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Newcomer's Handbook For Moving To And Living In Los Angeles: Including Santa Monica, Pasadena, Orange County, And The San Fernando Valley (Newcomer's Handbooks) - Softcover

Wai, Joan

 
9780912301600: Newcomer's Handbook For Moving To And Living In Los Angeles: Including Santa Monica, Pasadena, Orange County, And The San Fernando Valley (Newcomer's Handbooks)

Synopsis

Moving to Los Angeles has never been easier! Expanded to include Orange County, the fourth edition of the Newcomer s Handbook for Moving to and Living in Los Angeles extensively covers communities from Santa Clarita to Newport Beach, from Malibu to Pasadena, and neighborhoods and cities in-between. The fourth edition also presents essential sections on Finding a Place to Live, Moving and Storage, Matters, Getting Settled, Helpful Services, Childcare and Education, Shopping for the Home, Cultural Life, Sports and Recreation, Greenspace and Beaches, Places of Wor, Volunteering, Transportation, Emergency Preparedness, Temporary Lodgings, and Quick Getaways. In addition, a handy calendar of LA events, a listing of LA-related guidebooks, fiction, and nonfiction, and a directory of useful phone numbers and web sites round out this indispensable book. A set of six maps an LA overview, plus five area maps guide the reader to communities, ways, and points of interest. In addition to being thoroughly fact-checked, updated, and revised, the fourth edition includes such new material as: Orange County communities, focusing on Newport Beach, Irvine, and Tustin An Immigrant Newcomers section A Literary Life section A thorough discussion of intrastate and interstate moves and consumer complaints

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