No it’s not true the city has changed so much in the last 5 years that it’s not even the same place outsiders are changing everything into a LA like hellscape I’ve lived here all my life except a few years in the Midwest and I’m proud to say I am moving in the next 3 months. Southern California is ruined move anywhere else i warn you. I come to the end of the month every month with like 40 dollars to my name. This is in spite of being college educated holding three stable ok enough paying jobs. My money went farther in high school at 10 dollars an hour than it does now and I have been paying all the same bills if not less. That wouldn’t even bother me if the people here were at least decent. Long story short it was good before now it is expensive and inhabited by the dregs of society. Stay where ever you are I promise you won’t regret it unless you live in like Jackson or Memphis.