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You can have live / work communities without shoehorning a $35 billion company and its 2,000 employees into a bunch of retail storefronts originally built as single-family dwellings in the 1920's.

There's plenty of large commercial space nearby in downtown Santa Monica, Culver City and Plays Vista. None of those are the distant industrial parks you allude to. Based on your comment I'm reasonably certain you have zero familiarity with this area.

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I was not attempting to speak to the area. I was speaking to the attitude that nobody's ever happy. Good economy? Things are getting too expensive! Labor/goods are cheap? Everyone's pissed they can't find work! Jobs? Traffic! Unemployment? Poverty!

> into a bunch of retail storefronts

Do the buildings only have 1 floor? It's not hard to have 2 or 3 stories buildings that doesn't look ugly, then the first floor could be retail/restaurants and the floor above it could be companies like Snap.

Using the first floor for anything non retail/restaurants seems like a waste of space

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