LA is awesome and I'm so happy to see this happening. There is a public school quality issue but if you're single or without kids, it's a great place to be. The

LA is awesome and I'm so happy to see this happening. There is a public school quality issue but if you're single or without kids, it's a great place to be. The tradeoff is good schools are either private or long commutes away from the Silicon Beach areas (west SF valley, Chatsworth, Calabasas, Thousand Oaks, Pallos Verdes etc). In LA, they call Hollywood simply "The Industry". A lot of people I met did get burned out by 30 because of pecking order that is the industry. You can work your butt off and never grow in your career, then you realize you're still renting with roommates at 30+. It can get tough. I saw a lot of friends just leave for cheaper housing and more conventional jobs. Hollywood does abuse it's tech employees (and most of it's other employees). But even non actors have stars in their eyes and take the abuse to say they worked on XYZ movie. And so the cycle continues, lots of ambitious young people enter the Industry while the burnouts throw in the towel. And the employers get away with it.