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Fun area for short-term. Upsides is it's a very fun, young, hip trendy area with a lot of cool stuff to do. Downsides are traffic/parking is impossible to deal with (if you can't find a place to live without a garage, don't bother - seriously), it's insanely overpriced (and that's by overpriced CA RE standards) and it's filled with the most pretentious self-absorbed, stuck-up snobs on the planet. Good-looking gals are abundant but if you don't have a bank account with $10million or more in it, you don't have a chance of doing anything other than going home and whacking off at night, so don't try.

Yes, I used to live on the west side myself, yes it was a lot of fun while it lasted and no, I don't regret leaving there - I doubt I'd ever live there again. Been there, done that. But if you have the opportunity to do it (especially on someone else's dime) go for it. It'll be a fun few months.