Los Angeles Blues...

grad studentgrad student
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
OK - I'm really beginning to hate LA. I lived in Boston, Chicago, San Francisco (well, San Jose, but close enough), and Vienna Austria. I'm trying to like LA, and my neighborhood is good (near Melrose/fairfax...); but I just don't. If I think only of LA, I can tolerate it. If ever I think of how cool somewhere else was, LA looks like shit. If ANYONE likes LA, please clue me in to what is cool about it/what to do here. I dig house/electronica (I'm from chi town)... so thats an option, but it seems like LA just doesn't have the soul of other places; or something. your thoughts are appreciated...

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  • Reply 1 of 13
    applenutapplenut Posts: 5,768member
    <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />



    Not exactly what I like to hear when I'm in the process of planning my Christmas break to be in Los Angeles
  • Reply 2 of 13
    spaceman_spiffspaceman_spiff Posts: 1,242member
    I visited L.A. a few years ago. Think it was '95 or so. I liked Pasadena - Bungalow Heaven to be precise. This is a wonderful neighborhood of Craftsman style houses that appealed to me greatly. The houses are well-suited for a middle-class urban neighborhood of single family homes. If I ever lived out there that's where I'd want to be. There was an Armenian Deli not far from there that I also liked.



    I also liked going north through the San Gabriels to the Mojave Desert.



    Downtown L.A. has the Bradley Building where they filmed some interior shots in "Blade Runner". That was cool but for the most part L.A. proper didn't do much for me. Of course, I didn't really know my way around the place very well.
  • Reply 3 of 13
    artman @_@artman @_@ Posts: 2,546member
  • Reply 4 of 13
    klinuxklinux Posts: 453member
    Well, I thought I would hate LA after coming from the cultued Boston (Cambridge, actually) where there is history, heritage, etc.



    However, I now love the weather, the close proximity to snow and the beach (LA is probably where you can ski in the morning and hit the beach int he afternoon), the casualness, better food, cheap cost-of-living, etc. Of course there are things I don't like about LA, but you already have your own list. Oh, I am in Pasadena.



    If you need convincing, chances are you have already made up your mind. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
  • Reply 5 of 13
    colanderofdeathcolanderofdeath Posts: 1,261member
    LA is no good. Too much traffic. Too much crime. Too much sprawl. Too many people who havent gotten over the pretentiousness of high school. Too much fake boobs. Move to Portland instead.
  • Reply 6 of 13
    mikey offendermikey offender Posts: 412member
    Quit your pansy-ass whining and deal with it.



    South Pasadena owns you.
  • Reply 7 of 13
    applenutapplenut Posts: 5,768member
    anyone know anything about Arcadia? That's where I'll likely be staying.... there and a little bit at Cal State Fullerton.
  • Reply 8 of 13
    running with scissorsrunning with scissors Posts: 1,124member
    [quote]Originally posted by ColanderOfDeath:

    <strong>Too much fake boobs. </strong><hr></blockquote>



    what's wrong with fake boobs?



    you want fake boobs, come to dallas. fake boobs and big trucks.
  • Reply 9 of 13
    overhopeoverhope Posts: 1,123member
    Los Angeles sucks ass: gimme San Francisco any day.



    Though I don't mind Santa Monica too much.



    [ 10-22-2002: Message edited by: Overhope ]</p>
  • Reply 10 of 13
    tmptmp Posts: 601member
    Well, I like it here. I think you have to find the neighborhood that's right for you, though. The person who is going to be at home and happy in West Hollywood is not going to be at home and happy in Redondo Beach. I like the relative ease of getting around (For me, anyway. I have a straight shot bus ride to work), the climate, and the relative safety. As far as clubs go, I kind of stopped doing them a while ago. A lot of them seem to be about drinking and drugs, and I (mostly) gave that up.



    As far as being ugly, sure, there are parts of Los Angeles that are truly awful (most of Santa Monica Blvd for instance, except in BH and where Weho cleaned it up), but that is the same in other cities as well. I lived in New York for years and I'll stack the lower east side up against any part of the basin in the ugly sweeps. And someof the ugliness just makes me smile. There is something so hidously tacky about the Xmas decorations that are put up here that I just have to laugh. And come on, how can you not look at <a href="http://angelyne.com/"; target="_blank">Angelyne</a> without laughing? Even the 20-ish plastic surgery victims with the collagen lips, botox foreheads and silicone breasts cruising Barney's make me titter- and those are the men. I really liked the times that I lived in New York, Chicago and Boston, but the life that I am able to afford in LA is just better: easier, safer and saner. I've lived here through the riots and the quakes, and a drive across Mulholland on a jasmine-scented evening with the top down or dinner at the Inn of the Seventh Ray with someone I care about or being able to rollerblade at the beach in November or watching the Disney concert hall being built or having drinks at LACMA or Italian Ice on Montana Ave or a 100 other things are things that more than make up for it.



    I used to work in the Bradbury Building- it is absolutely gorgeous- completely different from the way "Blade Runner" made it look. They really trashed the place.



    You are right in that LA is not an easy place to hook up with people in the way that NY or Chicago are. There is a party scene, but bars close here early (2am) and a lot of people just don't party as much as they do on the east coast. I don't know if it's because this is an "industry" town or just that we have to get in our cars to get home from those clubs.



    And this is not directed at you, Grad Student, but I really wish that all of the people currently living in LA who gripe that it isn't somewhere else would just go live wherever it is they feel is so much better. We need your parking space.
  • Reply 11 of 13
    colanderofdeathcolanderofdeath Posts: 1,261member
    [quote]Quit your pansy-ass whining and deal with it.



    South Pasadena owns you.<hr></blockquote>



    Isnt that the same part of town where UCLA loses their football games?



    Anyway, whatever makes joo happy Shanny, that is all that matters to me.
  • Reply 12 of 13
    mikey offendermikey offender Posts: 412member
    [quote]Originally posted by ColanderOfDeath:

    <strong>



    Isnt that the same part of town where UCLA loses their football games?



    Anyway, whatever makes joo happy Shanny, that is all that matters to me.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Your cute little way you seek me out to tell me you love me is what makes me happy.
  • Reply 13 of 13
    mikey offendermikey offender Posts: 412member
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    [ 10-25-2002: Message edited by: Mikey Offender ]</p>
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