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Old 10-29-2013, 03:35 AM
 
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I was watching this video on uptown Houston, if you skip to 3:25 you notice the uploader posts a comment about uptown being as big as DTLA, then I read some of the comments people were leaving on how Houston is a bigger city than even LA, got me thinking if people really think that LA is actually that small? What do you guys think?

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F9ner54K1Qw
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Old 10-29-2013, 03:42 AM
 
Location: Oroville, California
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L.A. is twice as large in population and the metro area is three times as large as Houston. Don't know how that could be misconstrued as "small".
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Old 10-29-2013, 04:00 AM
 
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L.A. is twice as large in population and the metro area is three times as large as Houston. Don't know how that could be misconstrued as "small".
Well obviously you and I both know that, but I'm talking more from an outsider/out of state general perspective.
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Old 10-29-2013, 04:32 AM
 
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Well obviously you and I both know that, but I'm talking more from an outsider/out of state general perspective.
If you hang out in certain neighborhoods/niches all the time, LA can get pretty small.

Examples are Silver Lake hipster, Santa Monica yuppie, West Hollywood gay or lesbian, Venice "bohemian"
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Old 10-29-2013, 04:34 AM
 
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If you hang out in certain neighborhoods/niches all the time, LA can get pretty small.

Examples are Silver Lake hipster, Santa Monica yuppie, West Hollywood gay or lesbian, Venice "bohemian"
But to an outsider, is LA portrayed to be smaller than what it is?
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Old 10-29-2013, 04:40 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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But to an outsider, is LA portrayed to be smaller than what it is?
Why are you asking people on the inside?
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Old 10-29-2013, 04:56 AM
 
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Why are you asking people on the inside?
Obviously there are people who have just moved to the LA area, its a question meant more for them, before coming here I was wondering if they perceived LA as smaller than what it is.
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Old 10-29-2013, 06:30 AM
 
Location: Norteh Bajo Americano
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While LA is physically huge, I feel it is smaller than it is. I spent nearly my entire time in a small slice of LA. I dont have many reasons to go into Santa Clarita, high desert, west and north San Fernando Valley, South Bay, Gateway Cities and South LA, east San Gabriel Valley, San Bern/Riverside/Ventura/Orange County. The freeway system allows me to get to places faster and makes the region seem really small. When driving across the city on city streets, then I feel it is huge. By foot is feels like the universe. I walked from Hollywood/Highland down La Brea, onto Melrose, then Fairfax to the Grove/Farmers Market. On google maps it seems short, but trust me it is not.

To many friends who visited LA as tourists, they often confine themselves to a small slice of LA. Airport-beaches-westside-Hollywood-Downtown LA-Pasadena. The more favorable opinions of LA depended on whether they had a rental or took public transit. For many Americans cities I have been to, I often confine myself to a smaller section of the city/area compared to LA. For San Francisco, I mostly just hang out in the eastern/northern half, NYC just anything south from Central Park on. Im not sure if visitors actually know how big LA metro is. I think many outsiders can name many cities outside of LA city for being famous in popular culture/sports/music/TV such as Malibu, Santa Monica, Manhattan Beach, Beverly Hills, Burbank, Pasadena, Compton, Inglewood, Long Beach, East LA, West Hollywood... I think that the biggest ones. I feel whenever I watch movies about LA, it makes it feel so small and compact. They seem to get from end of the city to the other in like no time at all.
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Old 10-29-2013, 08:27 AM
 
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is Los Angeles considered small?

What does "small" mean?
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Old 10-29-2013, 10:59 AM
 
Location: West Los Angeles
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I feel whenever I watch movies about LA, it makes it feel so small and compact. They seem to get from end of the city to the other in like no time at all.
Gone in 60 Seconds was hilarious in that sense. That movie made it seem like you could go from Long Beach (the port area) to Beverly Hills in like 15 minutes as long as you have a fast sports car haha.
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