L.A. Third World Country (London: crime, mortgage, house)

[montevista1]

I have lived my entire life and I have got to say this is a third world country!

Their is no middle class in L.A. either you are super rich or poor!

Traffic here is close to something you would see in Asia.

Housing here is insane and I dont understand why a house in Van Nuys costs 650K when its not even a nice area!

How do people pay their mortgage are they really making 200K a year?!

I do not understand why in just about any other state in the country 650K gets you a nice house in a good school district.

L.A. sucks and I am hoping I can make 200K+ so I can live here othewise I will need to move to another state!

[gfluneedit]

Originally Posted by montevista1

I have lived my entire life and I have got to say this is a third world country!

Their is no middle class in L.A. either you are super rich or poor!

Traffic here is close to something you would see in Asia.

Housing here is insane and I dont understand why a house in Van Nuys costs 650K when its not even a nice area!

How do people pay their mortgage are they really making 200K a year?!

I do not understand why in just about any other state in the country 650K gets you a nice house in a good school district.

L.A. sucks and I am hoping I can make 200K+ so I can live here othewise I will need to move to another state!

plus you have hoards of dirty illegals

I hate to be that blunt about it but thats the reality

[montevista1]

I do not dislike Illegals. Fact is someone is employing them, giving their kids healthcare, sending their kids to school!

If you lived in Mexico and you recieved all these benifits if you came to America, you would risk your life to come to America.

Every city in America has thousands of illegals & barrios that seem like you are in Mexico because of the above!

This is not exclusive of L.A.!

[Candid Canuck]

Originally Posted by montevista1

I do not dislike Illegals. Fact is someone is employing them, giving their kids healthcare, sending their kids to school!

If you lived in Mexico and you recieved all these benifits if you came to America, you would risk your life to come to America.

Every city in America has thousands of illegals & barrios that seem like you are in Mexico because of the above!

This is not exclusive of L.A.!

not true. go to vermont, rhode isle, no immigration problems. ohio- no immigration problems.

[newportbeachsmostwanted]

Originally Posted by Candid Canuck

not true. go to vermont, rhode isle, no immigration problems. ohio- no immigration problems.

I visited Stamford, Conn. and Providence, RI this past week. Let me report to you that I passed through many neighborhoods that mirrored exactely what I see in LA. (Illegals, and more illegals..) Signs and billboards in Spanish. Trash everywhere. Graffiti problems. Day laborers on the street corners. Providence was especially bad on the lower-westside. Stamford had a neighborhood just south of I-95 that mimiced East LA. Don't write off Vermont either. The problem is also in Vermont:
As the state of Vermont subsidizes VT farmer's Spanish lessons. http://www.reformer.com/headlines/ci_4963609

The world is-a-changin' and they are taking over!

[montevista1]

Newport ever watch Lou Dobbs he is not as blunt as you but agrees with you.

Its sad what is going on to USA.

[krass42]

though I haven't lived there, i love places as diverse as LA. OK, there is crime and all but being from Europe there is nothing more depressing than a suburb without any character....everything looks the same....people are scared and don't know how to live with people from other nations. I have NEVER been to a country that is as segregated as the US.....how is a country multicultural if the individual cultures live in different areas and basically hate each other. LA has problems, sure but try Rio de Janeiro or Buenos Aires and you'll see that it ain't that bad....and if you end up robbed in South Central, it was probably your own fault.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by krass42

though I haven't lived there, i love places as diverse as LA. OK, there is crime and all but being from Europe there is nothing more depressing than a suburb without any character....everything looks the same....people are scared and don't know how to live with people from other nations. I have NEVER been to a country that is as segregated as the US.....how is a country multicultural if the individual cultures live in different areas and basically hate each other. LA has problems, sure but try Rio de Janeiro or Buenos Aires and you'll see that it ain't that bad....and if you end up robbed in South Central, it was probably your own fault.

French cities seem pretty segregated to me, although I realize that's a recent development.

[Candid Canuck]

take a trip to canada all of you.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by Candid Canuck

take a trip to canada all of you.

Montreal is a really amazing, amazing city IMO, the most intense, stimulating city in North America next to NYC. This is all just a matter of opinion, but I think the reason why LA people seem to ***** about diversity more than people in similarly or more diverse cities like NY, Montreal, or London is because 50+ years ago or so,before I was born, the attitude in LA was very ANTI-diversity and highly prejudiced (even as late as 1960, L.A. had a higher percentage of white protestants than any US city outside of the South, and the old now-extinct WASP elite continued to control things until the '70s). The "PC" of that time (to use an anachronistic phrase that didn't exist then) in L.A. was "we're NOT like the eastern cities" - as opposed to NYC which has always accepted diversity, or London which was the capital of what was the world's biggest empire.

Haven't been to Vancouver though - maybe someday....