The City of Angels

Greetings my fellow Observers,

As the city of Los Angeles is transforming itself into an even greater metropolis than it already is, there are some very alarming developments that are occurring. The number one alarming statistic is that Los Angeles, like San Francisco, and New York has become one of the most expensive cities in the United States in which to live.

For the first time in years, the migration from Los Angeles to New York has exceeded the migration from New York to Los Angeles. Furthermore, the African American middle class is dwindling in the city and moving east to San Bernardino and Riverside or Atlanta.

Part of this migration was expected because to balance it's budget, the state and especially Los Angeles County had to implement voter approved tax increases. And due to the affects of the growth of "Silicon Valley" in Northern California, Los Angeles is becoming prime territory for the young up and coming programmers and code writers who prefer to live in sunny Southern California.

At present, there are housing, condo, and apartment developments being built all over the city, especially in the downtown area. This is due to the fact that millennials, who are less inclined to want to live in the suburbs, or share the same separatist views as their parents, are flocking to these areas.

A few years ago, when the Los Angeles to San Francisco bullet train idea was floated, very few people paid any mind to the notion. Now that it is rapidly becoming a reality, it makes plenty of sense. How else will the software engineers who work in Silicon Valley commute to work everyday from Los Angeles?

This very positive growth is placing great demands on the city's government because there are 13,000 homeless people being created every month by this increased cost of living and the displacement caused by this new construction. The city officials will be challenged to determine what to do with this rapidly growing homeless population because the jails are full and areas where they used to camp are now under construction.

The city officials view the problems with the homeless as a cost of doing business associated with their desire to create a mega-tropolis
out of downtown Los Angeles because it has been the step cousin of New York, San Francisco, and Chicago for years. Mad Man has no idea what will become of this rapidly growing population and like you, he will wait and see.

Mad Man