Imagine you left LA for a long number of years and moved back in the year 2040. What is different? Besides having gray hairs.

For one. I expect it to be on average hotter. I actually expect more migrants because of climate change. So immigration is only going to grow. Climate change has done lots of damage but isn't exactly what many doom sayers have said it would be.

Expect more Asian immigration specifically Chinese immigration as Asia struggles with internal conflict. Obviously though, most migrants are from South America and parts of Latin America as that region has bee one of the hardest hit in the climate crisis.

I actually think there's a chance LA will now have respectable public transportation. It isn't quite Amsterdam but a signifigant portion of the population uses it daily. And with that, the LA metro area is now much more walkable.

Traffic peaked in 2030, and has steadily declined as car ownership has declined. One or two urban highways have been removed and there's now intense discussion of removing more. Automated trucks are common place. There's a signifigant portion of the population however who are resistant to automation and public transportation and just hesitant to give up car ownership.

I don't know what do you think? If you give me a non-serious answer. I kinda accept of it. People just don't want to explore hypotheticals. I'd rather just have fun and ponder. But you know what, okay.