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As much as I like living in the Los Angeles area, it IS far too close for comfort to a bunch of really scary stuff. There was a firebombing around five miles west of where I live during one of the anti-Trump protests, for example. I've never heard gunfire in the streets, thankfully, but I've been stuck waiting behind a police barricade on the highway, and I've had to learn to ignore the sound of police helicopters circling.