@Grouch
I know that Cali is not to your liking, I lived there when a visit to LA became an extended stay then left. Why? Because it went to shit with MS13 gangbangers that specialize in murder for hire. I got sick of the Salvadorans, though a gang leader befriended me after I saved his little brother from going to prison by disarming him from behind unloading the clip when he was going to shoot somebody telling him he should thank me for saving him from prison time. Then the two brothers approached me two days later to thank me and treated me as a friend. I manage to earn respect in wildest West because I also manage to survive at the furthest coast away from it growing up ghetto as fuck and with combat skills otherwise I'd be dead since high school infested with gang members I beat to a pulp jumping me 12-to-1. There used to be honor amongst thieves in the 90s, they could have shot me but didn't because I went undefeated dispatching their entire gang without breaking a sweat whether it was one at a time or all of them at once, they were YLO. Would prove them to be pussies resorting to guns that can't defeat me in a fight and they'd lose their street cred. Nowadays the gangbangers are just like the cops with guns killing whoever they can't defeat unarmed. In the end the opposing Latin Kings gang leader was impressed and asked me to join, I said no because everyone already knows who is leader in the hood and I don't need a crew. So he ended up coming over to my house to play NES with me on the regular, he liked Pinbot most and we'd play Baseball Stars 2 two player. It was odd because he was acting like a kid and opened up to me about his struggles and feelings, though the whole time the dude had a menacing permeable aura of abject evil. I'm Chaotic Neutral and can accept anyone until they fuck with me, my family or my friends. Depends on who gets their ass handed to them not knowing who the fuck I am be they evil or good.
So, this country's Metropolitan areas are full of cowards starting with the cops and ending with the criminals nowadays, no reason to single out California or Miami with coast-to-coast for-profit prisons of mansex salad tossing wannabe thugs stocked by mansex rainbow with a thin blue line cop wannabes. It's 50 disgraces not one.
Edit:// on a side note the Latin Kings leader cleaned up and settled down with kids as a good father then he was run over saving his son from being killed by criminals sent flying hit by the getaway vehicle and hitting his head on a cement parking divider dying in the hospital. His name was Javier but I don't remember his last name.