I've always lived in places that weren't really conducive to bike riding, sadly! Mainly at the moment because I think you have to have no sense of your own safety to be riding bikes in my neighborhood because lots of blind curves + really narrow roads that people drive really fast all over the road on = oh god I think I need more armor for that. Even walking to the grocery store would be a bad idea, because it's a really busy road with no sidewalk and a lot of places where the bushes reach the side of the road so you have to wait for a break in traffic to go around them.

SoCal sucks for anything other than cars, seriously.