This is becoming increasingly true of LA too. Unless you&#x27;re rent controlled and have been there for a while the price for an apartment is further and further out of reach.<p>There&#x27;s construction everywhere but the price of living in those new buildings is even more than the increasingly expensive older areas and a lot of new construction has begun with what seems like little to no consideration for its impact on traffic.<p>Perhaps developers and the city expect people to use the limited metro system and other public transit but few people, in practice do.<p>I can&#x27;t be that upset though, my wife and I are leaving for the suburbs soon with no plans to come back.<p>There&#x27;s a lot happening in LA in terms of the tech scene, but it&#x27;s not enough to outweigh the overwhelming cost of attempting to put down roots there (home ownership is a largely unobtainable goal, insurance of all kinds is expensive, every neighborhood suffers from traffic congestion and on and on).