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I don't belittle people, what are you talking about. I'm the one that has to deal with easterners obsessively reading into my bio and stalking me and making things personal with me all the time. Which I don't care for, its a forum, read sh-t and move on, Jesus who are you folks that vest your life into this sort of thing? Have a hobby? Career? Family to provide for? Lifestyle?
I just talk about cities and states. Sure, I may have at times belittled some places, which I don't regret doing at all and I meant every single word of it, just so you know. I would do it many times if I have to prove the point that the overhyped places on this forum are no oasis. I also don't believe in this "flyover country" thing, I think that's stupid, great cities can exist anywhere. However lets not exaggerate what I truly do.
The whole post was pretty much YOUR opinion. And you shoving YOUR opinion down someone else isn't going to do anything. If someone likes something for what it is, there's nothing right or wrong about that. You seem to think your opinion is greater than someone else's and in fact that yours is right and theirs is wrong. The fact is most of what goes on on this board is all subjective matter. Sure certain points can be proven with facts like raw data, but the majority of liking and disliking things are just all opinionated. So if the majority likes something, they aren't wrong, they just like it that way and you like it some other way.
As far as all your personal stuff goes, that's just wrong to do. I don't know why people get so personal on this board. There's a bunch of trolls on here that I call out from time to time, but there's really no reason to get into someones personal life over some debate over cities on the internet. That's a joke.
This is funny, considering how badly L.A. lords over most cities in popularity, desirability and COL.
Great. Now you can stop trying to convince us that L.A. is super urban.
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I wouldn't refer to dating Scarlet Joe as a "captive lifestyle" either, which is how you referred to the transit lifestyle earlier. That cracked me up.
Ever heard of Stockholm Syndrome? Some people love their captors, ya know.
The gentrification of DTLA is not a sign of Manhattanization. What arrogance. It's gentrification. It's taking place in cities all over the country, including New York. It isn't because everyone wants to be like Manhattan.
For L.A. to be more like Manhattan, it would have to take the vast majority of it's skyscrapers, nightlife, theaters, high end restaurants, museums, high end shopping, and tourist traps...and cram them into DTLA.
This shows Atlanta being ahead of LA. That's not a good look.
Los Angeles has 3.7 million people. Portland has 600,000 in approximately 134 sq. miles. That shouldn't be surprising. That would be like China boasting about defeating Equitorial Guinea in a ground war.
True but it also shows LA being heads and shoulders above Dallas and Phoenix, and a city closer to the middle of the pack than those cities at the bottom.
The gentrification of DTLA is not a sign of Manhattanization. What arrogance. It's gentrification. It's taking place in cities all over the country, including New York. It isn't because everyone wants to be like Manhattan.
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Actually that is exactly what's driving people to downtown LA, people want that urban "sex and the city" lifestyle
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For L.A. to be more like Manhattan, it would have to take the vast majority of it's skyscrapers, nightlife, theaters, high end restaurants, museums, high end shopping, and tourist traps...and cram them into DTLA.
Yes, we all know that produces a lifestyle that's very much inferior to driving from one "strip" to another.
But apparently some California posters on this Board want that "urban 'sex and the city' lifestyle."
True but it also shows LA being heads and shoulders above Dallas and Phoenix, and a city closer to the middle of the pack than those cities at the bottom.
So that basically elevates Los Angeles above Dallas and Phoenix to Atlanta status?
Funny, I just realized I have to respond for every L.A. poster's comments on this board. Where did you not learn how to formulate arguments, Bajan?
I disagree with Calison. There are some well-to-dos moving into pricey condos in South Park, but DTLA had a decidedly hipster vibe along Spring and Main Street these days. I much prefer it over the dump it was 16 years ago, but polished it's not, and the folks moving there aren't looking to make it so. The "Sex and the City" lifestyle exists mainly in the Westside, along the chic shops and outdoor cafes of Robertson Blvd. I wouldn't be surprised if the show's creators used that area for inspiration. DTLA is nowhere near as chic or high end, thankfully.
16th Street isn't suburban after Adams Morgan. WHAT? There is about 3/4 of a mile of continuous apartment buildings before you get to Rock Creek Park (16th & Arkansas Ave). From there, 16th Street runs adjacent (west side) to the park all the way into Silver Spring. The east side of 16th Street features houses with small yards. To me, it looks like parts of Chicago. A few miles up, one block east off of 16th Street there are rowhouses on 14th Street and then that turns into apartment buildings up past Military Road. You can walk (sidewalks) from 16th & K (DT DC) all the way into Maryland uninterrupted, which is about 6 miles give or take. Once you get into Maryland. It's very urban for a suburb. There's an elevated subway station (Silver Spring) as well as a vibrant downtown area. I thought you lived in DC at one time?
I lived in DC for 25 yrs. Maybe when you pass Irving or Park it definately drops off. Even from the White House to that point it doesn't cover a large area. I don't know of any main arterie from dt Los Angeles that drop off so significantly like the ones in DC. This is one of the reasons why you can't compare a huge city like LA to something so small like DC.
I lived in DC for 25 yrs. Maybe when you pass Irving or Park it definately drops off. Even from the White House to that point it doesn't cover a large area. I don't know of any main arterie from dt Los Angeles that drop off so significantly like the ones in DC. This is one of the reasons why you can't compare a huge city like LA to something so small like DC.
How can the urbanity "drop off" leaving from Downtown LA? It never starts in the first place.
How can the urbanity "drop off" leaving from Downtown LA? It never starts in the first place.
What a pair of clown shoes you are...
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