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No city has the combination of the mountains, ocean, Hollywood scene entertainment and the urban sprawl LA does. Vegas is nothing like LA because it relies on casinos and tourist mostly for its industry, Phoenix is the closest scenery wise but it does not have an ocean and Atlanta is only like LA because of the sprawl but then again just my two cents and opinion. Have a blessed day- RL
No city has the combination of the mountains, ocean, Hollywood scene entertainment and the urban sprawl LA does. Vegas is nothing like LA because it relies on casinos and tourist mostly for its industry, Phoenix is the closest scenery wise but it does not have an ocean and Atlanta is only like LA because of the sprawl but then again just my two cents and opinion. Have a blessed day- RL
If LA was utopia then why are Angelino moving to Phoenix Atlanta Vegas in droves? Phoenix and Vegas is a better LA without no beach
If LA was utopia then why are Angelino moving to Phoenix Vegas in droves? Phoenix and Vegas is a better LA without no beach
Pretty sure he wasn't calling L.A. "utopia". The way I read it is that Vegas and L.A. have extremely different economies. And that's just one of many, many big differences.
People are moving to these cities for lower COL and because they're the next closest cities. Besides, I don't think too many people are moving to Vegas from anywhere these days. You're talking about 5-6 years-plus ago. Vegas' boom days are well behind them.
People from L.A. are also moving "in droves" to many, many other cities all over America. If you think Phoenix and Vegas are "better L.A.'s", then I don't know what to tell you. Sure, if you think living in a place where the temperatures stay in the triple digits for half the year is bliss, don't mind having a big shortage of culture, appreciate the fact that most of what you see around you has only been built in the last 30 years, love transient populations with almost zero native culture, and love sterile cookie-cutter stucco monotony... then I guess so.
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If LA was utopia then why are Angelino moving to Phoenix Atlanta Vegas in droves? Phoenix and Vegas is a better LA without no beach
I wouldn't call LA utopia by a long shot, but I would say its the best place I've lived so far.
To answer your question about why people move though, its simple: cost of living. LA now has the most expensive housing in the country- not in absolute terms, but in terms of % of income that the average household in LA spends on rent or mortgage. On average, each household here now spends 42.6% of their income on housing if they purchased their home, and 47.9% of their income on housing if they're renting. Its great to live here, but if your spending so much of your income to do it that you're not really living but instead are just surviving, what's the point? A lot of people just give up and move to a cheaper market.
I was thinking more like a fusion of Houston + Phoenix + El Paso + San Diego.
Houston : Downtown/Central/South LA Phoenix : West LA/North LA/San Fernando Valley El Paso : East LA/Inland Empire San Diego : Beach areas/San Gabriel Valley + other outer suburban areas
I was thinking more like a fusion of Houston + Phoenix + El Paso + San Diego.
Houston : Downtown/Central/South LA Phoenix : West LA/North LA/San Fernando Valley El Paso : East LA/Inland Empire San Diego : Beach areas/San Gabriel Valley + other outer suburban areas
Would be cool if Houston had a neighborhood approaching the density and transit-oriented-ness of a Hollywood or K-town.
Would be cool if Houston had a neighborhood approaching the density and transit-oriented-ness of a Hollywood or K-town.
Houston does have a neighborhood at least approaching the density part of Hollywood. Gulfton, with an average density of 14,000 per square mile in the 2010 census. And I've read that more recently it's something like 18,000 per square mile. Still not as dense as Hollywood or K-town, but more dense than anything in Phoenix. Definitely not very transit-oriented though, aside from bus lines.
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Houston does have a neighborhood at least approaching the density part of Hollywood. Gulfton, with an average density of 14,000 per square mile in the 2010 census. And I've read that more recently it's something like 18,000 per square mile. Still not as dense as Hollywood or K-town, but more dense than anything in Phoenix. Definitely not very transit-oriented though, aside from bus lines.
Yeah Gulfton has all of those apartment complexes... Kind of reminds me of the low-rise part of Park La Brea or even Baldwin Village. Definitely more dense than anything in Phoenix.
Also it seems like Houston's Midtown will eventually get pretty dense and already has a LRT line. Difference between it and a neighborhood in Central LA is that most of the urban structures in Houston are going to be new construction while in Los Angeles it will be a mix of old construction and new construction. Most of these cities being compared to LA just don't have the "old bones" Los Angeles has, perhaps with the exception of Atlanta.
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