpg

La is at 4.9 unemployment

[Freddy K]

Originally Posted by Bubble99

Homeless and people coming up to you and asking you for money may be problem in LA and may be more so than most cities in the US.

But things like gangs, shootings and people getting shot is more a really big concern in LA. Like to get stats on how many people get shot in day in LA.

In the 90's there where places cops would not go with out at least 4 back up units or more.

I never worry about gangs and gettng shot.
thats crazy

[Bubble99]

Originally Posted by Freddy K

La is at 4.9 unemployment

Here is new data Unemployment rates for 2015 and 2016.

http://www.bls.gov/regions/west/summ...losangeles.pdf

United States 2015 Unemployment 5.5 and 2016 Unemployment ,5.1
Los Angeles area 2015 Unemployment 6.3, and 2016 Unemployment 5.0
Los Angeles Co. 2015 Unemployment 6.9.and 2016 Unemployment 5.2
Orange Co. 2015 Unemployment 4.5, and2016 Unemployment 4.4



So it looks like Unemployment is really going down every year now. And is NOT high like it was before.


Best and worse cities in US of Unemployment

June 2016.Cities with highest and lowest Unemployment


LA is rank 180 out of 387
Unemployment Rates for Metropolitan Areas


Sioux Falls, SD Metropolitan Statistical Area 2.3
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area 5.0


Stockton-Lodi, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area 8.3
El Centro, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area 23.7

[Bubble99]

Originally Posted by Freddy K

I never worry about gangs and gettng shot.
thats crazy

What you live in some rich community? Stay away from most areas of LA?

[7 Wishes]

Originally Posted by Bubble99

Also I hear there not many people from The Bahamas, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Haiti in Los Angeles. Why is that? Most them moved to Florida?

Pure geography, Miami is virtually in their backyard to move to and NYC (I have only been to LA 3 times in my 48 year life but have lived in/near NYC for all but 4 of them so I can tell you we have large populations here) is still a lot closer than L.A.

But it works in reverse too. I visited relatives in L.A. 30 years ago for the summer as a HS graduation present and saw a lot of Mexicans on the streets/signs of Mexican culture (as simple as even the fact that Taco Bell was already prevalent there and didn't exist by me) but they were non-existant back in NY. In later decades Mexican immigration spread beyond their tradition strongholds (again, because it geographically was in their "backyard") of Texas, California and the rest of the Southwest to NYC, Chicago metros and then to some extent the entire rest of the country.

Kind of like how the bagel went from NYC through the Northeast to the rest of the country, so did the taco in reverse....

[Nerdlord]

Originally Posted by Bubble99

What you live in some rich community? Stay away from most areas of LA?

I never worry about gangs or getting shot either and I certainly don't live in "some rich community".

[anrev]

Originally Posted by Exitus Acta Probat

I've called the LAPD about that sort of thing before. Doesn't do much of anything useful.

Because it's not a crime. Is there a victim? No. Then no crime. Leave the police alone to fight real crime, like violence or theft. Stop wasting tax payers money on jailing the mentally ill.

Just look away. and your kids ask, tell them that's what happens when you don't do well in school.



Besides, any kid over the age of ten knows what jerking off is, esp if they are living and going to school in LA.

parents and their constant hand wringing about "THE CHILDREN!"

lol.