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Old 06-04-2010, 05:10 PM
 
Location: Birmingham,AL
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Well, there's no perfect place =) overall places are the same, some are beautiful but no jobs, some have great jobs but are boring, you need to decide what you keeping.
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Old 06-04-2010, 05:10 PM
 
Location: Sherman Oaks, CA
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misdeliver, I'm sorry you've not had good experiences here, but I'm also questioning why you're so "poor" on $100,000 a year! I make way less than that, and I survive just fine.

As for the dating scene here, you're probably generalizing based on only a few guys, and that's sad. This is a county of 11 million people, and I'd bet that quite a few of them are men! To say that all 5 or 6 million men don't know how to treat women (okay, maybe 2 or 3 million men if you subtract the married and gay men) is ridiculous.

And once again we have someone else stating how "fake" L.A. is, etc. As someone else already posted, it depends what crowd you're in. Yes, there are many industry types who are all about their egos, their latest project, etc. But there are just as many down to earth, genuinely nice people who have no involvement with the entertainment industry whatsoever.

L.A. is what you make of it. You can find solid, long lasting friendships, or you can find superficial nonsense. It's entirely up to you.

I agree with others who said that you're probably better off going back to the south. I'm sure it's completely different from here, and more what you're used to. Good luck!
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Old 06-04-2010, 05:23 PM
 
Location: los angeles/florida
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I cannot wait to leave LA. I'm a 30 year old single, professional female who made over 100K last year and I feel POOR. I'm going back to the South to invest in real estate where I can actually build wealth and plan an awesome future. I thought about staying, but every time I see these rent prices, it makes me so angry to think how these prices keep everyone so poor! I like money though... perhaps security and future-building is not a priority for most?

Angelinos pay 9.75% in sales tax BECAUSE of their immigration problems, though they'll feed you a load of their liberal hippie-we-are-all-one talk to make you believe otherwise. You think you'd be paying that much if you didn't have illegals flooding your schools and hospitals and taking other social benefits? No. This is the most poorly run city I've ever seen. Live in Paris, pay those taxes, and actually RECEIVE real social benefits and be taken care of, instead of struggling to get by.... People who accept the way this city is run are saps.

As a side note, the people here are absolutely crazy. What else besides ego draws people to a city to try and "be someone." Also, the dating scene is the WORST I've ever experienced. Men don't know how to be men at all and are completely emasculated by these uber liberal femdoms... or maybe its the fact that many cannot afford to date at all. Either way, most cannot afford to have families, so if you are into having kids, stay away from this city in terms of finding potential matches.

To anyone who is so in love with LA and wanting to move here, that was me 3 years ago. Good luck trying to be a something and a somebody until you wake up and realize that's not what life is about at all...

Although I do love a lot of things about L.A., I have to say WORD to this post!
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Old 06-04-2010, 05:25 PM
 
Location: los angeles/florida
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Don't worry, I'm sure 100 illegals will make up for the loss E

Sad but soooooooooooooooooo true!
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Old 06-04-2010, 05:31 PM
 
Location: Glendale, CA
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Oh, I feel the same way. I can't wait to get the frak out of this city.
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Old 06-04-2010, 05:51 PM
 
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I don't now why people are so defensive about this city when all they have to do is say ....yes...you're right....there are a lot of issues with this place...instead of making excuses for it.
I would have to respond that I make no excuses, but there's defensiveness when criticism of L.A. almost always comes to a kind of moral posturing. Every which way--diversity/segregation, wealth/poverty, sunny weather/excessive heat, etc., etc., etc.--seems inevitably to lead to an indictment of the very character of Los Angeles denizens, and ever claiming the ethical superiority of the accuser. I find that very strange. L.A. really is a state of mind, it seems, and when you release that baggage you do find it's just a place. One I discover a lot of delights in; but really, like anywhere, just a place. Not some mythical nexus where good and evil do battle.

That's the pop culture construction of the place. To refuse it, to be "real" and not "fake" is still to buy into the image in the first place, so who's still the dupe?
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Old 06-04-2010, 07:43 PM
 
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Regarding your man issues, I'm sorry, I'm not like your Fabio on the cover of romance novels. However, I do use an exfoliating facial wash that cleanses my pores while removing dead skin and ...
leaving my skin youthful and glowing.
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Old 06-04-2010, 08:48 PM
 
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Bunjee, I dig your post. I too believe that we create our reality, but I guess in my reality I started paying attention to what I saw... you know, not judging at first, but just remaining open and asking myself if what I was seeing was what I wanted to become. My friends are from all walks by the way, so it wasn't just one group. And then the battle started to be waged because I saw major similarities in places that weren't going to serve my higher vision. I get that its all perception, but if its MASS perception, you're dealing with a bigger reality, one that wields less to your own. That's a scary thing for a woman who's got to make major life decisions. You get gun shy about major decisions when you have made some really crappy ones in life.
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Old 06-04-2010, 10:29 PM
 
Location: 5280
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I moved to Denver from Van Nuys and I MISS YOU ALL SOOOO MUCH!!!!

...and it's true, they really all do wish they could be California girls.

As soon as the economy is better, I'm coming back home. And yes, I am counting the days
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Old 06-04-2010, 11:25 PM
 
Location: Pasadena
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I cannot wait to leave LA. I'm a 30 year old single, professional female who made over 100K last year and I feel POOR. I'm going back to the South to invest in real estate where I can actually build wealth and plan an awesome future. I thought about staying, but every time I see these rent prices, it makes me so angry to think how these prices keep everyone so poor! I like money though... perhaps security and future-building is not a priority for most?

Angelinos pay 9.75% in sales tax BECAUSE of their immigration problems, though they'll feed you a load of their liberal hippie-we-are-all-one talk to make you believe otherwise. You think you'd be paying that much if you didn't have illegals flooding your schools and hospitals and taking other social benefits? No. This is the most poorly run city I've ever seen. Live in Paris, pay those taxes, and actually RECEIVE real social benefits and be taken care of, instead of struggling to get by.... People who accept the way this city is run are saps.

As a side note, the people here are absolutely crazy. What else besides ego draws people to a city to try and "be someone." Also, the dating scene is the WORST I've ever experienced. Men don't know how to be men at all and are completely emasculated by these uber liberal femdoms... or maybe its the fact that many cannot afford to date at all. Either way, most cannot afford to have families, so if you are into having kids, stay away from this city in terms of finding potential matches.

To anyone who is so in love with LA and wanting to move here, that was me 3 years ago. Good luck trying to be a something and a somebody until you wake up and realize that's not what life is about at all...
If you can not afford to live in California than by all means move back to the South. The reason it is cheaper to live there is that not everyone wants to live in that kind of environment. Evidently you would not be able to live in many large U.S. cities and some other states [most notably states on the West Coast including Hawaii as well as states in the Northeast]. Why should we feel sorry for you? If you can't afford to live in Los Angeles than please move elsewhere but do you think that complaining about California is going to automatically lower housing prices?

Personally, I find it very odd that a person making a 6-digit salary can't find a comfortable home in LA but I've noticed that this is your first post so the likelihood of you being an impostor has to be considered.
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