Michael Cohen

People's landscaping had grown back.

We passed a little bench for kids to wait for school.

The house numbers were still painted on the curb.

I could imagine the kind of neighborhood that he told us had been here.

Lots of cute little homes close together, shaded by trees, kids running around on Mike's cul-de-sac street.

It was clearly emotional for Mike to be back, even almost a year later.

And we used to walk our dog up here.

There's like next to no sidewalks in Altadena, but there's also not a lot of traffic because it has this kind of funny little small town feel.

So everybody just walks their dogs on the road.

And the mountains used to be like gorgeous in the morning and covered in green.

It sounds like for both of you,

Altadena had a draw, and I'd like you to explain in your own words what that draw was for you to move to Altadena.

For me, it was community.

The community of Altadena was the people who lived on the same block

the friends we had who'd lived in Altadena for years, who lived walking distance.

It was Farnsworth Park, which was the park at the top of the hill that we would take the dog to every night.

And unofficially, of course, it is not a dog park, but about 20 different other Altadena folks would show up and we'd all let our dogs run around and catch up and ask about, I don't know, the weather and who's seen the peacocks and who had a bear sleep in their backyard.

And it had this kind of mix of old and new.

And there were people who had been there for generations.

There were people who, because it's an unincorporated town, it meant that there were like certain rules and laws that didn't apply.