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Los Angeles is not defensive...until you mention New York. Then, the s*** hits the fan. Because everyone is always la-de-da look at New York! Oh, god...Los Angeles. Any other city they don't care an assume that you'd rather live in LA anyway no matter how much you love your city. Either that or they just don't care if you love your city because they love theirs two. I know people who would die before they left Los Angeles. But when New York comes up they have a very hot-headed inferiority complex.
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Los Angeles is not defensive...until you mention New York. Then, the s*** hits the fan. Because everyone is always la-de-da look at New York! Oh, god...Los Angeles. Any other city they don't care an assume that you'd rather live in LA anyway no matter how much you love your city. Either that or they just don't care if you love your city because they love theirs two. I know people who would die before they left Los Angeles. But when New York comes up they have a very hot-headed inferiority complex.
I've not noticed it. LA and NY are too different to be that comparable. LA has too much NY doesn't: like Randy Newman's song 'I love LA.' People in LA don't WANT what they got in NYC. They want year-round outdoor weather, beaches, sunshine, space...
Contrast that to Chicago. There's bad blood between Chicago and NY because they're more similar. Big cities with a lot of skyscrapers and big egos. Of course deep down they know NY is king, but ever since the skyscraper wars they've always resented this fact.
Pittsburgh does in a big way, make a negative thread about it in their forum and watch the fur fly. Chicago, Philly and Boston do too to an extent, its all the old cities. NYC doesnt really, most of the threads on there complain about city life and anyone making fun of NYC is either agreed with or more patronized and dismissed than taunted.
Los Angeles is not defensive...until you mention New York. Then, the s*** hits the fan. Because everyone is always la-de-da look at New York! Oh, god...Los Angeles. Any other city they don't care an assume that you'd rather live in LA anyway no matter how much you love your city. Either that or they just don't care if you love your city because they love theirs two. I know people who would die before they left Los Angeles. But when New York comes up they have a very hot-headed inferiority complex.
Speaking only for myself. I have no envy at all of New York, I love the damn place. But, I DO take exception when people stereotype or put down LA based on inaccurate perceptions. LA gets that A LOT for some reason....LA is like the foreign kid that is at a new school. He's pretty smart, cool and an overall good guy but nobody likes him because he doesn't look like the "cool kids"
I guess every city has an inferiority complex about another city. Chicago is NYC.
When mentioning NYC to a Chicagoan, they always bring up how dirty New York is. Its never positive.
When living in Memphis, if you say that your from a major city outside of the southeast people get defensive.
Im sure there are others.
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