those large houses in the "hood" and they are perfectly fine with it...i'm in the 30s in the avenues and 3 white families have bought nice large older homes on my street and they love it here...i think South LA has a very bad reputation bcz of gangs and shit, but its really not as bad as some areas of the valley...Now sure there are some hoods i'm just not going to live in...but say the normandie florence area..gets a bad rap..and some parts are perfectly fine..same as over here in the avenues