California

Step 1: Download an AI matchmaker • Step 2: Publish a 'Date-me doc' • Step 3: Close your laptop and go to a bar

It's supposed to be the 'last free place in America' • In reality, it's a camp in the desert • Fuelled by drugs, crime and lawlessness

Altadena burned worse than the Palisades • It also happened to be poorer • One year on, vultures are circling

Paradise privatised • Rangers overstretched • Terrible burgers

A marijuana nirvana • Corporations roll in • Bud to bust