Worm claims:
Many wondered how Morrissey survived there, but he tapped into the same thing those happy Angelenos have. Namely, there's tremendous freedom. It's largely a blank canvas. You can do what you like and carve out your own niche-- although nothing will save you from the traffic.
Turning to the facts,
Morrissey told us:
Los Angeles is...essentially a police state. The city belongs to the police, no one else. Everywhere you go there are police - watching, watching, and waiting for any reason - for no reason - to jump on people. Consequently, the people of Los Angeles are very nervous about everything - about parking their car, about driving too slowly, about crossing the road the wrong way, about sneezing without a permit, etc. If you walk down a street humming in Los Angeles you are immediately considered to be suspicious. Once you're arrested, the courts always support whatever the police say regardless of what that is. In Rome, the police are very casual, and they don't threaten people because they seem to quite rightly think that most people don't actually intend to break the law. This gains the police respect. In Los Angeles, the police believe that everyone is guilty of intending to commit a major crime - to know is to be guilty,etc. Rome has struck me as being a very safe city, and not at all uptight, which is a contrasting relief against the pressures of Los Angeles.
Quite a contrast between Worm's imagination and Morrissey's dreadful reality.
Normally I would think the above rant is just Morrissey spouting off again, but we have read the newspapers:
LA Times:
The Los Angeles Police Department's expanding corruption scandal is the worst to strike the force since the 1930s--an era when mayors were crooks and L.A. cops were bagmen and bombers.
AP:
One of the largest police corruption scandals in the city's history has yielded revelations of officers dealing drugs, planting guns on innocent people and even a suggestion that one helped plan the murder of a rap star.
But perhaps most surprising of all is the lack of community outrage in a city that spawned virulent riots in 1992 and 1965 after perceived police misconduct.
"I don't know what it is about L.A.," said Ramona Ripston, executive director of the Southern California American Civil Liberties Union. "I'm shocked by the lack of response."
More.
No, no outrage from the good people of Southern California, even after that city became an emabarassment to the entire country as we watched their racial riots and OJ Simpson trials. Instead they'll tell us how much more "freedom" there is in L.A. compared with the rest of the country!
Morrissey lived in L.A. strictly out of convenience and it nearly ruined his career. Buying a house there was an unplanned accident while he fled England due to lawsuits and media harassment. Yes, it makes sense that someone in showbiz would temporarily reside there out of convenience, but happy he was not. He went nearly a decade without releasing a single song while locked up inside his Los Angeles mansion in misery. He finally managed to force out one album during his L.A. ordeal, then sold his house, moved to Rome, and tells us he's never been happier.
Morrissey's main co-songwriter may prove unable to survive the L.A. hell. When we found him again on the Craig Kilborn show to perform an early version of "First of the Gang to Die", Alain shocked us by looking overweight and depressed. In recent years he's had a constant struggle with mysterious ailments, most likely suicidal depression. He tried forming a Los Angeles band, Red Lightning, and none of his talents were evident. They have disbanded. Boz, whom I believe spends much time in Spain and plays music in all kinds of nice out of the way towns when not on tour with Morrissey, has not gone off his rails like Alain did.
If you want true freedom, I'd say your best bet is a beautiful state such as Wyoming. Or, if you're more adventurous, Alaska. If you want to be around nice, down to earth, truly individualistic people, I'd recommend a friendly, quirky state like Wisconsin, where thinking for yourself is still part of the genetic code. If you're a pussy about the cold, find the warmer equivalants of such decent, happier places where one can exist away from most of the rampant suckage and sucky people.
If you wanna brush up against the so-called "beautiful people" and you don't mind getting a permit before you can sneeze, by all means move to Los Angeles and hope the cops don't plant shit on ya while you're going to all the trendy "hot spots".
Worm tells us:
If you're in film and TV, your favorite spots would likely be mine, although I am just a fan
Morrissey has told us the other reason he fled L.A. It was because of the
constant, horrendous
stalking by celebrity-obsessed Southern Californian fans. Lord knows his privacy would've been far more respected by, say, people from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Let's see what else?? Oh yeah, the smog. It sucks....but your prob use to it. If I think of anything else...I'll let you know! Oh yeah, and the food is good! Some great restuarants. 
