Just done it
Just completed PPL in Socal....LA region.
Know a number of good people and if you want to do the course with a Brit...have a friend CFI there in KTOA ready to go.
2 weeks should be OK, if you have the availability. Also down by the coast there is less effect from the dreaded Santa Ana's..just some morning caostal mist rolling in......
PM and I can send you details and contacts.....