Cost of living for LA / So Cal Residents

[WhiteBoy]

what the Blood clot? why are you tryna move from the burbs to the hood homie - thats some backwards shit. niggas in the hood tryna stack chips to get into the burbs

i remeber reading about where home boy lives at now,,, i can't say between the two which one i would least want to live....
im gonna move my ass out to the country get some land, a big ass barn,,,, they been making them pretty nice nowadays,,, then get that dro flowing, bam! it'll all pay for itself.

[Dr Funky]

Huh? Who said I was trying to move to the hood?? I just wanted to see what it's like out in LA. I definetly don't live in the Burbs. I'll post pics of my city later and show you what it looks like here.

[Dr Funky]

I just have to get off my lazy @ss! LOL!

[julialee]

Ive heard that too that housing is cheaper in IE.Guess thats why people are moving out there lol:-)

Whiteboy & Dr Funky remind me if im ever back east not to drive behind u 2 in the snow lol.

[RuthlessCray]

Ive heard that too that housing is cheaper in IE.Guess thats why people are moving out there lol:-)

half the people that live out here are straight outta LA. thats why their is so many IE vs. LA gang wars.

[julialee]

Thats true.Instead of getting away from the violence it moves too:-(

[Dr Funky]

Ive heard that too that housing is cheaper in IE.Guess thats why people are moving out there lol:-)

Whiteboy & Dr Funky remind me if im ever back east not to drive behind u 2 in the snow lol.

LOL! Yeah when I do my blizzard thing people switch into the lane next to me and if there isn't one there they slow down and drive about 5 car lengths behind. Then I also do the thing that Whiteboy does. I love doing donuts. One time I tried to pass a car that was going really slow and I almost hit an oncoming car. When I swerved back into my lane I started to fish tail!! Damn near killed all my friends that were with me!!!
Is it really expensive to live in LA?

[julialee]

lol your poor friends.

In alot of parts of LA it is expensive compared to other parts of Southern Cali.

[RuthlessCray]

yeah the closer you get to LA the more expensive..thats why alot of people live in the IE but work in LA.

[Dr Funky]

Thats when they found out I was crazy!

[julialee]

True more opprotunities here but rent or paying a house ot is rediculous.

[Dr Funky]

What time is it out there? Here it is 12:41 am. It's now tomarrow!

[julialee]

9:44 p.m. 3 hours difference.

[Dr Funky]

Hmm I thought there was more! As if you guys all just woke up or something! LOL

[julialee]

lol, not even bedtime yet:-),I just barely get a chance to get online around this time without somebody at the house buggin

[Dr Funky]

What part of South LA are you in? What is Compton like? It must be crazy!

[WhiteBoy]

Thats when they found out I was crazy!

man,,,, we flipped a 72 chevelle the first snow of the year back in 02,,, ive put many cars into ditches, hit curbs and busted wheels and all that other crazy shit, but put me on some hot asphalt in a riced out eclipse or a wrx/sti/impreza,,, somthing fast and ill tear that bitch up.... driving in the snow takes some skill,, combine that with gravel and its even worse.
all the cities are expensive to live in any where... ive been looking for an apartment they start one bed rooms at like 500,,, then they jump from that to like 2 stacks a month.

[Dr Funky]

I'm not into the whole fast and furious thing. I prefer a nice big, old, american car. 1960's-1980's models. Cadillac, Chevy, Buick. Especially back when Buick was a BUICK!!! And I love convertibles.
I really love lowriders!

[WhiteBoy]

What part of South LA are you in? What is Compton like? It must be crazy!

have you ever been to an all black neighborhood? like i mean the ghetto,,, a poor area,,
the south side of the chi and also the west side,,, you hear crazy stories, watch movies and build this perception that, people are walking in and out of places jacking them stick up kids getting cars and all that,,, i mean it does happen and all,, but its not really like what you see. most of the time i get treated like im a cop, so no one really wants to make a move, but when you've got a good linebacker sized gentlemen and the qb walking with you,,
ive also seen my homies get check by their people like "why you bringin that cracker ass cop up in here?!?!"

[julialee]

In South Central By Huntington Park off of Florence and Compton ave.Compton is crazy too.
Your right any major city the rent is expensive, even in places like where I live they try to burn people.

[Dr Funky]

Of course I have been to an all black neighborhood. We have them here and in Buffalo. Unity Park, Center Court, Jordan Gardens ect. It's just that I thought that maybe it actually it IS like that or something. I know that the media makes it sound like you need AK-47's and grenade launchers just to buy milk and it's not true. I'm not dumb. I know.

[julialee]

It is crazy but its not that bad as its made out to be. I do walk to the corner market to bye milk lol and Im safe.The media Over Dramatizes alot of what goes on.In fact the media tends to stir things up and make it worse to me.Im really sick of it.I tell people where i live and its like "OH MY GOD" Arent You Scared?".

[Dr Funky]

[quote="julialee]It is crazy but its not that bad as its made out to be. I do walk to the corner market to bye milk lol and Im safe.The media Over Dramatizes alot of what goes on.In fact the media tends to stir things up and make it worse to me.Im really sick of it.I tell people where i live and its like "OH MY GOD" Arent You Scared?".[/quote]
AAAAHH HA HA HA HA!
You should mess with them and say something like "Yeah I got shot 5 times and stabbed 4!!" And wear an eye patch or something! That would really mess with someone! People think that I live in a super dangerous area. But that's only because they live in $200,000 houses! You can safely walk down the street and be perfectly fine. Put it this way. It is safe enough for 4 suburban kids to just walk down the street and be untouched. However if they go into the projects themselves they might have something said to them but that's it.

[julialee]

lol Ive thought of that too.tell them what they want to hear but at the same time it just feeds into the perception that people have of us.And your right it usually does come from people in the suburbs.They are "like why do you live there?" I just tell them well because i just do and why do you live where you live? then they just shut up.

[WhiteBoy]

once you get your ass beat to shit in one of those bad neighbor hoods, rob, stabbed shot or what ever,,, you'll understand what they are capable of. then you will have respect for them, like a child being burned by the stove,,, how many times does it take to learn that lesson?
what you gotta figure out is how to act and behave when your in a sketchy area, if your looking all flossy and flashy, some one that doesn't have it so good is probly gonna try somthing on you, but if your just chilling getting a dime bag or what ever not making a scene, your strait,
down on western and like 79th or somthing it was late as fuck i was high and out with my home boy, we went to one of these polish dog places that they always have the workers glued in behind some bullet proof glass,,, i got out and a couple miscrits looked over and moved towards the same place we were going when my homie turned and said "hey dawg, i dunno you might wanna get your bat or somthing"
now that shocked me, i got the bad and needless to say, i didn't get messed with.

[julialee]

exactly, u treat people the way you want to be treated with respect.If people act like they are all that and then some then those are the ones who have problems.

[Dr Funky]

Yeah, I just hate it when I go to suburban area and I see kids who think and act like they are from the "hood"

[se11]

LA is definatley over hyped by most of the media. at least LA in general. if LA was such a bad area, all the mainstream movie stars, singers, and ect. wouldn't be moving there.

[purplecityhello]

LA is big - youre not gonna move up to hollywood hills offback - movie starts dont move to south central

[se11]

how far apart are they from each other, 20 mins? it's not like it's areal hike to get from SC to beverly hills.

[Dr Funky]

Yeah how big is the city itself? How long does it take to get from place to place?

[RuthlessCray]

it took me about 15 or 20 mins to get from Hollywood to the west side of SC.like in the 20th streets.