If you hate LA so much, then why didn’t you move out at some point? I get it if you had a job and that’s why you moved to the city in the first place, but there could’ve been a chance that you would’ve had a new job offer and from there you could move to anywhere else that you think is better than LA.
I mean I used to live in Michigan and when the 2008 recession happened, the mid-west was hit hard and it especially hurt Michigan’s economy. Because of that I moved to CT and lived there for 6 years until it became more expensive to live in and now I live in TN, where it has a much cheaper cost of living. Since many Californians are moving out in droves because Cali is becoming crazy expensive, wouldn’t that be a convenient opportunity to move out and live somewhere else?
My situation is vastly different from yours, I can see that just from the way you speak about moving. It’s something you actually had the means to do in the past, more than once. I never, ever had those means.
Never had the chance. I’ve never been financially or mentally stable enough to do so, and some kind of family commitment has been ever-present in my life for twenty years or more.
(1992) College (partially complete) -> Job (paycheck to paycheck) -> Mental health and addiction issues -> Marriage -> Aging parents (my mom, then my dad, then her dad; dementia, cancer, etc.) -> Wife also begins battling cancer -> More mental health issues (though the addiction is under control) -> Here I am.
See above. “Get the hell out,” is a cool sentiment I sometimes fantasize about but it’s not feasible in the real world. I have so little money in my life I don’t even utilize a bank, and I have family members living their last months here. As the people I speak of pass on, they will leave behind them a 78-year-old with memory problems, and a 75-year-old who is a moderately-functioning autistic. The responsibility for their well-being will pass to my wife and I to ensure.
All of that takes precedence over my dislike for this city. And honestly, my little neighborhood here is nice - if not a bit neglected by city services. There are good people living around here.
Leaving is something I am clearly not opposed to, though! 
If one day I am able to work again, or the family properties and such filter down into our hands (my family’s assets were squandered by a relative but my wife’s family’s assets still exist), then I will beat a clear path out of here in a nanosecond.
Probably back to Hawaii, I’d really love to live in Hilo again. Either that or Canada, or the UK if money were no object.