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Go ahead and look at how the freeways are designed. Altadena to Silver Lake in about 20 minutes takes advantage of the fact the 2 is a stub freeway that only gets backed up when some catastrophic car accident happens. Its a huge region and driving across it seems daunting, but hardly anyone does that regularly. Average commutes are 30 minutes about the same as anywhere else. There's enough redundancy within the region where you rarely feel the need to venture out of your little 5-10 mile sphere of influence, since all your boxes are already checked within that bubble. Other cities its more common to be traveling back and forth across town, but there's no need for that here. You hardly need to leave your neighborhood most of the time.