All the suburbs close to the city of LA are just as crowded, congested, and have the same problems as the city of LA. Most of the time you can't tell if you're in a different city or not unless you look at the different colored street signs or see a different patrol unit cruising by. The traditional spacious, white picket fence, good school, and nice area suburbs are way way way thirty miles out type shyt. I got tons of fam in Chicago and I used to go out there quite often. Most of them grew up on the westside and in Maywood but now they got nice houses out in Romeoville and Bolingbrook which I considered really nice shyt. In LA you gotta drive far asf to get to those types of suburbs. Inglewood, Compton, Santa Monica, LB, Hawthorne, South Gate, Pasadena, etc, are technically suburbs of LA but in reality they're straight city shyt and everything that it encompasses