LOL! I love southern California - or at least I did. I spent two years there in the late 70s. Moonbeam was STILL in charge! As well as Mayor Yorty.
Imagine what you remember but severely overcrowded with a decaying housing stock filled by aliens from every part of the Third World. Sort of like The Shire overrun by Orcs.
...and the Stupid Party can’t figure out why Reagan Country became ObamaLand..