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SANTA MONICA, CA We
chose centrally located Santa Monica in the Los Angeles area as our
home base, since the air by the ocean is cleaner, and for easy access
to the freeway system via the Santa Monica Freeway. From there we made
forays to Hollywood, Bellaire, Pasadena, Venice, downtown Los Angeles,
and so on. It was a good choice, though the Los Angeles area, my home
for five years during grad school, is still worst among California cities,
I believe, and for the usual list of reasons: air quality, traffic,
congestion, suburban sprawl, malls, and so on and on. All true. Hollywood
is as grungy as ever. Pasadena has changed remarkably since I lived
in the area--though the place across from the park in South Pasadena
where I lived in a treehouse for a couple years long ago, still exists.
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