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That's all nice and all that but you can't just ignore criminals either just to focus on black success stories. That would be totally disrespectful to all the innocent victims of those scumbags and also people's lives it still affects.
Of course he'd focus on the negatives of ATL's and America's Black communities. But the post I was responded to suggested that "he'd be dissappointed with the hooligans in Atlanta" as if law abiding, middle-class, affluent, and poor Blacks don't exist in the city of Atlanta. As if ATL is nothing but criminals, and as if Blacks haven't made significant strides in ATL and don't own their own businesses.
A lot of people in NY and LA are pretty narrow-minded and insulated.
True. I can attest to that as a native and life-long resident of Los Angeles. Personally, I think that it's more of a class-divide than anything else here. In my daily errand runnings, especially in Downtown, although very diverse, there is rarely any social interaction between people of different incomes. The further away a person is from Downtown and the Hollywood area, it's gets somewhat better.
In the San Fernando Valley, where I currently reside, the people are more friendly.
True. I can attest to that as a native and life-long resident of Los Angeles. Personally, I think that it's more of a class-divide than anything else here. In my daily errand runnings, especially in Downtown, although very diverse, there is rarely any social interaction between people of different incomes. The further away a person is from Downtown and the Hollywood area, it's gets somewhat better.
In the San Fernando Valley, where I currently reside, the people are more friendly.
Interesting that the folks who live in the more suburban areas like the San Fernando Valley are more friendlier than the folks who reside in the dense urban areas like Hollywood.
San Fran is desperately missing from this list. The SF boosters on this board are the most ridiculous boosters I've ever encountered. They'll take any tiny fact, no matter how irrelevant, spin it out of context, and use it to boost their their city.
San Fran is desperately missing from this list. The SF boosters on this board are the most ridiculous boosters I've ever encountered. They'll take any tiny fact, no matter how irrelevant, spin it out of context, and use it to boost their their city.
Not sure I'd call them the most ridiculous boosters on C-D, but I would call SF'ans (and many Bay Areans in general) to be among the absolute most arrogant people in the United States. Especially as it relates to "the City" and NorCal.
Oakland and the South Bay/San Jose tend to have some more down to Earth, relaxed types, but San Francisco, Marin and the general Bay Area is not the "California laid back" people think of generally. The area's coastal towns like Half Moon Bay, Pescadero, and Santa Cruz/Capitola (which even still is greatly influenced by Silicon Valley commuter snobbery) are also considerably more laid back.
I honestly find L.A. and Southern California to be a little more laid back and less full of itself, at least once you're away from Hollywood and wealthy areas like the west side, Calabasas and South O.C. Go to the San Gabriel Valley or north O.C., which still have many nice areas mind you, and tell me how "pretentious" it feels compared to the seas of leased $60k Lexuses. Yeah...that's what I thought.
Now, you wanna see a city where I consistently meet grumpy people and/or straight a-holes every time I visit? Louisville, Kentucky. Moved away from there in 2005 after living there for nine months, but still have to visit 1-2 times a year because of family nearby. I appreciate my Kentucky roots, but have no love to lose for its largest city! The superiority/inferiority complex the residents have against most places that aren't "the 'Ville," especially rural Kentucky, is just bazaar.
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