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Well, it does make sense. You'd want to make things as close to you as possible in a freezing cold or humid area. Who wants to walk long stretches through that?
It's not really because of cold, it's becuase they tend to be older and have been developed longer. But my point it, that with cities like LA and SD that have such wonderful weather, they really should have more people walking out and about. People tout how the weather is so much better, yet when you drive in many parts of LA and most of SD you would think differently.
But this is my thing though. When I think walkable I like it to mean that I see other people walking around me as well, that everything is close and aesthetically pleasing. That if I decide I don't want to walk, there is always a bus or train stop near by. I am not thinking of the weather.
I much rather walk on a dense vibrant street with people shopping and out and about at 32 degrees than walking with almost no one else around with strip malls surrounding me all around me at 70 degrees.
I think people in warmer climates treat the cold as it's some deadly virus. If millions of people in this country and across the world can live in cities that have cold climates and walk, then really the question comes down to adaptablity. Either man up or stop fearing the cold. Our ancestors handled the ice age and we can't handle walking down 5-6 blocks at 32 degrees? Give me a break!
Eh but you can do it from May to September in Chicago as well. I understand it's your preference.
But there is also something special in October where you walk around in a sweater on a sunny day with all the fall foilage around you and crunching the leaves as you walk and seeing kids playing in the leaves.
Or in April when everything is coming back to life and all the trees you pass by are coming back to life, birds singing, baby animals emerge and scatter as you approach them.
Or in December I will never forget, a few days before Christmas, I was walking in downtown Chicago with all the Christmas decorations out, Christmans shoppers packing the streets, Christmas music, and it started snowing and it was truly one of the most beautiful experiences ever. Stopping at the German market to get a hot chocolate and take in all the snow falling, the people walking buying xmas gifts, the music playing. It was magical.
To me those are walking experiences that SoCal can never provide. To each their own and I love SoCal, I just hate it when people view the seasons as this horrid and virus like epidemic that plagues the colder climate cities.
I absolutely love autumn attire. I think it's the best kind of seasonal fashion out there!
And you just best described the true beauty of 'four season' weather! I NEED MY COLORFUL FOILAGE
Oh come on but it's not the same. This is like saying LA has palm trees and someone from Houston says oh yeah we have that experience too. It's not the same.
In LA it's not all over the place. In places like Chicago and NYC about 95% of the trees shed their leaves in the fall, creating a total experience. I mean you don't see this in LA:
Oh come on but it's not the same. This is like saying LA has palm trees and someone from Houston says oh yeah we have that experience too. It's not the same.
In LA it's not all over the place. In places like Chicago and NYC about 95% of the trees shed their leaves in the fall, creating a total experience. I mean you don't see this in LA:
I didn't realize so many people in LA hated Chicago. I don't know why, insecure that people consider Chicago to be more walkable than LA?
This is city data. IRL Chicago almost never comes up in normal conversation out here, but when it does it's mostly positive comments from people that have been there. But in my experience not many people from LA have ever been to Chicago compared to NYC or SF. Could just be me, but Chicago is pretty much off the radar within my social circle. Really the only cities that I hear about in my circle (unless someone is from there) are California cities, Portland, Seattle, Texas cities, Atlanta, and maybe DC.
I am sorry, but you still can't compare Autumn in LA to autumn in NYC, Chicago, Boston, etc. It's not the same and yeah this pics show there certainly is notable foilage but it's nowhere near as much as the colder climate cities. The entire cities lose their leaves, just not half or some of them.
I am sorry, but you still can't compare Autumn in LA to autumn in NYC, Chicago, Boston, etc. It's not the same and yeah this pics show there certainly is notable foilage but it's nowhere near as much as the colder climate cities. The entire cities lose their leaves, just not half or some of them.
I am sorry, but you still can't compare Autumn in LA to autumn in NYC, Chicago, Boston, etc. It's not the same and yeah this pics show there certainly is notable foilage but it's nowhere near as much as the colder climate cities. The entire cities lose their leaves, just not half or some of them.
I was the very one who thought I would miss autum when I moved to LA but that went out the window fast. LA is beautiful in the fall. Not many deciduious trees but clear blue skies, cool crisp nights and a continuious array of beautiful fall flowers and shrubs. So yes I love fall back east but after the leaves fall everything is brown and bare. No flowers anywhere. No green. Fall and winter is actually my favorite time of year in LA.
I was the very one who thought I would miss autum when I moved to LA but that went out the window fast. LA is beautiful in the fall. Not many deciduious trees but clear blue skies, cool crisp nights and a continuious array of beautiful fall flowers and shrubs. So yes I love fall back east but after the leaves fall everything is brown and bare. No flowers anywhere. No green. Fall and winter is actually my favorite time of year in LA.
Me too. That is when I tend to go on ridiculously-long walks, like from Hollywood / Vine to the Pacific Design Center and back. The weather is so perfect, even a sweaty guy like me can walk for miles on end without breaking a sweat.
In fact, I sort of dislike this time of the year in Los Angeles. Never rains, kinda hazy, too hot (and it is stickier than you'd think), the ****-smell really starts to kick up.
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