If you want great Metro Transit, this is it, and each city within LA has its own metro line. like the blue bus in santa monica/venice. south bay transit in the south bay.
Plus tons of employment opportunities in the IT field with great pay. i make 90K as a front end developer.
LA greater metropolitan area is by far NOT the "greatest." BUT, live in the right place and you definitely don't need a car for your everyday life -- i.e. West Hollywood, Pasadena, Santa Monica. You may, however, be inconvenienced without a car if you want to attend tech/entrepreneurship networking events (which tend to be in West LA, Santa Monica, and WeHo).
I agree that Metro is actually good, but LA is huge and so the coverage isn't as tight as more condensed cities. There is also a heavy car "culture" here, so socially-speaking you won't meet many others without cars.
I rip my hair out at this. I live close enough to Century City that I can generally walk to metro/santa monica/culver city lines if I can't take my car, but to most places I want to go to it's horrid and ends up taking more time and costing more as well. The only time I have never regretted taking a bus is in the super early mornings when I have an entire bendy Metro Rapid bus to myself all the way downtown, or when I can take the commuter express...both usually to get to some destination near downtown.
You need to live in very specific areas to benefit from existing public transit, and the inflexibility of the existing systems (and city sprawl) will not make you happy in those occasional situations you need to go to some kinda event that is way out of your way. Other than that, yes, maybe Metro itself is pretty awesome. Also, I have to mention that the flyaway service is awesome too, public transit from westwood to lax in the same time as a shuttle only paying 1/4 of the price? Yay!
I wish car sharing were more popular in this area, but flexcar/zipcar sort of fucked us over in that aspect.
Probably because suggesting LA for a person who wants public transport is like suggesting they move to the maldives if they want great, low latency, bandwidth for their data center.
If you want great Metro Transit, this is it, and each city within LA has its own metro line. like the blue bus in santa monica/venice. south bay transit in the south bay.
Plus tons of employment opportunities in the IT field with great pay. i make 90K as a front end developer.
No doubt LA is the greatest