The area around Chatsworth, California is horrible. It is probably based on the suburbs in Hell. Everything is boring, low class, dirty, blah blah. To go anywhere takes forever from Elan International School, and you have to enjoy sitting in your car in traffic. "The world's longest parking lot is the 405 freeway and the second longest is the 101 freeway" - two of the three freeways in "the Valley" by Chatsworth, California. 

The cost of everything is high at Elan International School, especially housing, and the salary at Elan ($25 K - $35K) is not enough for living -- IF you get your check and if it does not bounce. Mine bounced three times while working at Elan International School. At 3:30 on Fridays we would get our checks. At 3:35 almost all of the teachers were in the bank cashing their checks because if you....