Speaker 1: Well, the city council might only give you sixty seconds
Speaker 1: to where your grievance is.
Speaker 2: Oh hi, i'd like to start go to the first
Speaker 2: caller on the phone.
Speaker 1: Twell, if you're lucky, now we're giving you a both
Speaker 1: sixty minutes. It's a KABC News Blitz with Randy Wang
Speaker 1: and our long recap of the day's top local stories
Speaker 1: on your drive home. And unlike the city Council, we're
Speaker 1: the perfect vehicle to actually get your voice heard. The
Speaker 1: KABC News Blitz with Randy Wang starts no, no, No.
Speaker 2: It is the News Blitz with Randy Wang on Talk
Speaker 2: radio seven ninety KABC. This is your daily rundown of
Speaker 2: everything you need to know that's going on in Southern California,
Speaker 2: the Bay Area, Sacramento, San Diego, and the Central Valley.
Speaker 2: I compile a list every single day of all the
Speaker 2: news stories that I found that you may find interesting
Speaker 2: that you may have missed at Randywangradio dot substack dot com.
Speaker 2: That's Randy Wang Radio substack dot com. The phone number
Speaker 2: to join us is eight hundred two two two five
Speaker 2: two two two one eight hundred two two two five
Speaker 2: two two two, And I have a very important conversation
Speaker 2: that I need to have with everybody listening right now.
Speaker 2: Yesterday we played some of the sound of the debate
Speaker 2: between Nithia Rahman and Karen Bass, and I had one
Speaker 2: very clear takeaway. This city is not getting any better
Speaker 2: anytime soon, no matter which one of these two morons
Speaker 2: gets in charge. So that's when I came to the
Speaker 2: realization that enough is enough. If I cannot vote for
Speaker 2: somebody that's going to fix the problems here, I've got
Speaker 2: to vote with my feet and I've got to go
Speaker 2: somewhere else. Now. I'm sure you're all aware that, like
Speaker 2: my five my her ten year plan is to like
Speaker 2: live part time in Santa Fe, New Mexico. But I'm
Speaker 2: not even talking about that right now. I obviously still
Speaker 2: need to work in the Southern California area. My job
Speaker 2: is in the Southern California area. We do a lot
Speaker 2: of events out here, what have you. But I am
Speaker 2: so ready to be out of the city of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: I in the next year or so want to move. Realistically,
Speaker 2: with interest rates, we would probably rent out this house
Speaker 2: and then go rent or buy somewhere else if we
Speaker 2: could figure that out. But I want to be somewhere else.
Speaker 2: I am forty one years old, and I am at
Speaker 2: a point where I should really, really really like where
Speaker 2: I'm living. I sure work my ass off. I should
Speaker 2: be able to enjoy the place that I am and
Speaker 2: every single time that I traveled to all the things
Speaker 2: that I like that I don't have. So let's take
Speaker 2: all of the politics out of this right now, because
Speaker 2: life is so much more about who is running your city.
Speaker 2: That's definitely an important part of it, but there are
Speaker 2: so many other aspects, you know, when it comes to
Speaker 2: the actual quality of life day in day out, what
Speaker 2: are the things that I am looking for. One thing
Speaker 2: that I have learned over the last many years is
Speaker 2: that I really love walking. I really love walking, and
Speaker 2: while I can walk around my neighborhood a million times,
Speaker 2: I prefer walking where there's stuff to do, or walking
Speaker 2: and you can see cool stuff. Whether that's walking in
Speaker 2: a beautiful manicured trail nothing too wilderness e or walking
Speaker 2: around a safe, fun downtown in a city. I love
Speaker 2: walking around. I love going to places. I love when
Speaker 2: my wife and I can go walk somewhere to a
Speaker 2: patio and go have a nice meal. That's another thing.
Speaker 2: Great restaurants very important to me. And you know, Los
Speaker 2: Angeles does have a lot of great restaurants, but they're
Speaker 2: so spread out that it is such an adventure to
Speaker 2: get to any of them. Outside of all the politics
Speaker 2: problems of the city of Los Angeles, my biggest gripe
Speaker 2: with LA is it's too big and it's too spread out,
Speaker 2: and I live in the suburbs and it's a pain
Speaker 2: in the butt to go anywhere. But it doesn't have
Speaker 2: to be that way for me. The only reason I'm
Speaker 2: still here is because I choose to be. I can
Speaker 2: choose to move anywhere else within a reasonable distance of
Speaker 2: Culver City, because my commute already sucks and it would
Speaker 2: have to be a really nice place to have to
Speaker 2: make that commute even or you know, the universe could
Speaker 2: align my way and we could start, you know, having
Speaker 2: me work full time remote. It'll happen someday. Make sure
Speaker 2: to subscribe to the YouTube channel. It's our lifeline. So
Speaker 2: what am I looking for in a place that I
Speaker 2: want to live. I'm looking for walkability. I think I'm
Speaker 2: also looking for at this point, if I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: to pay through the nose to live in southern California.
Speaker 2: It's got to be somewhere that doesn't have the heat
Speaker 2: of the San Fernando Valley. I'm over it. So even
Speaker 2: though I love the walkability and I loved living in
Speaker 2: the city of Burbank, I don't know if I can
Speaker 2: do Burbank again. Like, these summers are getting really unbearable.
