Does L.A. look like Africa in some places? (Santa Ana: earthquakes, live in)

[diallomacedo]

The cars look like the ones they drive in Africa '85-'95 year model cars. The landscape is the same (a desert). Honestly Anacostia, one of the a roughest neighborhoods in Washington D.C. looks like the 90% of the greater Los Angeles region.

[bpeeps]

Originally Posted by diallomacedo

The cars look like the ones they drive in Africa '85-'95 year model cars. The landscape is the same (a desert). Honestly Anacostia, one of the a roughest neighborhoods in Washington D.C. looks like the 90% of the greater Los Angeles region.

So what's your point? Don't live in Africa then.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Originally Posted by diallomacedo

Has anyone else noticed the 10-mile stretch between Carmenita road and Firestone boulevard when driving on the 5 towards Los Angeles from Santa Ana. If so, have you noticed the resemblance between these neighborhoods and the cities in West Africa. In particular Accra, Ghana. The houses resemble the shanti's. The landscape is desert like, and many of the side walks are simply dirt roads. The electricity is above ground towers. How does a first world nation have so much resemblance with a nation that is still in its first 100 years of development?

I don't agree with your comparison of the built environment. However, yes, LA (and California in general) does resemble NW Africa, as well as parts of the nation of South Africa, in many of its microclimates. That's a no brainer, we have the same climate zones.

[UB50]

Originally Posted by diallomacedo

No... I have been to Accra, Ghana and that mile stretch definitely looks like Africa. It is the poorest thing I have ever seen in the continent of the United States. Los Angeles is very very impoverished. It's really bad.

You've never seen the migrant workers shacks in the South, have you?

[UB50]

Originally Posted by diallomacedo

They think plastic signs for shopping centers, and cheap materials for housing instead of brick is the standard,

Yeah, we should build with more brick so more people can die when we have an earthquake.

[saibot]

If you've already made up your mind that LA looks like Africa, why did you ask?

[diallomacedo]

Originally Posted by UB50

You've never seen the migrant workers shacks in the South, have you?

Is that real? I'd like to check it out to take pictures.

[MordinSolus]

Originally Posted by diallomacedo

Yes I have been to Accra, Ghana and Monrovia, Liberia and yes, L.A. (in some parts) does resemble Africa. It really does. It really really does. People from L.A. like to think that they don't live in the least developed part of the United States, but they actually do. In terms of the supplemental poverty measure, the measure of poverty in terms of consumption, L.A. and Cali is by faaaaaaar the poorest entity on this land mass minus Mexico. It's too poor, and people don't realize that its poor. They think plastic signs for shopping centers, and cheap materials for housing instead of brick is the standard, no it is not the standard, it is the government not spending any money on infrastructure and it is simply POOR.

That's demonstrably false. You see, we have this thing called the internet, which gives us access to all sorts of information. We can fact check trolls like you in a matter of seconds.

[nslander]

Originally Posted by chrstianconservative

LA is a really poorly designed ugly city and looks like Mexico City/ Caracas when you are landing into LAX. And LAX is the most dilapidated looking airport in the country even major cities in developing countries have better looking airports. Its only saving grace is the stunning natural beauty of the surrounding area (which humans had nothing to do with).

Sure. But on the flip side, it's mercifully spared the ugliness of ideologically infused religious fundamentalism plaguing many parts of the country.

[jamills21]

Originally Posted by nslander

Sure. But on the flip side, it's mercifully spared the ugliness of ideologically infused religious fundamentalism plaguing many parts of the country.

nslander.....it's not worth it man....