[ng12]

I feel like the author covered this pretty well. If you have the luxury to organize your life around the terrible traffic (e.g. living and working in Venice) it's fantastic. If you need to get on a highway to get to work your experience will probably be much worse.

[timavr]

Sure, but if I can work from home in Malibu, it is a sweet deal too.

But for most people in LA, it is not the case.