Speaker 2: And yeah, most of the year it's fine and it's pleasant,
Speaker 2: but you know, I got out of my car today
Speaker 2: at four o'clock as I park in my driveway and
Speaker 2: it's just like, ugh, this is awful, you know. And
Speaker 2: I drive into Call, which is on the other side
Speaker 2: of the hill, and it's like fifteen sixteen degrees cooler.
Speaker 2: Culver's a possibility, you know, Culver I wouldn't hate, although
Speaker 2: I mean it'd be really really a hard sell. Oh,
Speaker 2: let's move to the place that's right next to my work.
Speaker 2: But Culver has a lot of fun stuff going for it.
Speaker 2: You know, the walkable outdoor mall so that there's not
Speaker 2: that many things there, but the platform or the Culver
Speaker 2: City steps, those are kind of cool. There are some
Speaker 2: great restaurants. What I do like about Culver, and I
Speaker 2: explored this a couple of years ago. Many years before
Speaker 2: I took over this time slot and the news Blitz
Speaker 2: was rotating guest hosts. There was a week where an
Speaker 2: old partner of mine, Leahn Tweeden, who I used to
Speaker 2: work with on the morning show, she was asked to
Speaker 2: do a week of guest hosting and she asked me,
Speaker 2: and I was working noon to three at the time,
Speaker 2: if I would do the time slot with her at
Speaker 2: this point, I think this show was six to seven pm,
Speaker 2: and I said yes, because well, I love Leanne, and
Speaker 2: you know I'm a narcissist, and any excuse to get
Speaker 2: paid to talk on the radio. I don't think I
Speaker 2: got paid extra for it, but you know what, I
Speaker 2: was happy to do it. And so for that entire
Speaker 2: week I had to figure out what to do with
Speaker 2: myself between three pm and six pm because only about
Speaker 2: a half hour that was going to be show prep,
Speaker 2: and so I had to figure out what to do. Well,
Speaker 2: I could go walk to the Trader Joe's over there
Speaker 2: on Culver, could do that. What I ended up figuring
Speaker 2: out the first day was that if you don't mind
Speaker 2: a little bit of a detour, because it's not a
Speaker 2: straight shot, you can walk from where the radio station
Speaker 2: is in Culver City. It takes about a half hour
Speaker 2: to get there to the Baldwin Hill's scenic overlook and
Speaker 2: those massive, massive staircase at that hiking trail, and I
Speaker 2: made it there. I didn't really know where I was going,
Speaker 2: but I loved it, and I loved that I could
Speaker 2: walk there from it, and the neighborhood that's right next
Speaker 2: to the radio station is It's pretty nice, you know.
Speaker 2: And Culver City is not the City of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: It has its issues, like with the bus only lanes
Speaker 2: and the traffic and the red turn arrows, what have you.
Speaker 2: But Culver's pretty nice and being able to walk to
Speaker 2: a trail like that is pretty cool. So that's a possibility.
Speaker 2: I don't think I could really afford some of the
Speaker 2: beach towns, but I'm open to it if there is
Speaker 2: a way to figure that out. You know, walk up
Speaker 2: and down a board walk every single day. Again, great
Speaker 2: restaurants are an important thing, you know. Maybe it's time
Speaker 2: to think about Orange County, where, you know, not only
Speaker 2: are you leaving La City, you're leaving La County where
Speaker 2: things are a little better run.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Could I see myself in Seal Beach someday it's possible.
Speaker 2: I do love Seal Beach, you know, although Long Beach
Speaker 2: I also think Long Beach is pretty fantastic.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Over the weekend to beat the heat, we're gonna go
Speaker 2: hang out in Ventor and ox Start. And it is
Speaker 2: so funny. This is how crazy I am getting in,
Speaker 2: Like I've got to get out. Yesterday, as we're figuring
Speaker 2: out what to do to beat the hundred degree heat,
Speaker 2: my wife says, oh, I found a place that we
Speaker 2: can take the dogs at, you know, the Ventura Harbor
Speaker 2: near Oxnard. And I'm like, oh, well, that sounds fun. Hey,
Speaker 2: what's going on in Oxnard? And I just start looking
Speaker 2: it up and I start like doing a deep dive
Speaker 2: and I start looking into River Park and Oxnart, which
Speaker 2: is this master planned community where you know when you
Speaker 2: go up the one to one freeway and you see
Speaker 2: that massive outdoor mall that's right off the freeway in
Speaker 2: Oxnard with the Whole Foods and all that stuff, the collection,
Speaker 2: and right behind that is this whole neighborhood where every
Speaker 2: single house or condo apartment is walking distance to this
Speaker 2: big outdoor mall. And I started looking at it, like
Speaker 2: for how much house prices are. I started looking at
Speaker 2: you know, what's life like there? I was watching YouTube
Speaker 2: videos of real estate agents of what is this like there?
