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But tying back in, Yeah, there are a lot of Californians who dont leave California. At all.
I work for a CA tech company in Texas. Whenever they visit here it's very often their first ever visit to Texas. That's crazy to me as I have probably flown between these two states 50+ times.
Not to say they don't travel, but I do find Californians very ignorant of middle America in particular. It's definitely a contributing factor to the toxic "red state vs blue state" mindset we have these days.
LA feels”America”. New York is entirely it’s own thing. Very unique to the USA. From the fact that the majority of households do not own a car, to the fact that majority rely on public transport to get around. NY flight guy to Dublin or Iceland is close to flight time to Cali (which it has common with other East coast cities - granted). The fact that the black population heavily consists of immigrants or first generation Folks From Caribbean or Africa. Etc etc. LA is much much closer to anytown USA than NY is. And that’s the delta.
Probably has a lot to do with weather….much easier for a NY’er to adapt to CA weather than vice versa. Don’t forget—a light January drizzle in LA is the lead news story under the caption “winter storm watch”.
Im in my 20s, so the whole “nyc and la are the best cities” are way outdated to people my age. So its definitely surprising with all the homerism and bloating. Its a very unpopular opinion that is exasperated on this forum that the vast majority of people do not agree with and get annoyed with.
There was no logic in comparing just these two metropolitan areas, which are mid at best. Its bolstering for no apparent reason. I just asked a question why SOME people are so obsessed with these just these two cities, and no others.. and c/d, like the real world would, delivered.
I think the point of this thread is obvious. New York and Los Angeles are our two largest cities, yet you'd be hard-pressed to name two major cities that are so completely different from each other. So the OP simply wanted to bring out how people felt when moving from one to the other. I've noticed that there have been some posters who moved from NY to LA, but I don't think there have been any that did it the other way around (excepting those who originated in NY, moved to LA, then moved back).
People actually consider 'NYC and LA' their two favorite cities in America??
Yes, apparently they do. Just because I'm not one of them does not invalidate anyone who does.
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What is it with c-d with grown men (I assume they are grown men?! Not some incels hiding behind the internet pretending to be a know-it-all?) passive-aggressively making side-eyed comment without directly quoting the person from which their said comment was originated? It feels so 9th grade school cafeteria mean girls’ whisper and gossip.
Yes NYC and LA are my two favorite cities in the U.S.A. I wasn’t born here and I love coastal cities, out and proud.
I lived more than half of my entire life in these two cities, I have very happy and beautiful memories & experiences, what’s not to love?!
I actually think it's touching, how you've described your feelings for both of these cities. I'm glad that you have such happy associations with them and I'm glad that you think so highly of them. I've never lived in either one, nor have I ever had any desire to live in either one. I used to love New York and visited it often. But it's been 10 years since I was there (not counting driving through it), and now I don't even want to go there anymore. I've only visited Los Angeles once, and while I enjoyed my visit, I don't have any desire to go there again.
But you know what? None of that detracts from your love of these cities.
More than 60% of Californians own passports (on par with NY, MA, and NJ). Californians do travel, just likely not to the east coast.
This isn't about international travel. It's NYC v LA. You just reinforced my point. NY'ers can speak from experience traveling and relocating to LA a lot more than the reverse.
It says NY'ers travel and like to try new things a lot more than Angelenos and Californians for that matter.
People from LA and Cali need to get out of their own state more and expand their horizons for a change.
This is a possibility.
Another possibility is that people residing in New York subconsciously realize that its just a bigger version of half a dozen other cities and want to see something truly unique.
This isn't about international travel. It's NYC v LA. You just reinforced my point. NY'ers can speak from experience traveling and relocating to LA a lot more than the reverse.
You said that Californians need to expand their horizon and implied that they don't travel or leave their state. That just isn't true.
Someone can be well traveled and have never visited NYC or the east coast. The two aren't mutually exclusive.
This is all based on conjecture anyway.
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