Does LA have an inferiority complex when it comes to NYC? (Los Angeles: apartments, income)

[readymade]

Originally Posted by MikeNigh

I think it's the opposite, NYC is afraid of LA. That is why they come over to LA and do grass roots propaganda. Same reason Philly is left out of every "NYC Movie" and they always go halfway to trenton or like in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World they went to CAMDEN?

The reason "NYC has the best pizza" is because it is a staple american food and every time you eat pizza NYC wants you to remember that it is better there. All propaganda to bring in the best talent and make them pay their salary in rent.

They are too different to compare.

I love LA. I'll never leave again. But, in all fairness, NYC DOES have better pizza. And bagels. And Italian food.

For me, that's not enough to deal with the rest of it. But, different strokes, I guess. I weigh less here in LA than I did on the east coast, heh.

[PDF]

I think it's normal. But the two cities are so different from each other. It may also be a matter of LA residents not appreciating their own city that much.

Before moving to LA, I had been to NYC countless of times and LA just once. I do love NYC, but I love LA too. But NYC is much easier to love.

I still might move to NYC one day, depending on the lifestyle I want. It'd be very different than living in LA. I've been in LA for 6 weeks and am loving it, just taking things one day at a time.

However I will be in NYC for a trip again this summer, and I look at NYC way different than I do LA.

[Charles]

For every one Angelino who has moved to NYC there are at least 69 (obnoxious, chauvinistic) New Yorkers who have moved to LA.

[SoNorCal]

Originally Posted by hipcat

The problem comes from the LA locals themselves. There's a lack of civic pride in this city because it's so fragmented and transient.

Even when a New Yorker leaves NYC, they still carry the pride of being from New York. You don't see that pride when a Angelino leaves LA for somewhere else. It's like LA is a stop on the road for an entertainment career, or a landing point to immigrate.

As a local, I disagree. Although I live in the Bay Area now, I'm still proud to be from SoCal.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by hipcat

The problem comes from the LA locals themselves. There's a lack of civic pride in this city because it's so fragmented and transient.

Even when a New Yorker leaves NYC, they still carry the pride of being from New York. You don't see that pride when a Angelino leaves LA for somewhere else. It's like LA is a stop on the road for an entertainment career, or a landing point to immigrate.

I agree but for different reasons. People haven't moved en mass like new yorkers did to LA.
And, go to a Nuggets Lakers game in Denver, lots of LA fans there like there are yankee or red sox or mets or cubs fans at Dodger Stadium or Anaheim.

[nickdahammer]

I'm damn proud to be an Angeleno- no hesitation. I'm all for civic pride and that, but LA just isn't as into NYC as some would think. Why should we be?

[BarcelonaFan]

Originally Posted by MikeNigh

I think it's the opposite, NYC is afraid of LA. That is why they come over to LA and do grass roots propaganda. Same reason Philly is left out of every "NYC Movie" and they always go halfway to trenton or like in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World they went to CAMDEN?

The reason "NYC has the best pizza" is because it is a staple american food and every time you eat pizza NYC wants you to remember that it is better there. All propaganda to bring in the best talent and make them pay their salary in rent.

There is that issue. My god is there a huge propaganda wagon pushing NYC as the greatest thing ever since Jesus Christ. It gets really really annoying. Then the whole LA sucks it has no culture image from Hollywood writers who spend way too much time in West LA and think the rest of LA is a ghetto wasteland.

I also have to agree about Philly. NYC and Philly are like an hour and a half apart and people go back and forth all the time. There is never any mention of it in NYC movies but jersey and Boston are more.

NYC is a great city but they overstate it way too much and downplay LA way too much in the media.

I also think its because a lot if Hollywood writers and directors and producers are from NYC so they just ape on NYC in movies. Woody Allen and Robert Deniri talk about NYC in their movies like its a hot chick, they can't contain themselves. It gets annoying.

[BRinSM]

LA is its own world. in my circle, people talk about NYC for traveling or business purposes, but it's not glorified by any means. there is certainly no inferiority complex that I have picked up on. what i like about LA is the general lack of pretense with regard to other cities. we're relatively close to few other large cities but we couldn't care less. SD, an after thought. SF, thanks for the tech and that's about it. Vegas, a fun weekend away. Phoenix, blah.

The other thing about LA is that residents understand that the city has plenty of warts are mostly okay with it. we don't take the city too seriously and live our lives accordingly.

[Ghostly1]

Have you never been to New York?

[5pyg1a55]

I wonder how many Angelinos have visited their beautiful historic Central Library? Or even knew they had one? Or that it's the largest public library in the West?

Average New Yorkers and other "legacy staters" generally know details of their city and state's histories and landmarks, which helps to foster that sense of civic pride that lacks in Southern California. (by "civic pride" I mean a cohesive sentiment shared by the whole population, not individuals. There's nothing like that here.)