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Long Beach
Long Beach is the second most populous city in Los Angeles County and the 5th largest city in the state with a population around 442,000. Aerospace is a major employer. Other local employment includes hospitals and medical, city government, tourism, shipping, manufacturing, high tech and retail.
About 24 miles from downtown Los Angeles, Long Beach is a short drive from business hub Orange County. Long Beach’s light rail service ties into the L.A. Metro and four freeways run through the city. It has its own municipal airport.
Housing varies with a rich architectural heritage of Spanish Mission-style, Victorian and California bungalows side by side sharing neighborhood space. Beach living mixes hi-rises, artists’ colonies, California bungalows and casual apartment living. Most middle class homes have three bedrooms. There are almost twice as many single-family homes as apartments. Crime is average for a city this size.
The Long Beach School District was the first to make school uniforms mandatory. Scores range from low to very high. There are two community colleges and a large state university (Cal State University Long Beach) with 28,000 students.
You’ll never be bored with three performing art centers, four museums, galleries, shopping, restaurants and movie theatres. Sports fans can cheer for their own hockey team, the Ice Dogs or the Grand Prix.
Get some exercise at the 62 parks, 40 tennis courts, miles of bicycle trails or hoofing it through the Queen Mary. The once ocean liner is now a 365 room hotel with daily tours, restaurants, wedding chapel and ballroom.
A newly opened 150,000 square foot state-of-the-art aquarium attracts all ages. And speaking of water, the state’s largest owned marina has 3,400 boat slips, harbor cruises and romantic gondola rides in Naples.
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