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“They even have a few chassidish families.” A few Chassidishe families?!?!? Los Angeles’ Beverly-La Brea and Hancock Park districts have quite a large Chassidishe population and growing! And regarding cost of living and rents: Rents are no more than Boro Park and Kosher food is the same price as Brooklyn, Lakewood, Monsey etc. Los Angeles is a great place for Chassidishe family…and any orthodox family to move to. We have plenty of everything: schools, kosher restaurants, Hatzolah, Chaverim, Misaskim, Shmira, Bikur Cholim, Tomchei Shabbos and so many other community support agencies one finds on the east coast!
The Hancock Park-Beverly-La Brea District in Los Angeles is a great neighborhood for Chasidishe, Litvish and other Ultra-Orthodox folks. Many great Kollelim, Yeshivas and elementary Schools in the area. Kollel Yechiel Yehuda (a Chasidishe Kollel) has been around for years and has produced many great guys as well as the Los Angeles Kollel (Litvish.) Like a couple of other people have mentioned, we have just about every Jewish Orthodox Service that Boro Park or Williamsburg has like Hatzolah, Shomrim, Chaverim, Tomchei Shabbos, Misaskim, RCCS, Bikur Cholim, Shmira etc, etc. Sure, if you want to buy a hous it’ll be around 1 million (sometimes less) but there are plenty of nice rentals available. Kosher food is NOT more expensive than Brooklyn. All kinds of great Jewish schools for the kinderlach Bais Yaakov, Chasidishe schools of at all levels. The Chasidishe Community is large and is growing incredibly quickly (I speak more of Chasidishe because that’s where I am from.) Pico-Robertson is also another Jewish Neighborhood, but nowhere as nice as Hancock Park-Beverly La Brea and there’s also Valley Village that has a large Orthodox population as well. DEFINITELY look into Los Angeles…I have not met anyone who has moved out here that is sorry that they did. I hope this helps!!
The concept that there is a detrimental “Extreme open-mindedness” in Los Angeles’ frum communities is a dated opinion and is just WRONG! I lived in Boro Park and now live in L.A. and people here are just as committed as they are in Boro Park. Lots of serious people in Los Angeles dedicated to Torah lifestyle and learning, important, well-respected rabbaim here.