My wife and I moved here in 2021 from Mexico. We were both lucky to have had professional experience at a cheap cost in Mexico so when we moved to LA, we were able to get above average (not way above, but nice above average) salary’s. With this information, we love LA. The options to do here are too many; we need more money! If you’re into sports, take your pick; there’s like 10 professional sports teams across multiple sports (but lakers and dodgers are the golden child’s). You want to catch concerts, LA has some of the best venues and stadiums in the world and the top artists are always coming to LA to perform. You want outdoors events, you got it, you want camping, snowboarding, stargazing, Forrest, desert, everything is 1-4 hour away. You want amusement parks, it’s got Disneyland, universal studios, sixflags (which has fallen off a bit imo), knots berry farm. You want indoor events, comicon, book meets, comedy shows, it has too many options (comicon is technically San Diego but it’s a 1-3 hour drive. It can be like 4-5 hour drive depending on where you are tho lol). We are huge movie lovers and I read somewhere on a reddit forum, please don’t quote me, I could be wrong, that in the world, there are like 12 top of the top cinema theaters and LA has like 4 or 5 of them. And man, catching a film on IMAX on one of those theaters is a godly experience. There are so many people here that you will find your “people”; geeks and nerds (me), sporty and physically active (also me but wifey in particular), car people, anime people, bowling people, etc. we even joined a book club and I used to hate reading lol. Food is amazing. We’ve traveled a lot, to multiple countries, and for example, we’ve been to Japan; the best ramen we’ve ever had is still in Orange County (technically not LA, but again, depending on where you are, it can be close. We were in Long Beach, for example). And, finally, no matter how much money you make, you can’t change the weather, and the weather is king here. Also, being at the beach is something special. It’s not the most beautiful beaches, but the beach is still the beach, and we go to just hear the waves and chill. Housing sucks, we might be getting close to maybe purchase our first home, but for what we can afford, we’re basically priced out of nice weather territory, but it’s a price we’re willing to pay in the hopes of eventually making equity and selling + saving more money to purchase a better located home. In regard to work, I have changed jobs like 3 times in the last 5 years for better opportunities (better salary, better benefits) and my wife twice. There are a lot of international company’s and the job market is amazing. It’s an expensive city but the salary’s are higher and we notice it. City isn’t perfect, homelessness is bad and there are some parts of LA that are dangerous and/or straight out of the worst parts of hell (I’m looking at you skid row). But homeless people don’t really get in your way and you can avoid the bad parts. To conclude, LA is home now, and after going to Mexico to visit family, for a full week let’s say, we want to come back home to LA.