Los Angeles Relocation Guide - Antevia

According to the local newspaper, the Daily Breeze, the pier area used to be heavilycrowded with tourists and locals during the 1970s. It began to decline after the nearbySeaport Village project failed and went into bankruptcy in 1982, and went into free fallwhen the pier burned down in 1988. Subsequent attempts to resuscitate the area's formerpopularity have been hindered by the need to comply with California CoastalConservancy regulations, and the concurrent success of redevelopment projects in thetwo other Beach Cities, Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach, and also in the nearby cityof Torrance.The city's territory has an unusual shape because it controls a long block of land dividingthe two other beach cities (Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach) from the inland city ofTorrance. This is why Redondo Beach is the western terminus of the Metro Rail GreenLine even though at first glance it appears on a map to be far from Interstate 105 (theGreen Line's main route).Redondo beach's primary High school is the Redondo Union High SchoolLifestyleRedondo Beach is the focus of many who want to be in the sun and near the ocean.Although a vibrant community in its own right, much of the Redondo Beach lifestyle is ablend of the neighborhoods, activities and people of the three Beach Cities of SouthernCalifornia's South Bay. Like its sister cities of Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach,Redondo's key lifestyle draw is the vast beach that links these three cities.Beach LifestyleEvidence of the Southern California beach lifestyle abounds: athletic, tanned peopleenjoying the nearly 300 unbroken days a year of sunshine; bars, restaurants, shops andparks.A wide sand beach starts below the bluffs of Palos Verdes in the south and carries northto the Redondo Pier. A paved path, called The Strand runs from South Redondo north toSanta Monica. A typical day on this path will see thousands of people on foot, bicycle,skateboard, rollerblade, wheelchair and stroller enjoying the sun and surf. The continuouspath is broken only by the massive and omnipresent Redondo Beach King Harbor Marinaand Pier complex, where it veers away from water and onto dedicated lanes of surfacestreets for about a mile before again turning to the ocean in Hermosa Beach. Continuingnorth from Manhattan Beach, this path stretches well into Marina Del Rey and beyondwith few breaks.Surfing is a key element of the South Bay lifestyle year-round; it is common to see localscatching waves on both Christmas and New Year's Day. Powerful winter storms in thePacific ocean can turn typically placid and rolling South Bay waves into large andoccasionally dangerous monsters...a natural draw for the local surfing population. Localwave heights in December 2005 were some of the largest on record and were reported to