Speaker 2: How is living there? And there are pros, there are cons,
Speaker 2: But that would be kind of fun.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: It's like I do. My wife and I, even though
Speaker 2: we live in the middle of Lake Balboa, we go
Speaker 2: to Woodland Hills a lot and go to the Woodland
Speaker 2: Hills Village. And I was just saying the other day,
Speaker 2: you know, if we live within walking distance to the
Speaker 2: Woodland Hills village, that would be pretty fun. That being said,
Speaker 2: the heat of Woodland Hills is brutal, and Woodland Hills
Speaker 2: is very expensive. That vineyards at porter Rane, that would
Speaker 2: be a fun area to live nearby and walk to
Speaker 2: that every single day. So I do like the idea
Speaker 2: of walking to a boardwalk every day. Walking to some
Speaker 2: kind of outdoor mall definitely has to be an outdoor mall.
Speaker 2: Indoor malls are so nineteen eighties. But this is where
Speaker 2: I need some advice because, you know, even though I've
Speaker 2: lived in Southern California my entire life, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of Southern California I have not seen. I have not
Speaker 2: experienced as now I am declaring myself a free agent,
Speaker 2: starting to explore the possibility that I would like to
Speaker 2: live somewhere else in the region, Somewhere that's a little cleaner,
Speaker 2: somewhere that's a little safer, Somewhere where I can do
Speaker 2: a lot of walking, but also has great restaurants, maybe
Speaker 2: some good bars, maybe some hiking or trails. I'd love
Speaker 2: to know if there's a you know, tell me where
Speaker 2: if you want to sell me on, like the part
Speaker 2: of town where you live in, whether you're in Ventura County,
Speaker 2: whether you're in Orange County, or the parts of La
Speaker 2: County that are nice, the South Bay, Pasadena, Burbank, Glendale,
Speaker 2: what have you. If you don't live in the city
Speaker 2: of Los Angeles, but you live in southern California and
Speaker 2: you want to tell me why your part of town
Speaker 2: is great compared to La the phone lines are open
Speaker 2: right now at eight hundred two two two five two
Speaker 2: two two one eight hundred two two two five two
Speaker 2: two two. If you live in a fun, walkable area,
Speaker 2: tell me about it and tell me why I should
Speaker 2: consider not only just exploring and checking it out, but
Speaker 2: maybe moving there someday. I need out of the city
Speaker 2: of Los Angeles like yesterday. I need out of the
Speaker 2: valley like yesterday. So if you've got a fun area,
Speaker 2: if there there's a neighborhood that you love that you
Speaker 2: want to tell me about. You know, a small city
Speaker 2: that doesn't get enough attention, but it's kind of like,
Speaker 2: you know, the little secrets of southern California, where life
Speaker 2: is actually a quality of life is good. Tell me
Speaker 2: about it. Eight hundred two two two five two two
Speaker 2: two one. Eight hundred two two two five two two two.
Speaker 2: I am planning. I'm at the beginning stages of planning
Speaker 2: my escape from the City of Los Angeles. So I
Speaker 2: need to figure out where to go. Where should Randy
Speaker 2: Wang move to eight hundred two two two five two
Speaker 2: two two one. Eight hundred two two two five two
Speaker 2: two two. I got to get the hell out of
Speaker 2: LA I would like to live somewhere in southern California
Speaker 2: where the quality of life is much better. So tell
Speaker 2: me where I should go. Eight hundred two two two
Speaker 2: five two two two one, eight hundred two two two
Speaker 2: five two two two. It's the News Blitz with Randy
Speaker 2: Wang on Talk radio seven ninety KABC. Now it's the
Speaker 2: news Blitz with Randy Wang on Talk radio seven ninety
Speaker 2: kab see if you're on hold, stay right there. We're
Speaker 2: getting to your calls, and we'll be screening your calls momentarily.
Speaker 2: We're taking your phone calls right now. The phone number
Speaker 2: to join us is eight hundred two two two five
Speaker 2: two two two one. Eight hundred two two two five
Speaker 2: two two two. I have had it with living and
Speaker 2: paying taxes in the city of Los Angeles. There has
Speaker 2: to be a better way. There are people listening right now.
Speaker 2: You have a better quality of life than I do
Speaker 2: because you don't live in the city of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: So I'm a free agent. The things I'm looking for
Speaker 2: is good weather and somewhere where I can do a
Speaker 2: lot of walking. Maybe walk to some restaurants or an
Speaker 2: outdoor shopping center. What have you. I like walking, and
Speaker 2: I like good weather, and I like to not have
Speaker 2: to drive everywhere. So give me your pitch. Where should
Speaker 2: Randy Wang move to eight hundred two two two five
Speaker 2: two two two one eight hundred two two two five
Speaker 2: two two two. Let's start with Linda in Torrents. Linda, Hello, Randy.
Speaker 4: Come to the South Bay. I work in Culver city.
Speaker 4: I have lived in El Segundo, Torrance, little great pocket
Speaker 4: a Hawthorne called Holly Glenn, and I've lived in Redondo Beach.
Speaker 4: You're close to Manhattan, Hermosa, the bars, the food, You're
Speaker 4: close to pev for the hikes up in PV along
Speaker 4: the coast which are fabulous, and even the little cities
Speaker 4: around here. Torrance has the Madrona Marsh to walk around.
Speaker 4: The beaches have the strand there's plenty of walking, plenty
Speaker 4: of great little cities like El Segundo if you live
Speaker 4: there to walk to the downtown. And Torrance has a
Speaker 4: great old town. But any of the beach cities are great.
