When I first moved here, I heard this line and didn't really buy into it at first. But the longer I live here, the truer it rings.
Going to the beach is sort of a 365-day a year thing for us. It's (very nearly) always nice, which means we have myriad options. If it's not the beach, we've got great hiking trails, and skiing is a 2-hr drive away. Central coast wine country is a shorter drive from my house than Stubhub Stadium. There are three dozen live venues that can support international-level entertainment. If a sportsball team has a rough patch mid-season, they're irrelevant. If they go through years of struggle? People forget they exist. USC used to be covered like an NFL team by local media; since two actual NFL teams got here, the program is losing SoCal recruits to frickin' AZ State. (I think this year they had 0 or 1 5-star recruits)
And it's not just that the people here are transplants, the teams are, too. The Dodgers and Lakers came here from thousands of miles away; the Raiders came here chasing free money, and went back from whence they came 25 years ago, and they are still far and away the most popular NFL team among Angelenos; the Rams came here from Cleveland, played 15 years in Anaheim, then moved to Missouri for two decades; the Clippers (whatever
that is) started life in New York. The Kings are OG to LA, and it took them winning 2 chips in 3 years (or whatever it was) for them to get real traction in terms of a fanbase, and not just a collection of 16,000 people hoping to see Tom Hanks rinkside at the Forum while the most famous player in the history of the game spent ten years not winning Cups.
The only thing that'll get them is the chance to host a Super Bowl...
Already on the books. Superb Owl LVI will be played on February 6, 2022, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA.