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To die for? More likely to kill me with that horrid pattern and color on the chairs.

But. I do love that table and have been looking for one just like it! Would work wonderfully in an entirely different room.

But LA and SF are in the same time zone!

Studio City is exactly this kind of neighborhood - I can walk to anything/everything within a block or two, from bookstores to Trader Joes to a fab bakery and an extensive wine shop. I even have one of the best cheese shops in LA around the corner! It is really the idea of being able to have access to all of this and know the shop owners in my neighborhood that you don't have a lot of other places. I would love to move further up Laurel Canyon into the hills, but I don't think I could leave this neighborhood. I would not go north of the 101 though, or west of the 405. I would live in WeHo because it seems to have the same local community vibe, but the parking and general crowdedness is not something we have to deal with here.

Unfortunately it is changing. They are tearing down all of the pre-war apartments and building condos, condos, condos. The whole feeling of the neighborhood is being ruined - in fact I don't know the neighbors in the new buildings at all, and I used to know everyone. The people in the condos seem to have a different attitude of being locked in their buildings, where the people in the old apartments are always out in our courtyards or in the front yards talking to each other, playing with our dogs. If it continues to change I will be forced to leave and that will break my heart.

And while it is just a bit more relaxed than the other side of the canyon, but I hate to break it to you: it is part of LA proper. We are the City of LA! What isn't LA - West Hollywood. Separate municipality, actually. Bev Hills too, and Santa Monica. But as far as LA and "the valley" - we're all in this together!