Speaker 4: But even you know, the price tags high and the
Speaker 4: ones that end in beach. But Redondo is good, Torrents, Elsagundo,
Speaker 4: great little niches.
Speaker 2: I love that suggestion. I have spent some time in
Speaker 2: the South Bay, not nearly enough, but it is beautiful there.
Speaker 2: I also just for the way my life is going
Speaker 2: to be over the next years. Being that close to
Speaker 2: lax is probably a smart thing for me. But boy,
Speaker 2: you sure sell it great. You've got lots of great,
Speaker 2: beautiful splendor in every single direction, and Torrance has you know,
Speaker 2: safe neighborhoods, good restaurants. That that is a great idea.
Speaker 2: Torrance is a place I definitely have to look into.
Speaker 4: Yeah, anywhere that is west of the One hand Freeway
Speaker 4: is a good ten degrees cooler than anywhere else. And
Speaker 4: if you need a carpool body the cover city I
Speaker 4: got you.
Speaker 2: Well, there we go. Thanks so much for the call, Linda,
Speaker 2: appreciate it. Eight hundred two two two five two two
Speaker 2: two is the telephone number. I want to move out
Speaker 2: of La so bad, so tell me where I should go.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Marion in seem Valley.
Speaker 5: Marion, Hello, Hi, I think your idea of moving to
Speaker 5: River Walk area would be great. The weather's better. I
Speaker 5: like SeeMe Valley. I've been here for forty nine years,
Speaker 5: but that area it'd be cooler. I mean today, right now,
Speaker 5: it's like ninety four degrees out here. My brother lives
Speaker 5: in Torrance. He really likes it. But make sure if
Speaker 5: you move to the South Bay, you move to a
Speaker 5: city that has it. It's its own city, not part
Speaker 5: of LA City.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that is definitely the most important thing is
Speaker 2: I can no longer be giving my tax dollars to
Speaker 2: the city of Los Angeles. They don't deserve it somewhere
Speaker 2: else does. See Me is great And you know what
Speaker 2: I love about See Me is there's also tons and
Speaker 2: tons and tons of horse property out there. My wife
Speaker 2: is a horseback rider. But seem has great people. It's
Speaker 2: beautiful out there, and you know you're close to you
Speaker 2: know the other parts of Ventura County, Thousand Oaks, Oxnard, Camerio.
Speaker 2: It's a really good corridor out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I agree. Like I said, I've been here for forty
Speaker 5: nine years and I moved from West LA, and I
Speaker 5: really I wasn't happy at first because it was small town.
Speaker 5: But now it's it's We've got a lot of shopping
Speaker 5: and everything now, so it's cool.
Speaker 2: Well, i'd love to hear that. Thanks for the pitch
Speaker 2: for seeing Me. Thanks so much for the call. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Let's go to page in San Clementy page. Hello, Hi Randie.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm going to pitch San Clemente. If you want
Speaker 6: that hometown seal, this is where you gotta go. We
Speaker 6: have a beautiful walking trail. My husband and I walk
Speaker 6: five point five miles every day. You can walk into town.
Speaker 6: There are wonderful restaurants. We even have our own distillery.
Speaker 6: There's great shopping if you want to raise your children. Boy,
Speaker 6: we've got some of the best schools ever. My kids
Speaker 6: all went to the local Countain school.
Speaker 4: We also border on we.
Speaker 6: Can't Pendleton Marine Base, and so there's always a lot
Speaker 6: of activity there. They have lots of braids. We have
Speaker 6: our own battalion that we celebrate. It's just amazing. There
Speaker 6: is a saying, Randy, there's no bad day in San Clementy.
Speaker 6: If you're driving sound on the five and you passed
Speaker 6: Stanta points to temperature drops always about ten degrees, so
Speaker 6: it's always nice, full, ten breezy, and the peer can
Speaker 6: boast some of the most excluded suns that you'll ever
Speaker 6: want to see.
Speaker 2: Fantastics every time I have driven through San clement and
Speaker 2: I'm like, wow, this is such a beautiful, gorgeous area.
Speaker 2: Definitely something to consider. Thanks so much for the call, page,
Speaker 2: appreciate it. When you go to a place like that.
Speaker 2: Not only is the temperature drop, I bet your blood
Speaker 2: pressure drops as well. We're gonna take more of your
Speaker 2: phone calls. I'm a free agent. I want out of
Speaker 2: the city of la Where should I move to. I'm
Speaker 2: sure you live somewhere that's better than this horrible city
Speaker 2: that I live in. Eight hundred two two two five
Speaker 2: two two two. Give us a call. It's the News
Speaker 2: Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC. It's the News Blitz
Speaker 2: with Randy Wang on Talk radio seven to ninety KABC.
Speaker 2: I came to a realization yesterday listening to that mayoral
Speaker 2: debate between Nithia Rahman and Karen Bass. This city's not
Speaker 2: getting any better anytime soon. So the only thing that
Speaker 2: I can do, since I can't vote for anybody with
Speaker 2: common sense, is to vote with my feet and get
Speaker 2: out of the city of Los Angeles. I am declaring
Speaker 2: myself a free agent, Lebronda style, and I want to
Speaker 2: know where you think I should take my talents to.
Speaker 2: What city should Randy Wang move to in southern California.
Speaker 2: I'm looking for good weather, walkability, maybe some a nice
Speaker 2: little shopping center, or some good restaurants, what have you.
