Life in Los Angeles isn't quite as glamorous as Hollywood makes it look

LA Times writer Marjorie Miller describes living in Koreatown, which is a few minutes drive from Hollywood:

When the rooster moved into one of the houses behind ours, it was just one more voice in this robust animal chorus. I asked my next-door neighbor if he had heard the rooster, nervous for a moment that he might say, "What rooster?" He didn't. He and his wife have a new baby, so he's also often up early and had heard the bird.

"Did you see the turkey?" he asked.