We live in LA, yup our choice, nobody forced us to, it's alright, having a nice enough time I guess.
Since we've been here friends and family have visited, we've been really clear that we would love to have people stay as long as they like but appreciate it's a long way to go and they might want more holiday for their mileage so friends particularly tend to fly in, stay a few days, road trip to SanFran/Vegas/wherever then spend the last few days with us (never enough time though for me!)
We have had I think 4 friends now who have taken holidays to California flown in and out of LA who we haven't seen at all - not even for a quick coffee. I am so upset and hurt and I know this is totally my issue because they're on holiday, they can do what they want with their time - but we live only a 20min drive from the airport, have always offered to pick people up (much cheaper to rent cars in the city than from the airport), just sad that they can travel so far then not make the last 20mins!!
Some of them aren't massively close but I just miss home a lot, and of course they're not to know that. But a close friend has just been to Vegas (ok, it's q 4hour drive or a 1hour flight), I would totally have offered to pay for her flight to visit us etc etc but only know she was even on my side of the world because of facebook and she told me "she really tried to come but just couldn't manage it in the end". Bollocks if you were really going to try to come then you would have said so in advance surely?
IABU but I don't care. Am sleep deprived and sad and miss my friends.