Speaker 2: I am open to ideas, as I really am thinking
Speaker 2: about in the next year moving out of the city
Speaker 2: of Los Angeles. Give me a call, tell me what
Speaker 2: you think. Eight hundred two two two five two two
Speaker 2: two one. Eight hundred two two two five two two two.
Speaker 2: You got a part of southern California that you think
Speaker 2: is a hidden gem that I should consider me.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 2: Eight hundred two two two five two two two. Let's
Speaker 2: go to Bob in Culver City.
Speaker 8: Bob, Hello, Hi, I have a perfect place for you.
Speaker 8: But the big question is can you afford to live
Speaker 8: in this area?
Speaker 2: Probably not. I work in radio, Bob, so probably not.
Speaker 8: Well, you'd have to afford to live in Ladera Heights
Speaker 8: about a one and a half million, and the houses
Speaker 8: are renting for about six to seven thousand a month.
Speaker 8: And it's absolutely perfect. It's ten minutes south of Culver City.
Speaker 8: It takes ten minutes to get to Lax, it takes
Speaker 8: ten minutes to get to the Marina del Rey. We
Speaker 8: have a highway patrol on the southwest corner, and we
Speaker 8: have the sheriff and they're terrific. It's a wonderful place.
Speaker 8: I walk every day and there must be half the
Speaker 8: residents now are young people.
Speaker 2: Well, I love to hear that. That checks all the
Speaker 2: boxes for me. Heck, I could probably walk to the
Speaker 2: radio station from there. Ladera Heights. I'm gonna have to
Speaker 2: check it out and see if that is in within
Speaker 2: my price range, or my theoretical price range. Thanks so
Speaker 2: much for the call, Bob appreciated. I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: we'll see. I'm definitely at a point where it's like
Speaker 2: I could be spending more on you know, rent or
Speaker 2: a mortgage than I am now. I wouldn't like to
Speaker 2: do that, but might be a necessary evil. Quality of
Speaker 2: life may make that worth it. Just means I have
Speaker 2: to cut down on the tequila a little bit. Let's
Speaker 2: go to David in Long Beach.
Speaker 3: David, Hello, good, good, thank you. Listen. I presently am
Speaker 3: living where there's ocean water running right up against my building. Here.
Speaker 3: I'm on Naples Island and Long Beach, which I'm not
Speaker 3: saying this is the best for what you're trying to accomplish,
Speaker 3: but I'm approaching ninety, which is where I've lived in
Speaker 3: all these places. And I started at age fifteen with
Speaker 3: my own boat, unusual, and we lived in Newport Beach
Speaker 3: on Balboa Island. Weatherwise, that's fantastic pretty much all year round.
Speaker 3: I think the pricing would probably kill you there now.
Speaker 3: The one that I'm thinking of are all the ones
Speaker 3: you mentioned, and I've also been there is the city
Speaker 3: of Ventura has more cool weather than Long Beach is
Speaker 3: actually pretty hot, with the exception of right here on
Speaker 3: the water. You walk less than a mile inland just
Speaker 3: to the Coast Highway here and it goes up twenty
Speaker 3: degrees because I know, I walked to Trader Joe's and
Speaker 3: it's twenty degrees higher than less than a mile to
Speaker 3: my house. So Ventura Ventura has the weather that's more
Speaker 3: like northern or central California. And what I don't know
Speaker 3: about Venturer is the price of housing. But it does
Speaker 3: have a reasonable good walking area by the mission there
Speaker 3: and everything. And again the ocean part of it is colder.
Speaker 3: The water temperature there is actually colder than around Long Beach.
Speaker 3: So I would like that one if I were picking
Speaker 3: it economically, because I think you might be able to
Speaker 3: get in there. The other thing is you've got somebody
Speaker 3: who used to work at the radio station named Mark Germain.
Speaker 3: I was friends with his parents. They had moved to
Speaker 3: the Venturer area and lived there, probably for the rest
Speaker 3: of the latter part of their lives. If you know Mark,
Speaker 3: you might give him a call and he could probably
Speaker 3: tell you what was good or But he's a pretty
Speaker 3: opinionated guy, so they'll give it to you straight.
Speaker 2: Well, those are some great suggestions. I've thought a lot
Speaker 2: about ventur I'm actually going to go hang out there
Speaker 2: this weekend. The weather is definitely much better, you know,
Speaker 2: and that at this point it used to not bother
Speaker 2: me as much because I've got air conditioning, but I
Speaker 2: like to be outdoors in it. I'm gonna tell you know.
Speaker 2: Today it was eight am and it was too hot
Speaker 2: to be walking outside where I'm like, I can't even
Speaker 2: bring the dogs. This is miserable, And like, for as
Speaker 2: much as I'm paying to be in LA, I could
Speaker 2: be paying less and have better weather in a place
Speaker 2: like Ventura. So that that that's one test.
Speaker 3: See sure Ventura they have they have railroad up there,
Speaker 3: multiple trains a day into LA with stops in the
Speaker 3: valley and see me and everything else, So that's available
Speaker 3: to you.
