coming from a big city, or the Northeast, LA culturally is tough for a lot of transplants,

but you coming from Charlotte, which is I am assuming more suburban in feel (since you said you got a house and all that), I think the pace will suit you fine

Also yes, the traffic is as bad as everyone says it is, but there's now an app called Waze that will give you real-time updates on traffic. My homegirl who lives in DTLA and works in Hollywood (reverse direction for most morning commuters although it's still bad) swears by it.

But where your people in LA live?

You looking for centralized location, peripheral location, suburban location?