Five Per Cent of The Old Home Town

Most of you know how The Great Plotnik feels about 95% of his old home town. But there are places he loves, and Venice Beach is one of them. So, how did Dave the Blue manage to move into an apartment on the beach, where all he has to do is place his camera on his balcony railing and take these photos?

Venice Beach, Santa Monica Canyon, The Dodgers, The Lakers, EPark, Watts Towers, The Gamble House, Griffith Park Observatory, Mission San Fernando, Olvera Street, the hobo trails in Elysian Park...that's around 5%, isn't it?