Speaker 2: I would like that, I'm telling you I would if
Speaker 2: I lived in a place where I could figure out
Speaker 2: a way to commute that doesn't involve driving, I would
Speaker 2: figure that out because I've had enough of driving on
Speaker 2: these freeways. Thanks so much for the call, David, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is
Speaker 2: the telephone number. I have had it with living and
Speaker 2: paying taxes in the city of Los Angeles. I feel
Speaker 2: like I get nothing for how much I pay, and
Speaker 2: because I live in the valley, it's hot, there's nothing
Speaker 2: fun to do, and I'm thank of it. So if
Speaker 2: you have a suggestion as to where I should try
Speaker 2: to look into moving in the next year or so,
Speaker 2: any part of southern California within reason eight hundred two
Speaker 2: two two five two two two one eight hundred two
Speaker 2: two two five two two two. Let's go to Patricia Patricia. Hello, Patricia,
Speaker 2: Patricia going once, Patricia going twice, call us back.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: It is uh. I've had this gripe before, but every
Speaker 2: time it happens, I just have to say it out loud.
Speaker 2: It is twenty twenty six. There is ai technology that
Speaker 2: does so many incredible things. We're sending unman rockets to
Speaker 2: the moon every single day. We are in the age
Speaker 2: of information, We're in the age of the future, and
Speaker 2: so all phone quality has never been more unreliable. What
Speaker 2: is going on with that? It is just something to
Speaker 2: think about now. I've been getting a lot of message
Speaker 2: on social media and at my email at Randy Wang
Speaker 2: Radio at gmail dot com on this topic as well,
Speaker 2: and Andrea writes in listening to your show right now,
Speaker 2: sounds like you want to move to Long Beach. Best
Speaker 2: foodie city in a California, Most dog friendly city in California. Well,
Speaker 2: DEM's fighting words. Because Carmel by the Sea, we'll say
Speaker 2: they're the most dog friendly city. Let's say the most
Speaker 2: dog friendly city in southern California. Most walkable and bikeable,
Speaker 2: amazing weather, no inland valley heat were perfectly accessible to
Speaker 2: Orange County and the city of la with access to
Speaker 2: every freeway. We have the best parks, and we are
Speaker 2: super fun. I'm going to say this right now. Every
Speaker 2: time we have gone down to do a live event
Speaker 2: at Gladstones in Long Beach with my buddy John sayingmeister,
Speaker 2: I look around and I'm like, boy, this is a
Speaker 2: super super fun place. In fact, one of the days
Speaker 2: we did one of those remotes, I got in very
Speaker 2: early and just did like a walk around the harbor
Speaker 2: and the marina there. You know what it was.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: I went there for the Grand Prix, and because of
Speaker 2: the Grand Prix, you couldn't just get to where Gladstones
Speaker 2: is because that's where the Grand Prix is going on,
Speaker 2: so I had to go all the way around, and
Speaker 2: I decided because I had time to take the scenic
Speaker 2: route and like walked around the harbor and saw the
Speaker 2: Queen Mary and like, this would be kind of an
Speaker 2: awesome view every single day. And of course, you know
Speaker 2: you have good dining. Gladstone's is out there, there's tons
Speaker 2: of great restaurants. I remember going to the Pike many
Speaker 2: years ago with a friend of mine and just having
Speaker 2: so much fun. Yeah, and you know, Long Beach does
Speaker 2: have its problems, as every city does, but yeah, Long
Speaker 2: Beach would be really cool. And what would be cool
Speaker 2: about Long Beach or anywhere around that area is one
Speaker 2: of the few nice things about living where I live
Speaker 2: in the Valley is we have Burbank Airport, and Burbank
Speaker 2: Airport is great for those short haul trips, but Long
Speaker 2: Beach has Long Beach Airport. I'd be open to that.
Speaker 2: That's definitely a possibility. So yeah, definitely another place that
Speaker 2: I am considering. And in fact, we have a remote
Speaker 2: in Long Beach at Gladstone's on October ninth, and I
Speaker 2: may just have to hang out for a while and
Speaker 2: just picture what life could be like. Now downtown Long
Speaker 2: Beach probably out of my price range. So subscribe to
Speaker 2: our YouTube channel so someday I can afford all of
Speaker 2: these places at Johnny don't like dot com. That's Johnny
Speaker 2: with a Y. Eight hundred two two two five two
Speaker 2: two two is the telephone number one eight hundred two
Speaker 2: two two five two two two I am looking to
Speaker 2: and I'm not even This isn't just like some topic.
Speaker 2: This is something I think about every single day. I
Speaker 2: do not want to live in the city of Los
Speaker 2: Angeles anymore. And politics is part of it, but part
Speaker 2: of it is just there is too much traffic, it
Speaker 2: is too spread out, and there's really not a lot
Speaker 2: of fun stuff to do where I live in the valley.
Speaker 2: So I want to be somewhere it's a little more fun,
Speaker 2: that's a little more walkable, maybe has a little better weather,
Speaker 2: and just a better quality of life. As I'm sure
Speaker 2: so many people listening right now have a better quality
Speaker 2: of life than I do. So tell me where I
Speaker 2: should go. Eight hundred two two two five two two
Speaker 2: two one eight hundred two two two five two two
Speaker 2: two will take more of your calls. You can also
Speaker 2: email me at Randy Wang Radio at gmail dot com.
