My white neighbor thought I was breaking into my own apartment. Nineteen cops showed up.

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48. I've spent a lot of time in Santa Monica.

Santa Monica is a small city west of Los Angeles that is on the actual coast. It is where Interstate 10 ends and merges into the Pacific Coast Highway headed out towards Malibu. It has traditionally been a very liberal town, sometimes referred to as the People's Republic of Santa Monica. The city had rent control that could be passed on from tenant to tenant. Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden lived there.

There has been a black community there forever, too, though, out about 20th Street, near Santa Monica College. It is a fairly diverse city, within the extremely diverse region. The cost of real estate there has soared over the past 40 years, especially north of Wilshire. A tiny tear-down starts over a million.

And probably, the police force doesn't have enough to do, unlike nearby Los Angeles. When I lived in West LA, just over the border, the joke was that you had to tell the police that there was a man on your lawn with a gun to get any response at all. When our house was burglarized, it took the police 4 hours to show up, and we lived three blocks from a police station.

I'm curious as to where the author lived. I fully believe her about her attorney asshole neighbor; there are lots of attorney assholes in LA. I used to deal with them when I briefly worked for an insurance company there.

Whitey Bulger lived there in hiding for years. OJ Simpson and Nicole Brown Simpson partied there. It has been fairly easy to see celebrities on the Third Street Promenade on weekend nights, one of hot places in the city.

Many famous rock bands had their early concerts at the Santa Monica Civic Center. There were great free concerts on the Pier. But I digress .....