Does LA rival NYC? Or closer to rivaling SF? (best, cost, people)
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Ehh..LA is also a MUCH larger entity (population and physical size) than Manhattan or San Francisco, to play devil's advocate. I took the liberty of trying to find an LA region the size of SF/Manhattan with the same sort of socio-economic status and I think the Westside comes reasonably close (albeit physically larger).
Westside - Mapping L.A. - Los Angeles Times Westside LA
Population: 529,427 (2000)
Size: 101.28 square miles
Education: 53.2% have a Bachelor's Degree or Higher
Income: ~$100,000 (don't have time to sift through the data for each individual neighborhood right now, but based on the data, it supports this)
I'll get house values later, when I have more time.
Well, I considered the Westside but after you look at the socio-economic demographic similarities between San Francisco and Manhattan, you can then point to lifestyle similarities and the physical similarities such as population density, percentage of households that live in multi-unit housing units, percentage of high income folks who walk to work, dont own vehicles, take transit on a regular basis etc.
But as far as wealth, LAs Westside is comparable--yes.
In many ways, the honest answer to this thread question would be that San Francisco almost like a hybrid of both NY and LA.
Everytime I come back to NYC from summer holiday, I find myself less and less interested in what's going on across the country or the world. I stop watching news and it just seems like nothing exists outside of NYC.
Everytime I come back to NYC from summer holiday, I find myself less and less interested in what's going on across the country or the world. I stop watching news and it just seems like nothing exists outside of NYC.
So strange.
Something about NYC..
Your mind is kept busy with all the activity that immediately surrounds you.
Newsflash: People in LA don't care about New York all that much.
Looking at its statistics, people in Los Angeles don't appear to think or care about much at all. It appears to be rather poor and underachieving. If Los Angelenos start thinking and caring about things perhaps it will finally attract big business and improve its laughably underachieving output.
Looking at its statistics, people in Los Angeles don't appear to think or care about much at all. It appears to be rather poor and underachieving. If Los Angelenos start thinking and caring about things perhaps it will finally attract big business and improve its laughably underachieving output.
Sorry, DC hasn't bailed out our financial and banking institutions like they did NYC. Your city failed the rest of the nation.
Last edited by RaymondChandlerLives; 09-19-2011 at 09:36 PM..
290 million Americans live somewhere other than the New York metro. You don't pay much attention to the rest of the country on a daily basis, but remember that the rest of us aren't paying much attention to you either. People tend to be concerned with their immediate lives, it's not something unique to NYC, as much as you'd like to think it is (no you're not special because of it, and no it doesn't mean that NYC is the ultra unique snow flake alpha+++ super city of all existence. It means that you're normal people like the rest of us).
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