Speaker 2: It's the News Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC. It's
Speaker 2: the News Blitz with Randy Wang on Talk radio seven
Speaker 2: ninety KABC. We're taking your phone calls at eight hundred
Speaker 2: two two two five two two two one. Eight hundred
Speaker 2: two two two five two two two. I am seriously
Speaker 2: considering in the next year getting out of the city
Speaker 2: of Los Angeles moving somewhere else in southern California because
Speaker 2: the quality of life in LA is so much worse
Speaker 2: than so many other places, and for a lot of
Speaker 2: it is just as expensive. So I'm taking suggestions. Where
Speaker 2: do you think I should move to. Eight hundred two
Speaker 2: two two five two two two. Let's start with Tom
Speaker 2: and San Clementy. Tom. Hello, yeah, hey, Randy.
Speaker 7: I don't know if you can work remote, but if
Speaker 7: you can, come on down to Sant Clementy. The ocean
Speaker 7: is beautiful, there's trails all over the place, and uh
Speaker 7: restaurants too. I think you'd really like it.
Speaker 2: I've driven through many times and need to spend more
Speaker 2: time there for sure, and the plan is eventually to
Speaker 2: work remotely. I'll tell you that very much. That is
Speaker 2: definitely a possibility. Tom. Thank you so much for the call.
Speaker 2: Appreciate it. Oh, being in South Orange County would be
Speaker 2: so great. Let's go to Mary and your Belinda. Mary.
Speaker 9: Hello, hey Randy. How about North Orange County. Lots of
Speaker 9: small cities. Downtown Orange has got the Circle of Orange
Speaker 9: with a lot of restaurants. Downtown Fullerton is always happening.
Speaker 9: Bria Mall is actually getting changed to that outdoor mall
Speaker 9: you were talking about. And they've got restaurants, lots of hiking,
Speaker 9: and your Belinda and Bray even has a little Redwood
Speaker 9: Force to visit.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, there's lots of options, you know. I've been
Speaker 2: through some of those areas. I have my brother lives
Speaker 2: in Irvine, he loves Orange County. I have a friend
Speaker 2: that lives in Fullerton. There is such a better quality
Speaker 2: of life in Orange County. If the commute thing would
Speaker 2: would irk me, but you know what, for so many people,
Speaker 2: I bet it's totally worth it. Plus, my commute is
Speaker 2: only fourteen miles and it's awful. It might be better
Speaker 2: you know down there. Think so much for the call, Mary,
Speaker 2: appreciate it. Let's go to Tony and Irvine.
Speaker 10: Tony, Hello, Hey, Tony Barbarina, how are you buddy and great,
Speaker 10: got it?
Speaker 3: Great?
Speaker 5: Well listen.
Speaker 10: First of all, I love your show. I love you,
Speaker 10: have been listening a long time. I'm a real city'san nervine.
Speaker 10: I got to tell you I live here for thirty years.
Speaker 10: Well run, well planned, clean, manicured. The tops are bored
Speaker 10: and well funded. And you know, crime here is like
Speaker 10: it's it's you have to find it. So if you're
Speaker 10: looking for a place where you feel you can relax
Speaker 10: and you're getting, you know, something expensive, but you're also
Speaker 10: going to sell it in the future for a lot
Speaker 10: of money, and you want to have clean, comfortable, organized,
Speaker 10: well run city, you really got to dig into Irvia, California.
Speaker 10: Everyone I helped buy a house here is just so happy,
Speaker 10: especially when they sell later. Oh.
Speaker 2: I couldn't agree with you more. My brother lives in Irvine.
Speaker 2: I go down to the Spectrum a few times a year.
Speaker 2: It's it's so much fun to other It's so clean
Speaker 2: down there, and you're right, it is the safest city
Speaker 2: in America for a reason. And you're still close to
Speaker 2: the beach. You know, Newport's right down the road. It's
Speaker 2: Irvine is great.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 10: Some people complain about how it's expensive, to be here.
Speaker 10: But you know what, you know, people who works hard
Speaker 10: and make a lot of money, they also have a
Speaker 10: right to list someplace nice too. It's okay to help
Speaker 10: them poor people. I do with my money and charity
Speaker 10: and help. But when you work hard, risk invest and
Speaker 10: you've got a family, you should have places you could
Speaker 10: purchase more expensive things and get the benefit of the
Speaker 10: fruits of your labor. And there are some somewhat affordable areas,
Speaker 10: but overall, if you're making any decent money or greater,
Speaker 10: it's a nice place to live and you're buying you know,
Speaker 10: more rich to the right, not as richual over to
Speaker 10: the left nearby, And there's a lot of choices. It's
Speaker 10: for everyone, but it's not for everyone. And that's true
Speaker 10: like Newport Beach and the most expensive areas too. Right,
Speaker 10: there's a different class that could be there. And when
Speaker 10: you're making money to buy a ten million dollar house,
Speaker 10: you got that. The rest of us we've got a irvine.
Speaker 10: I would encourage anybody to really look out of yourself,
Speaker 10: like in person, and just drive around with coffee and
Speaker 10: you'll drive away going, my god, it's so it's just
Speaker 10: so nice. Lots of parking, very organized. I highly recommend it.
Speaker 10: Not the only place in the world to live, but
Speaker 10: definitely should be into consideration.
