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It's the unskilled labour and basic wage factor. In services, if you are unskilled and the employer can get away with paying the minimum wage, you are earning under $10 per hour. I looked to do some Pro Shop work and teaching at a local Public Golf course while I was there. The same job in...

Hey OO; if you get time, try and do the walk up to the top of Mt. Hollywood at dawn. Stunning on a clear day. It's the peak over to the right of the Hollywood sign; has the Observatory on it.

3rd street, just east of the San Vicente intersection (not far from Cedars Sinai hospital - maybe within a km), on the north side of the road, on the corner of a side street. There is a little trendy cafe there we used to get take-away coffees from now and then. Can't remember the name of it...

"Getting used to it" has nothing to do with it at all. It's purely costs versus profits. I'll guarantee you if the the restaurants here in Aus could get away with charging even more here for their food; they would. In L.A all food is cheap - at the grocery store, the take-away bars and...

The difference I think you'll find is the hourly rate for the staff over there. Typically, the waiters are on minimum wage (or near it) which was about $5.75 when we lived there from '05-'08. Then they get tips on top of that, which are now averaged out over all the staff in many places, but...