Enjoy Tennyson, what's left of it. We used to go there. Now, not so much. I took your comment seriously because in my field of classical music, LA is definitely a cultural hotbed. Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic, a brand new high quality music school, and a host of forward-thinking arts initiatives make it a very real leader. Ditto SF, though not SD. 

I spent 16 years in California and loved it. We'd move back in a minute but for affordability, our ages, and the multiple risk variables of drought and earthquake.