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Exactly. LA was a small town, while SF was a thriving bustling city. LA wasnt top 5 largest city in California not too long ago, so to see it explode in population is crazy. However I still feel like Chicago is more of a pier to LA than NYC because NYC has too rich of history and an urban intensity that's unrivaled and one of 2 US cities to have tracts over 100k ppsm (other being San Francisco). LA isnt a top 10 urban city in America and that hurts its image but it's a young city so it's only natural
Los Angeles had passed San Francisco in population by the 1920 census and was Top 5 city in the US by the 1930 census.
Los Angeles had passed San Francisco in population by the 1920 census and was Top 5 city in the US by the 1930 census.
By the way, Chicago is a peer, not a "pier"...
I think his point still stands....L.A. was still a frontier town trying to figure out infrastructure while S.F. was a peer to Pittsburgh and Cincinnati.
The real watershed year for L.A. was 1916, not 1920 though.
By that time water was connected, petroleum had been discovered, and motion pictures had achieved credibility as a major industry, which L.A. was the center of.
Middle. People are heavily swayed by media, but when you remove that from this discussion, it's clearly either middle or closer to Chicago. Most TV shows/movies are filmed in either NYC, or LA, but that doesn't mean both of these places are closer together overall. Chicago and LA actually share quite a bit in terms of being "boom" cities in the late 1800's an later, neither being a part of the original colony region.
I actually think it's the opposite. LA is way overrated in this forum.
Sometimes you visit a place and immediately you get a "Wow" feeling, I felt in in NYC and even in Chicago but not in Los Angeles, not even close.
The only surprising thing I saw in LA was the thousands and thousands of homeless everywhere. Unless you think you can have a successful career in acting, I don't see a reason to ever consider moving there.
I heard someone say that the actual City of Los Angeles itself is meh, It's it's Metro Area and Surroundings that make the City Shine and give it all it's power
I heard someone say that the actual City of Los Angeles itself is meh, It's it's Metro Area and Surroundings that make the City Shine and give it all it's power
Total false imo. The city is what makes it great. The surroundings are special too. It all works for me but I do live in the city and love it.
I heard someone say that the actual City of Los Angeles itself is meh, It's it's Metro Area and Surroundings that make the City Shine and give it all it's power
Ha, I'd like to hear someone qualify that opinion, because the actual city of Los Angeles has more awesome areas than most places have in their entire metros. That just sounds like a statement from someone that didn't know much about the city...
Ha, I'd like to hear someone qualify that opinion, because the actual city of Los Angeles has more awesome areas than most places have in their entire metros. That just sounds like a statement from someone that didn't know much about the city...
To be fair West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Pasadena are pretty famous and different cities.
To be fair West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Pasadena are pretty famous and different cities.
Sure, although I'd argue those areas are part of the contiguous urban fabric of LA, and most people don't know that they aren't technically in the jurisdictional limits of Los Angeles; they are LA. But sure...
Hollywood, Rodeo Drive, and Westwood are in the city itself...
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