Los Angeles EXPLAINED, before and now

Cali gals walk in skimpy bikinis as tanned hipster child rides skateboard without sunscreen

(Peter Santenello) Los Angeles: What it's really like now on mean sunny streets (July 2025) 🇺🇸

Currently, LA is a police state overrun by Feds

What can be said about the worst greatest city in the world? It's not like Angelenos walk around not knowing what the megalopolis is really like. We just act that way because we know there is no "Los Angeles" as such. It's just an idea with no center and unclear borders. Long Beach is not part of the OC. It's still in LA, but probably most people do not realize that. The tip of the peninsula that is San Pedro was once an important Indian village. But next to no one even realizes you can drive there because it's beyond the Port of Los Angeles. And the port should be the southernmost point in most cases.

Los Angeles the county is larger in population than 40 of the 50 or so states that make up the USA. (What is the USA, Russia's neighbor facing west, just east of Siberia? Are Puerto Rico, Guam, and more than 1,000 islands in the Pacific part of the pack or not? Indigenous Hawaii is not four or five islands but more than 1,000 atolls and spits and areas that are off-limits to everyone but the military). So what is LA or LA City? It used to be Tovaangar to the Native peoples. Now it's 88 cities and unincorporated areas, neighborhoods, zip codes and area codes, invisible boundaries and real estate redlinings. It's a mess, an expensive mess because everyone keeps coming in search of the dream. Which dream? Take your choice -- cultural diversity, porn manufacturing, magazine pieces, and various industries. Love it, hate it, everyone will visit, so we wrongly say it is the "capital of the world." This video provides a better glimpse than Beverly Hills, 90210, La La Land, or The O.C. ever are likely to suggest to anyone thinking of visiting. It's A Tale of Two Cities, the illusion and the reality, sometimes fire and other times just smog and haze.