Speaker 2: It definitely is. And I love that advice too. It's
Speaker 2: something that I want to just do more, is just
Speaker 2: start driving around and start picturing myself in different places
Speaker 2: and you know, could I live here? Go you know,
Speaker 2: instead of typical Saturday just going with the wife and
Speaker 2: the dogs to the usual places we go to, Let's
Speaker 2: go down to one of these cities. Let's see what
Speaker 2: would be like. See if it really, you know, is
Speaker 2: a big change. I love that idea, and Irvine definitely
Speaker 2: on the list. Thank you so much for the call.
Speaker 2: Appreciate it. Irvine is great when I drive down there.
Speaker 2: Getting there is a lot from especially the San Fernando Valley,
Speaker 2: But once you're there, why would you ever want to leave?
Speaker 2: And that's true for so much of Orange County. Maybe
Speaker 2: we just moved the radio station to Orange County and
Speaker 2: then everybody can move down there. You know, come on,
Speaker 2: there's got to be some wealthy real estate magnate in
Speaker 2: Huntington Beach that wants to buy the radio station. Relocate
Speaker 2: everybody down to HB. HB would be great too. I
Speaker 2: also got a ton of emails here. I really appreciate this.
Speaker 2: It's great, Ed writes in Randy. I would go for
Speaker 2: Ventura because of the temperature. Great restaurants, homes don't have
Speaker 2: air conditioners. I still want an ac and you'll be
Speaker 2: close to wine Country and solving. That is true. My
Speaker 2: son and daughter in law lived there, my granddaughter lived there.
Speaker 2: Housing a little expensive but worth it. You know, my
Speaker 2: wife and I do frequent Santa Barbara Wine Country, which
Speaker 2: is two hours from where we are now. But if
Speaker 2: we lived in like the Ventura area, that's like one
Speaker 2: hour away, which means we'd be going to wine Country
Speaker 2: a lot. If Santa Barbara's like a half hour away,
Speaker 2: that would be pretty darn cool. Also, you know, last
Speaker 2: weekend we went to go hang out in Westlake Village,
Speaker 2: which it's gorgeous there, you know, right on the tip
Speaker 2: of Thousand Oaks. I really like that Losa Gaves in
Speaker 2: that big shopping center. We also went to the figure
Speaker 2: Out Mountain Brewing Company, which that's the most southern location
Speaker 2: that they have, but they're big, like in Los of Libos,
Speaker 2: what have you. That is a great brewery. I was
Speaker 2: sitting around there, I was having their hazy IPM like
Speaker 2: we should do a live event here. Maybe we figure
Speaker 2: that out someday. But love that area as well. And
Speaker 2: every time I go somewhere that's not the city of
Speaker 2: La I'm like, Wow, it's so nice. Like there is
Speaker 2: this beauty and splendor that is southern California that I
Speaker 2: don't feel every day. I do not feel it being
Speaker 2: in the middle of the same Fernando Valley. I don't
Speaker 2: feel the quality of life that I know so many
Speaker 2: people have and it's why they pay to be here.
Speaker 2: So I think we're going to figure something out here.
Speaker 2: But thank you all so much for all of the emails.
Speaker 2: Michael writes in I'm thinking Pismo Beach, Grover Beach, or
Speaker 2: Oceano homes are half the price. Someone called it and
Speaker 2: only said Cambria. I really have to check out Cambria.
Speaker 2: We did a show a long time ago which is
Speaker 2: like hidden Gem places to go on road trips, and
Speaker 2: someone mentioned I need to get out there. Do like
Speaker 2: a trip to slow Maybe go to Heymbria, check out
Speaker 2: some of that more central coast area. There's a whole
Speaker 2: This state is massive and there is so much to see,
Speaker 2: and I have seen so little of it, and I
Speaker 2: want to do more about that too. We're already talking
Speaker 2: about some road trips that we want to take next year,
Speaker 2: maybe go around to Tahoe and North State. And you know,
Speaker 2: as I was drinking a Sierra Nevada hazy little thing
Speaker 2: ipa and like, you know, I want to go check
Speaker 2: out Chico, just see what it's like where the big
Speaker 2: Sierra Nevada brewery is. That would be kind of cool.
Speaker 2: I think that there there's a better way to live,
Speaker 2: and a whole bunch of you listening have already figured
Speaker 2: this out way ahead of me. CRP writs in Oxnard,
Speaker 2: what a strange name. Maybe the houses are cheaper thanks
Speaker 2: to the weird name. I think it's named after somebody.
Speaker 2: The weather will be cooler on average than the La Basin. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's why we're thinking of going there this weekend, you know.
Speaker 2: And I'm on constantly on Zillo, usually looking up places
Speaker 2: in Santa Fe. But I am always looking at like, yea,
Speaker 2: what would that cost? You know? And what we're living
Speaker 2: in right now is fairly affordable, but maybe it's worth
Speaker 2: it to pay a little more to have a little
Speaker 2: better quality of life. The commute thing I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: to figure that out. But you know, maybe this radio
Speaker 2: station gets a little more successful and then Randy Wang
Speaker 2: can work remotely full time and then we don't have
Speaker 2: to worry about that one. Hey, have a wonderful, wonderful weekend, everybody.
Speaker 2: It's going to be a jillion degrees, So go somewhere
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