Comparing los angeles to new york city 3 (Glen: crime, houses)

[SlickRick1]

As someone who has been to both LA and New York on several occasions, I feel that I can honestly compare. I have lived in Glendale for a few months and I loved it. I am originally from New York state and I have visited NYC many times throughout my life. My first impression of Los Angeles was where is the downtown? But besides that, I thought the sunset strip was really cool and the overall atmosphere was especially cool especially if you were there for acting. I love how you see movie posters all over and there was a movie feel vibe different from any other city I had ever been too. There are negatives as well but I wont begin that yet. Having said all that, I will now describe the first time I ever went to NYC. Wow, let me say it again...Wow. My first impression of NYC was different than my impression of any other city and I had been to Chicago before as well. There is a certain energy in NY that I have yet to feel anywhere on this planet. There is a reason they named New York twice. One difference betweent the two and I am saying what I already heard is that it is true you have to do something in LA to have a good time, whereas in NYC you can just walk down the street to be entertained. I am here to set the record straight. First off, there is no comparing downtown LA to downtown New York, or (Manhattan). Downtown LA looks country compared to NYC. And just so we can erase any misconceived notions of if LA could ever be like NYC, (At least infrastructure wise---the answer is no. NYC unlike many other cities was built on granite. This is why they could build up without fear of collapsing the ground beneath it. Downtown LA is not built on granite, and is built in an area that is prone to earthquakes...End of that debate. Secondly I see alot of people arguing over which city is worse in crime. I believe the maffia and the gangs of LA such as Ms-13 are constantly being compared. Who cares. I personally would prefer to live in a city with less crime, call me crazy. But here is a little history. Back in the early 90's NYC was the worst city in the world for street level crime. Statistics that came out of NYC at that time will hopefully never be duplicated. NYC had close to three thousand murders, not counting the ones not recorded. LA was rough with gangs and such but no number in LA's history was ever more than 1000 murders. As of the last decade or so NYC's numbers are a mere fraction of the total in the early 90's, and thats a good thing. This is a result of more policing, better methods, and toughness on quality of life issues which Guilliani started. This method of crime reduction has now been embedded in Chicago, which recently has had a spike in murders. I think LA will be next if not already. As of today NYC is much safer than ten to fifteen years ago and thats a good thing. I cannot honestly speak to where LA is at this exact moment. But I do know that they have had a reduction of crime in that last ten years as well. Overall NYC will almost always have more murders just because the population is so much more. Oh and by the way NYC population over 8 mil. Overall in metro, closing in on 23 million. AS for LA 3 and a half mil and overall metro close to 18 million. As far as which has more to do etc. I would hands down have to say NYC, however LA is no shmuck. They have many things to do as well. But I can honestly say I've never been bored in NYC, whereas I have in LA. Having said all that, different people like different things. I happen to love cities with big downtowns like NYC and Chicago. LA just doesnt do it for me in that department. Here I will make a list of pro's and con's of both cities as unbias as I can.
NYC--Great downtown (the best in the world) you can go to Manhattan and find anything, and I mean anything.
The energy is New York is unparrallel. The nightlife is unparrallel. You have Coney Island, the beach. It is the financial district of the world, best shopping in the world. Great infrastructure, bridges (I guess that could be classified under infrastructure) museums, theatre is world class, food is to die for, the people despite popular opinion are actually very outgoing. NYC is a starter of fads, music ex. hip hop was started in NYC. ebonics was created in NYC. You have world class sports teams, you know what they are, I dont think I have to tellyouYou have china town, and almost every ethnic neighborhood you can think of.You have history--Ellis island (for those who dont know, this is were many of our ancestors came to this country), statue of LIberty, hundreds of world class skyscrapers and world class architecture. NYC is a mixture of old architecture as well as new. Oh and four seasons. and on and on and on....Now I'll give some positives regarding LA. LA does have great natural beauty, with the mountains in the background. It has nice beaches. The Santa Monica pier, The sunset strip, world class sports teamssrry running out of room talking about NY, but La has some really cool things as well, but one big con is all the plastic people..la la land is very annoyin. And a big con for NYC is they do have a superior attitude towards others but so dont LA. They both have more cons but i seriously ran out of room will get to those another time. hope this helps

[NJ Chutzpah]

When did glendale become all armenian?

Isnt Paul Walker from glendale, but I doubt he grew up in an armenian nabe

No one on the LA forum will answer that question

[bmwguydc]

Yes, Paul Walker is from Glendale.

Glendale is a city of nearly 200,000, and it has a huge proportion of Armenians per capita. Parts of the city that are south of the 134 are not as nice as those that are on the north side of town, nearer the hills, close to La Crescenta, where houses run to seven figures.

Generally speaking, Glendale does not come to mind when one is considering the wealthier Valley communities that surround Los Angeles, which in the Valley area in which Glendale is situatied would constitute Toluca Lake and parts of nearby Studio City, especially those parts used for television families' house exterior shots. Parts of nearby San Gabriel Valley communities of Pasadena and South Pasadena are also more exclusive, as are San Marino and Brdbury, but SM and Bradbury are much smaller in population and not as diverse as Glendale.

[NJ Chutzpah]

is Paul Walker Armenian?

[bmwguydc]

If memory serves, I think he's of German and Irish ancestry. Walker is his real name, not a stage name.