Headin' South - a plea for advice/help

[Not Afraid]

I like San Pedro. It's very isolated (although a major freeway runs to it making it MUCH more accessable than the South Bay) and on the coast, which is a big plus. There are some really great areas and some really bad areas (as with most urban environments). It is definately a "working class" town with the commercial and budy industrial Port of Los Angeles & Long Beach/Alamedia Corridor/Oil Refineries all surrounding it (as well as the tony Palos Verdes/Rolling Hills to the North West). There is an arts scene present since they converted Ft. MacArthur to house artist studios and an art "colony". There is no mass transit to the area. It would be worth looking into at least.