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Because there are tourists who apparently can't handle driving through the blight! For God's sake man! Haven't you met these mysterious tourists? Haven't they converted you to hating LA with their mystical anecdotes of navigating Los Angeles' seedy neighborhoods and becoming disenchanted?? Surely, you've come across them. Surely.
Speaking as someone who has never visited LA, I have the impression it's fake, celebrity obsessed, status oriented, smoggy, and totally sprawled out. We probably don't see the good side of it. For Detroit, many of us picture abandoned buildings, high crime, cold, grey winters, and Robocop. For whatever reason people tend to focus on the negative in these cities, thus the reason they show up on "Most Hated" lists. Granted stereotypes usually exist for a reason.
No, trust me, most people are just jealous. They'll try and deny it using every distracting and random thing they can think up, distancing themselves as much as they possibly can from the jealousy factor, but it's always there, right underneath the surface.
If I didn't live in LA and lived in a place like Chicagno or NYPuh-leez, I'd be pretty damn discontent myself.
Jealousy, I agree. A lot of people hate LA b/c there's no city in America Like it. Sprawled, Car Cultured, Freeway Capital,Poor Public Trans, Etc with all that the metro is still Denser than New Yorks Metro, Yet were described as sprawl. That's why LA is unique. I don't even think there's a city in the world like Los Angeles! LA is it own kind of Beast. Just like how NY is its own kind of Beast.
Jealousy, I agree. A lot of people hate LA b/c there's no city in America Like it. Sprawled, Car Cultured, Freeway Capital,Poor Public Trans, Etc with all that the metro is still Denser than New Yorks Metro, Yet were described as sprawl. That's why LA is unique. I don't even think there's a city in the world like Los Angeles! LA is it own kind of Beast. Just like how NY is its own kind of Beast.
Speaking as someone who has never visited LA, I have the impression it's fake, celebrity obsessed, status oriented, smoggy, and totally sprawled out. We probably don't see the good side of it. For Detroit, many of us picture abandoned buildings, high crime, cold, grey winters, and Robocop. For whatever reason people tend to focus on the negative in these cities, thus the reason they show up on "Most Hated" lists. Granted stereotypes usually exist for a reason.
Reading this from someone who has never visited LA certainly listed the negatives and not the positives. Looks like you've read some of the posts on this site and base LA of their impressions and not yours. Just another way to put the city down I got cha! If you never visited LA what gives you the impressions that it is fake, Celebrity obsessed, status oriented, smoggy, and totally Sprawled out?
A bad American city would be Chicago. It's the nation's murder capital, has suffered the greatest population loss, is the most segregated city in America, it's the most polluted city, and has been rated America's most miserable city.
Oh, and the Governor is in jail, and the Mayor is on his way.
greetings osito you really got this one but too bad nyc had the most murders of 2009, and chicago has not had the largest pop. loss
People keep saying the reason people hate LA is jealousy but almost everyone I've met from San Diego has had a lot of negative things to say about the city. They said it's dirty and over crowded. But I can't say anything negative myself. I haven't made the trip out to Southern California yet.
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For whatever reason people tend to focus on the negative in these cities, thus the reason they show up on "Most Hated" lists. Granted stereotypes usually exist for a reason.
you really got this one but too bad nyc had the most murders of 2009, and chicago has not had the largest pop. loss
