East Coasters in Los Angeles, please help! Need to choose neighborhood. (Pasadena: 2014, house) - Page 5 - City-Data Forum

Laocoön · 07-09-2010, 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Fontucky

Why do people come West looking for East?

In the 20th century, East eclipsed West as T.S. Eliot prophesied in The Waste Land.

London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down

These fragments I have shored against my ruins
Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo's mad againe.
Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata.

Shantih shantih shantih

Or, as W.B. Yeats envisioned, the twenty century flip has occurred, inverting and reversing everything. And as such, East has become West and West become East here in Century One.

The rough beast is dizzy and disoriented under the new sun of his new morn. He arises from his slumber. He traverses the land, criss-crossing, snaking through desert sands. Slouching, subconsciously oriented towards Bethlehem, the place of rebirth.

Fontucky · 07-09-2010, 04:08 PM

That's a very short post for you. Congratulations on your newly-found brevity.

Jay100 · 07-13-2010, 01:09 PM

OP: We're bigger than you. Get with the program.

quiltartist · 11-10-2010, 07:29 PM

I came to Los Angeles 30 years ago from Kansas City, MO. I lived in Culver City (Fox Hills) for 18 years and I recommend Culver City because it is surrounded by everything. Beverly Hills to the north, airport southwest, beaches four miles straight west, black churches east and south of the city. You can go to all these places without getting on a freeway. It's very cool in the summer with ocean breezes flowing through the city, and sea gulls walking around some of the parking lots. Culver City schools rate very high in the state. It's high school rating is number one. If you are looking for other mixed couples like yourself, do what my husband and I used to do. We hug out in Santa Monica. That is a beach city west of Culver City. You might even consider living in Santa Monica also if you like being very near the water.

Adelle_Sharp · 01-09-2011, 01:43 AM

Silver lake or los Feliz. But really, with the attitude you've got, just do us all a favor and stay there. I don't think you can handle it here, and I hate to hear the screams "I'm melting! I'm melting!"

And I love it, successful protesters, a lawyer and a producer, angry at the system. You're joking because you can't be so obviously oblivious right? BTW you sound like east coast racists to me.

Adelle_Sharp · 01-09-2011, 01:55 AM

I wish New York City people would try to be a little more sophisticated about understanding that when they leave their town that means *Suprise* they are in a new place. The lack of charm and rudeness from some NYers is tedious and borish. Please learn to develop some sense of decorum before you travel elsewhere.
In NY speek: Don't just open your mouth and let crap fall out off it.

seain dublin · 01-09-2011, 01:56 AM

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Originally Posted by latinovelvet

Dear Catherine,
I don't know if you are truly naive about Los Angeles or if your comments are as backhanded as I suspect them to be as you feel the need to CAPITALIZE all of your stereotypes of Los Angeles and have your "high demands" about a neighborhood you'd live in, which Los Angeles cannot possibly satisfy as opposed to New Yawk.

But to answer your question, ther are plenty of neighborhoods in Los Angeles that may fit your "criteria" if you are willing to leave that New Yawk mentality in the subway.
1) LA is probably the most diverse city in the nation. Maybe in the "Upper East Side" there are only three shades of color: Black, White, Brown. But in LA, there are many shades of Brown, and Black, and White. Oh yea, lets not forget our few Persian, Phillipine, Korean, Armenian, etc. friends. No need to separate them by highway. I know thats nothing compared to the different shades of pasty white your used to.
2) A couple of us Angelinos are a little more "politically interested" than your snob New Yawk "blacksuitwhitetie" mentality may be. You may want to give a second glance at your neighbors who may look like they're on their way to "Jamba Juice."
3) If you find LA's image so "depressing", I suggest maybe moving back to New Yawk since it is blatantly obvious that you are choosing to pick out any of the typical LA stereotypes and dwell on them, rather than accepting the area you will be living in and seeing that LA has alot more to offer than your willing to give it credit for. Either that, or maybe you should check out the local pharmacy for Zoloft, Prozac or "kush"! But maybe you just might want to go back to New Yawk since it is obvious that you will snicker every time you realize that you are living here instead of the eastcoast.

I'm sorry, I'm just a stereotypically "politically uninspired" Los Angelino that drinks Jamba Juice and am very undiverse. But at least if I ever move to New York and don't see the sun often, smell everyones stank in the subway, and see that the women are tier 2, I won't be complaining on a forum about it.

I think the OP is a troll. She despises LA but she HAS to move for work.

Is someone putting a gun to her head? The boyfriend is an attorney so he isn't limited to where he lives, and she inherited a lot of money, so why move somewhere you hate?

She lived in LA for more than a decade but doesn't know the various areas???? Makes no sense.

Why would you buy a house in a place you despise?

You would rent a house for a year, and if you found once again that you disliked it you would leave.

I call BS.

seain dublin · 01-09-2011, 02:00 AM

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Originally Posted by quiltartist

I came to Los Angeles 30 years ago from Kansas City, MO. I lived in Culver City (Fox Hills) for 18 years and I recommend Culver City because it is surrounded by everything. Beverly Hills to the north, airport southwest, beaches four miles straight west, black churches east and south of the city. You can go to all these places without getting on a freeway. It's very cool in the summer with ocean breezes flowing through the city, and sea gulls walking around some of the parking lots. Culver City schools rate very high in the state. It's high school rating is number one. If you are looking for other mixed couples like yourself, do what my husband and I used to do. We hug out in Santa Monica. That is a beach city west of Culver City. You might even consider living in Santa Monica also if you like being very near the water.

Someone who claims they lived in Brentwood for 11yrs would know all this.

seain dublin · 01-09-2011, 02:10 AM

I just looked at her posting history. Total troll.

She only has 13 posts over a two day period asking a about a major move????. This post was designed to "stir the pot".

Funny on one other thread she is answering a question about Southern CA...LOL.

flyfeathers · 02-20-2011, 08:16 PM

Be very careful, I would get a real estate agent and tell them exactly what I want.If you want to be far from the city Pasadena is nice.I prefer to be closer to the city, but with all the gangs and the illegals that can be very challenging.I am not prejudice any race but illegal immigration brings with it a lot of extra problems that you can't even imagine unless you live very close to or in the area.