I can honestly say that I hadn't seen failure until I saw Los Angeles failure. I again suspect it's due to the fundamental impedance of the place; thenewgreen was in town a couple days ago and I missed him because it would have been 90 minutes and $40 in a Lyft (and I had had 3 hours of sleep and needed to be up at 5am). Public transportation? It would have been four hours. Biking? Two hours across turf where I have never been closer to dying. The dude spends two hours each way in traffic for a job that pays $18 an hour. And he's 150 lbs overweight which makes everything impossible. I realized last year that he basically goes through life like me... If I had to carry my wife on my back everywhere I went. At which point you're gonna do what with your free time, exactly? You're going to cocoon.