Sam is right about the City of Studio. It's always been a fairly quiet, small neighborhood with quaint rather than large houses. Then these entitled TV and movie people took it over as theirs, buying quaint charming homes and ripping them down and putting up awful, faceless, and disgusting houses that ruined the face of this once charming nabe. It should not have been allowed, frankly, but there's no way to stop it, unfortunately. And yes, when you bring that kind of thing into a nabe then crime follows. I think that's why we've been having the nightly dance of the police helicopters. Of course, I hope they catch the people perpetrating the crimes and I hope they off them on the spot for making people's lives miserable, especially during the holiday season. It's truly disgusting. But the oafs have themselves to blame. Why couldn't they stay in Sherman Oaks or Encino, where the houses ARE big and stately and, you know, even original to the neighborhood.
