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Old 05-10-2011, 04:29 PM
 
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Wow I completely forgot about that. Thanks for reminding me. I guess there will be buses at the metro stop that will take the people around the terminals
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Old 05-11-2011, 06:22 PM
 
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After visiting downtown today for quite a while, I have to say that our city needs a LOT of work
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Old 05-12-2011, 05:34 PM
 
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NYC and Chicago are dense. LA is vast.
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Old 05-12-2011, 06:35 PM
 
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I'd love to see LA look like both of those cities, yet still have the qualities that distinguish it from the 3.
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Old 05-13-2011, 06:08 AM
 
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Isn't LA county about the size of all the five boroughs combined? By downtown I mean the downtown area. NY's downtown is so vast that it occupies most of Manhattan. LA's downtown wouldn't even be as big as NY's financial district in Downtown.
No, nyc's 5 boroughs combined are slightly smaller than just the city of LA. LACounty is around 10 times bigger than nyc.
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Old 05-13-2011, 11:24 AM
 
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No, nyc's 5 boroughs combined are slightly smaller than just the city of LA. LACounty is around 10 times bigger than nyc.
If you are talking about "Land area" then you might be correct.

If you are talking about POPULATION then you NOT right. Most people refer to POPULATION when comparing the size of City A to City B.

POPULATION BY CITY
New York City = 8,175,000 (approx. 2010 census)
City of LA = 3,810,000 (approx. Jan. 2011, Calif. Dept of Finance)

POP. BY METRO AREA (OR CSA)
New York Metro Area = 18.9 million (2009 est.)
Los Angeles Metro Area = 17.8 million (2009 est.)

Doesn't mean one is better than the other...
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Old 05-13-2011, 11:40 AM
 
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If you are talking about "Land area" then you might be correct.

If you are talking about POPULATION then you NOT right. Most people refer to POPULATION when comparing the size of City A to City B.

POPULATION BY CITY
New York City = 8,175,000 (approx. 2010 census)
City of LA = 3,810,000 (approx. Jan. 2011, Calif. Dept of Finance)

POP. BY METRO AREA (OR CSA)
New York Metro Area = 18.9 million (2009 est.)
Los Angeles Metro Area = 17.8 million (2009 est.)

Doesn't mean one is better than the other...

LA County in square miles 4,752.32
new york city in square miles 468 (of which 165 miles are water)
LA City in square miles 499

California 39,000,000 (population)
New York 18,000,000

Metro Area? Does that include different states like New Jersey and Connecticut? Cause I could annex Arizona, Washington, and Oregon.

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Old 05-13-2011, 12:00 PM
 
Location: Living on the Coast in Oxnard CA
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LA is going to have a big highrise boom once the economic recovery gets rolling imo. gonna be bigger than the miami boom of the last 10 yrs.
Building booms normally happen just before the economy tanks. At every time in history when a high rise building boom happened that marked the end of the financial boom times. What normally happens is everyone wants to build the biggest building to show their wealth that they have accumilated. They forget what got them the wealth in the first place and start focusing on building taller and taller buildings. People want to time the market to make money, just watch what all the major players are doing with their money. If it isn't going into producing what ever it is that they make and being turned into tall buildings then it is time to liquidate your holdings in those companies.

LA is doing well as it is. Sure it is nice to have more tall buildings. Still what is the rental vacancy rate now? Do we need to expand right now?
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Old 05-13-2011, 12:04 PM
 
Location: Earth
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LA County in square miles 4,752.32
new york city in square miles 468 (of which 165 miles are water)
LA City in square miles 499

California 39,000,000
New York 18,000,000

Metro Area? Does that include different states like New Jersey and Connecticut? Cause I could annex Arizona, Washington, and Oregon.
NJ is right across the Hudson from NYC, and Hudson County is often called the "Sixth Borough". No more distant from Manhattan than most of Queens is.

AZ is not as close to LA as CT and especially NJ are to NYC. The areas of CA close to the OR border are rural (just like the areas of OR close to the CA border) and not close to any big city. The closest CA equivalent would be Tijuana being part of the San Diego Metro Area despite being in a different country.
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Old 05-13-2011, 12:35 PM
 
Location: L.A./O.C.
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If you are talking about "Land area" then you might be correct.

If you are talking about POPULATION then you NOT right. Most people refer to POPULATION when comparing the size of City A to City B.

POPULATION BY CITY
New York City = 8,175,000 (approx. 2010 census)
City of LA = 3,810,000 (approx. Jan. 2011, Calif. Dept of Finance)

POP. BY METRO AREA (OR CSA)
New York Metro Area = 18.9 million (2009 est.)
Los Angeles Metro Area = 17.8 million (2009 est.)

Doesn't mean one is better than the other...
LA city is over 4 million in population it was all over LA Times in 2009.
2011 estimate is about 4,100,000
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