Literally, several tops comments are people not understanding that humans beings have different life experiences. Like straight up people assuming everyone knows what LA is like because THEY know what LA is like.
Yeah, and I wouldn't really call Gary a city. More like an abandoned small town that's been half empty for decades. A city of 3.8 million ppl is a very different thing from a town of 70k. Just driving through Gary you feel like you escaped something.
I don't think it's the worst or even really bad by most measures but I sure as shit hate it. I grew up in NorCal and have a lot of family down in LA so spent basically a good chunk of every summer down there. Now I live in Chicago and you couldn't get me to live in LA for four times the salary I make now and I could afford LA already on my salary.
Unlike most of the toddlers in this thread I understand that's just due to my personal preferences though and not because of some intrinsic and objective horribleness of LA.
Probably because LA county is huge with a ton of smaller cities in between. One person’s experience can be totally different due to where in LA they live and how much money they make.
Plenty of liberals hate LA because they watch too much TV and thought that jokes about LA from New York-based writers fueling a one-sided rivalry was "real", or because they live in places like Austin and think they can compete/are jealous.
How so? Last I heard downtown Detroit had become a cool place to visit, but anything other than downtown (specially the outskirts of Detroit) was still nasty.
Never been to Detroit, but from what I see on TV and stuff, the parts that aren't completely fucked are gentrified to shit, which is cool to some, but not to a lot lol
That's true, but when the original folks that lived there get gradually kicked out because they can't afford to live there anymore, it doesn't really matter what the money does for a neighborhood of upper class hipsters
Based on, what? How far your head is up your own ass?
Or because Redditors are sheltered, anxious, shaking, developmentally arrested basement dwellers who find the concept of a car existing to be terrifying?
Large crime and homeless problems, a generally asshole filled culture that promotes vanity, some of the worst air quality in the states, little to no economic opportunity compared to NYC, Chicago, any of the Texan cities, Denver, San Diego, etc., and while I personally have no problem with car based cities, LA traffic is by far the worst I have ever witnessed.
LA sucks has been a cliche, true or not, since at least the 70s. It’s not an owning the libs opinion, just something a lot of people feel for various reasons.
Hollywood is amazing. Just avoid the walk of fame. The food in Hollywood is incredible right now, and if you go north into the Hollywood foothills area? It's beautiful.
It's gotta have the worst traffic and I know for a fact it has the most homelessness per capita... It has the best homeless services in the West side of the USA, so homeless flock there from all over. Even from other states.
My friend who lives in LA often complains that it takes him over an hour to go one mile during rush hour.
Idk if they'll link it, but if it's the one that I've seen referenced in other threads, then a big flaw in the study is that the answers are self-reported. I.e. they issued a survey and homeless people answered themselves, and there's a decent incentive to lie.
They won't link shit, but I do know the stats off the top of my head: about one in five of the current homeless population in LA was homeless either upon arriving in LA, or before getting to LA. Another one in five was homeless within their first 6 months living here (AKA: probably never had the job prospects or financial security to move here).
Yes, a percentage are local, but the percent of people from somewhere else is much higher than the places that bus homeless. No is bussing homeless to flyover country
Yeah traffic does suck, but its a symptom of too many people living here lol. Its the same w house prices, homelessness and etc. You dont really get much traffic in places that people dont want to live
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u/karjacker Jul 11 '23
LA not even close to the worst, wtf are you talking about lmao