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LA is the best suburban sprawl North America can offer.
as a person who's spent 300 of his last 900 or so days in LA i can state unequivocally:
Topping LA in terms of real urban life, everything, day, nightlife, etc
1. New York
2. DC/Chicago
4. San Francisco
5. Boston
6. Miami
i like LA's nice parts generally. but its not that great for people over ~35. Then too, everything is wayyy too spread out. Is a 36~50 year old going to spend his/her life on Sunset Strip? The great 70's bands are gone. Sorry; it's not that great. You spend half your life in your car. Yes, it beats Seattle, Dallas, Atlanta, Charlotte, Kansas City, etc. i could be in LA or Santa Monica, or Venice or Newport Beach or Oceanside or *Pacific Beach (college years when i strayed off the UCSD campus) and it's basically all about the same: "Cocktails." i like Malibu too. But it ostensibly shuts down after 9:30 pm on weekdays and about 11:30 pm on weekends. The ultra rich are just as much the ultra busy. They're early risers and prefer to beat the traffic to the studios.
Late fall, early spring, California ALL THE WAY.....
Most of LA and Orange County has become a suburban dump and a freak show.
Weather IS extremely significant. And that is really a wonderful aspect about California living. For 1/2 the year, the Northeast blows California's sun baked doors. But it reverses in the cold months. i'm very fortunate to drink up both til i'm almost incapacitated.
Lol! I really don’t think you know the area as well as you think you do.
The only thing those beach cities have in common is air and water temp.
To say most of LA and OC are suburban dumping grounds, and freak shows, is laughable.
And to claim the northeast has better weather half the year is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve read in some time.
I’m not completely disagreeing with your list, although I think DC is way too high, I’m wondering where Seattle is, Boston’s urban core is very small(although I love it), and I don’t think you give LA enough credit in that department.
I dig me some Pasadena. I'm not sure why.. I just do. On par with Berkeley for me as the most livable Cali cities.
Have you tried the Culver City / Palms area? In my opinion, it's one of the best urban nodes in Los Angeles. There's the Expo Line service, which while slow in parts, connects to a lot of other good neighborhoods and commercial strips and the Culver City Bus services are quite good. There's a real downtown that serves as an employment center along with having a lot of niceties and Palms is really interesting as a very dense, mostly multi-unit apartment complexes on the westside.
I think when the Inglewood Oil Field finally stops churning, those grounds are prime areas to set up a sizable park (aside from the parkland already in that area), then we've really got a stew going,
but, in the summer it's often Texas-Panhandle HOTT.
btw, fresh population numbers out for Boston; ~693,000 give or take
Density ~14,312/ sq mi
Last edited by odurandina; 07-17-2018 at 03:58 PM..
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