California’s Economy Is Booming — at a High Price
The cost of living in Los Angeles can be brutal, no matter how good Gavin Newsom is at his job.
Ponying up at the pump.
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As I may have mentioned once or twice, my daughter went to college in Los Angeles. She loved almost everything about it — her classes, her campus, her friends — but hated one thing: Los Angeles. There may have been more than a little bit of New York City-kid snobbery involved, but I saw her points: the low-rise mundanity, low-speed traffic, low-distance vision, low housing density that results in there being too many theres there. Also, as a member of the Class of Covid-19, she spent only four semesters on campus with actual real-live professors, while her loving family got to pay private-school tuition for all eight.