They say San Pedro is the Venice of the South Bay.
Either way, you'll still be living the city of Los Angeles. Both Venice and San Pedro are simply sections of El Lay city proper.
Now you make it sound like you don't even remember the place.
How on earth can Venice be anything like the rest of L.A.?
I used to live there, I can talk all day about how different it is.
And, excuse me, San Pedro is not part of the City of Los Angeles. Neither is Long Beach.
I even have close friends who also moved "away up North" to get away from L.A. and they said that they can't stand it either, but most of them have mellowed into more of a "I won't live there but I can manage a visit, live and let live." approach.
You know I grew up there - Redondo Beach - 190th & Beryl St. Now that both folks are gone, I haven't been back. Bro still lives there - but he's also never traveled anywhere in the U.S. - let alone around the world - so he can't miss what he doesn't know what he's missing.
Yeah well, here's where I've lived:
Bethesda, Maryland (till age 21)
New York City (summers)
Long Island (summers)
Minneapolis (1977-1982)
Starting in 1982---
Marina del Rey
Venice
Santa Monica
Culver City
Starting in 1999---
Jonesboro, Arkansas
Dallas-Fort Worth, TX
And now back in El-Lay again. (Downey)
And I've been all over the world as well.
So I'm not like your brother.
I don't know when you left Redondo, so I don't have a frame of reference for Los Angeles but if you haven't been back you're fighting ghosts.
Maybe you should just forget about that and regard it as just another city, or do you hold contempt for ALL other cities?
That would take a LOT of time and energy!
