Avoid Moving to Torrance California Unless You Can Handle These 7 Things

Even with all this Torrance is still a great place to live. Which neighborhood in Torrance would you like a breakdown of?

As a third generation California native, I’ve always found the earthquakes, a bit fun, including the minute long violent shaker of the Whittier earthquake, which I experienced in Whittier. The buildings are built to stave off shakers per Law. This New York native does not have a depth of California love and comes across as someone who should be running around Walmart screeching at people.

Grew up in Torrance! South high school graduate ❤ great place to live!

I live in West Torrance & agree with everything u said💕 I would add that there are more & more homeless in the South Bay every year. You were SPOT ON with everything u said😘

really nice video, last year i was an exchange student and I happened to be collocated in Torrance. I lived there for six months and I personally think that most of the downsides you've pointed out are actually true, still being an amazing place to stay tho. For example, coming from Milan, one of the most polluted areas in Europe, Torrance's air quality seemed like a breeze for me, in the meantime, the fact that I couldn't go anywhere without a car really influenced my experience, comparing to Europe where most of the big cities are based on driving limitations to allow people to walk more. Also, the fact that everything seemed so far apart from my place disturbed me a little. Talking about school, teachers where very nice, even if I expected harder tests or subjects. Despite that, I had the time of my life there and I'd really want to come back, considering the fact that no place is hundred percent perfect, and I miss Torrance's weather so much!!! have a good day<3

No mention of Toyota moving their US headquarters out of Torrance, CA to Texas and taking a lot of supporting business with them. California is not business friendly. Torrance is also west of a large oil refinery and areas full of people living in dilapidated motor homes. Drive east of Torrance not just west and south experience this.

Thank you kindly. You re an eloquent and down to earth effective speaker. I enjoyed your insights and knowledge on Torrance. I am now considering Encinitas instead.

Having grown up there in the 60s and 70s, I'd go along with most of this. It was a lot like the Wonder Years, but as you sequed into your teens, Borrance was a term you could relate to. Two things I'd strongly disagree with, however. Compared with the natural disaster's the rest of the country and the world faces, earthquakes are a very occasional nuisance.(they're actually kind of exciting). To my knowledge, no one has lost their life to an earthquake in Torrance for at least the 60 years of my lifetime. As for the weather, well, if you want seasons, yeah, it's not the place for you, but if nearly year round T shirt in the daytime seems a burden, then I really don't know what to tell you. If you like doing outdoor stuff, then there's hardly a day where the weather will interfere or even has to be considered. As for the chilliness of May Gray and June Gloom, she's overblown it by a mile. It's just frustrating because you're anxious for real summer to begin. I swim bareback in the ocean year round here: the water dips into the high 50s in winter and spring, but it really isn't that bad--very doable. It's a suburb primarily built postwar centered around cars and big housing tracts for defense workers. It's kinda bland, but it has perfect weather--in my view--and it's safe. If her caveats really bother you, then coastal Southern California really isn't for you because it's pretty much the same story from LA to the border.

Walkable is more for city living not suburbs

hello, i was wondering if you knew of any abandoned places in torrance maybe near Del Amo Mall. I live here and my friends and i are so bored with just going for bike rides and staying at home. we want to explore abandoned building and unfinished construction that were never fully built. Thank You!😁

Thanks for so many details about Torrance! Is that possible to have a compare list between Redondo Beach and Torrance on the six items you just talked in the video to see any difference between these cities? I have heard that there were a lot of wells in Torrance area which may have environmental or earthquake concerns for living there. Also for Redondo beach, someone says the air is smelly in the area near the industry facilities. Are these true?

I was born in Torrance California didn't know much about it as a kid I was only there about five years and never once got to go to go to Disneyland

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I live up in north Torrance and I can say if your looking to be more near the freeway or have more races in the area north is pretty much the way to go. If you live in south Torrance you'll just see straight up white people. If you go West Torrance still straight up Whites but you'll also see a lot of Asians. Old Torrance is still a lot of whites but you do see more Hispanics and blacks the closer you are to Western Blvd. North is where you see African American's, Hispanic's, Whites, Asians, and Muslim's and Indians and all that. You basically got a lot of races and ethnicities over here. In North Torrance we do have a lot of apartments mainly around 182nd, Crenshaw, and Yukon. We are next to the Torrance Refinery so I can say the air is more polluted over here. But I can say one thing and that is that in Torrance there isn't much to really do like its pretty boring and stuff not much happens. You don't really got anything much to do at night if your like younger in your 20's. The city itself is more or less just a place where people like to settle down and stuff but I can say this, Redondo is better looking then Torrance but is way more expensive but if your looking for not so higher prices try Hawthorne, Inglewood and Gardena one of the 3 neighboring and close cities.

You didn’t mention the influx of homeless in nearly all the parks, bus bench’s, parking lots and on the streets.

Torrance is bad. A lot of pretentious people and homeless. Awful special education for kids (the worst was Torrance high). Everywhere you see is a godam Mcdonalds, 7-11, strip malls. Big malls, gas stations oil refineries all mixed in with suburban houses and apartments. Expensive af too. California also taxes you for driving on the roads and if you want to move out the state you get taxed. It’s pretty much a dystopia trying to look like a utopia but that’s pretty much everywhere in cali

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Don’t forget the racism towards blacks and Hispanics

Being fair skinned I love all the gloom and discourages all the non-Natives from crowding the beaches I’ve been here 65 years and the city will never be as nice as when I grew up in the Sixties and Seventies.