LC is a tough market to crack. My wife and I just did a hard 9 month push applying for lots of jobs in SW LA. We are highly qualified science and engineering types, but generated very little interest because our skills did not exactly align with current needs in the petroleum and chemical industries and we were not living sufficiently local to do the networking thing.
LC has not really outpaced the rest of the country or the state in job or population growth over the past 2, 5, 10, or 20 year intervals. Most jobs in communities with relatively stagnant job and population growth are filled by locals rather than out of towners, and usually longer term locals at that.
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