Living in LA

Here in beautiful Los Angeles-

Driving time isn't dependent on "weather permitting" but Traffic. Traffic can get so bad, it's got its'own special name, a Sigalert.*

A street map that is approximately 1 inch thick is mandatory along with a car.

Yellow signs with black lettering mean a film crew is nearby with the potential for star sightings and movie trailers. Usually all you see is the security guards.

Many retail businesses like the dry cleaners, restaurants, and the corner drugstore will post the head shots of the famous people who cleaned, supped, and drugged up at their place of business. (Head shots are the black and white photographs that actors use as their professional calling card.)

The journeyman movie actor next door works hard and the job is not so glamorous.

People from the East Coast and Europe don't really get the importance of flip flops here. 60F is chilly.

Architecture fifty years old is considered "historical".

There is a district for everything in L.A., Fashion District, Fabric district, Jewelry District, Design Center, Wholesale Flower Mart, you name it. The shopping will blow your mind and I'm not even talking about Melrose, Rodeo, or Fashion Island.

There's every kind of ethnic neighborhood. Chinatown, Little India, Little Armenia, Little Ethiopia, the list goes on and on. There is a cheese cake sold at a Filipino bakery that will have you craving it for years.

I think Los Angeles is the most underrated international city in the World.

What are some unique joys of your part of the world? Thank you.

* (Mrs.Spit gave me the courage to use both the possessive and contraction forms for IT in a Sentence. I thank her for her faith in me.)