However, despite its abundance of parks and outdoor space the city still struggles with poor public transport and clogged motorways.
The county has one small airport, John Wayne, which catered to 7.8m passengers last year, so most of its business passengers struggled along clogged motorways in order to use LAX.
Thousands of new cars spill out of Chinese factories onto its new (and instantly clogged) motorways every day, each needing four tyres, a spare and, eventually, replacements.
Take the Glasto test, even if you have no intention of chugging across clogged motorways for Kaiser Chiefs and St Billy of Bragg in a field named after Tony Benn.
Even as the concert began, thousands more than expected made their way toward the farm, with and without tickets, clogging motorways throughout the state.
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They are the ones clogging the motorways with their rubber necks.
For the most part the Swiss gripe is not about poor, distant immigrants but about rich neighbours driving up house prices and clogging the motorways.
It is part of the festival experience, it seems, to stand freezing and flummoxed on a platform at Newport, to sit on motorways clogged with football fans aiming for Cardiff, or to make a closer acquaintance with country hedgerows than you intended to.
With queues of traffic now frequently clogging the M62 motorway across the Pennines, transport thinking has now turned full circle with better rail links now seen as the way to boost business across the North.
