If you want to be relatively close to a lot of parks and curb spots, come to Long Beach. Dealing with LB airport is better than dealing with LAX.
You can stay downtown LB, you’ll be near the water. If you skate from DTLB to the dog beach (a couple of miles) via bike path, you’ll hit a curb spot near the ramps up to the cliffs, the scumhole, and at the end, Rosie’s Dog Beach which is a great curb spot. There’s also a Long Beach Curbs thread around somewhere.
In DTLB, there’s a lot of little spots, Lincoln Park Skatepark is new. Not too far close to Poly is McBride Park, there’s the infamous Cherry park closer to the bluffs, and not too far from there is Orizaba park. You can skate to and fro or catch a bus or even nab one of those Bird Scooters that’s all over the area.
For eats, there’s a ton. Black Bar and Good Bar are skate bars. In DTLB you can get BBQ at Beachwood Brewing. There’s Original Thai. There’s a ton there to eat. Also around the area are Pharmacy skate in DTLB, not too far from there on 7th is LB Skate, and not far from there is East 4th Skate. All dope places.