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Old 09-20-2014, 09:18 AM
 
Location: New Orleans
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Where is L.A. on this list?

The 25 Most Economically Powerful Cities in the World - CityLab

It looks like it wouldn't be on this list lol.
What? We have the 3rd highest GDP in the WORLD

You clearly don't have any clue what you are talking about.
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Old 10-03-2014, 06:27 PM
 
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What? We have the 3rd highest GDP in the WORLD

You clearly don't have any clue what you are talking about.
YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING GO TAKE AN ECON COURSE. GDP means nothing, go look at GDP per capita. Thats why even though China has a high gdp it is still considered a developing nation. THAT BEING SAID. LA still looks like a developing nation. For example, in no other city can you drive for an hour and still be in the GHETTO. Also you can tell the poverty by the cars. There are teslas, yes, but there are A LOT of people that are driving cars under $2000 (and you just dont see that in the dc md va area anymore).

My theory of LAs development is that since LA is a fairly new city it is still going through the construction stage. They are still building LA, that is why it sometimes looks bare and desolate. Where as cities like DC or Madrid, Spain have been around for so long that they're passed the construction stage and are in the renovation stage. So there is a lot of flipping old houses into modern entities, and things related to this. I had a friend, la native, visit DC and she said that LA just has poor city planning.

Irvine is the closest thing that LA has in terms of development, but it's funny because every city's nice areas look like Irvine or better.

I made this post because I was shocked at all the poverty in LA, and the nonchalantness about a college education from the 18-22 y/o's. Why are people just starting their careers at 28 makes no sense to me.
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Old 10-03-2014, 06:34 PM
 
Location: Earth
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YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING GO TAKE AN ECON COURSE. GDP means nothing, go look at GDP per capita. Thats why even though China has a high gdp it is still considered a developing nation. THAT BEING SAID. LA still looks like a developing nation. For example, in no other city can you drive for an hour and still be in the GHETTO.
Limiting this to US cities: Atlanta, DC, Detroit, Chicago...

Irvine is the closest thing that LA has in terms of development, but it's funny because every city's nice areas look like Irvine or better.
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Irvine as an example of good city planning? Irvine's an example of everything that went wrong with suburbia in the last third of the 20th century. Sprawl city.
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Old 10-03-2014, 07:20 PM
 
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Come on now admit that Irvine looks nice. In DC/MD/VA we used to have shopping centers that looked like the ones in LA (ugly plastic signs), a row of 8-10 shops off of a main street, but they have renovated that in the past 20 years to shopping centres and brick signs instead of plastic. I am wondering what happened to California in the last 24 years. It seems that other cities have renovated itself but when I visit LA I feel like Im in 1990. I see the developing slowly happening, but its definitely behind for a world class city.
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Old 10-03-2014, 07:28 PM
 
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Culver city looks like booty except for fox hills mall. Beverly hills looks alright. I really like burbank, that is what I thought all of LA mimicked before I moved here. That one street in downtown looks okay, sort of close to the staples center. Some parts of santa monica look good, but beach cities in general look older. Marina del rey looks alright. Glendale can look nice, but some streets look vacant. Long beach does not look good at all. Hollywood looks good for what it is, its kept clean because its a tourist attraction. However, I see nothing that pops, that signifies "oh Im in La" from an architectural point of view, besides the cool looking highway.
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Old 10-03-2014, 07:34 PM
 
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LA got #10, I knew I wasn't the only one who felt like this hahaha.

THE TOP 10 UGLIEST CITIES IN THE WORLD
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Old 10-03-2014, 07:53 PM
 
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https://flic.kr/p/5g2pJS

Ugly lol.
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Old 10-03-2014, 08:05 PM
 
Location: Sacramento, Ca.
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This is starting to read as trollishly immature.
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Old 10-03-2014, 08:17 PM
 
Location: Pasadena, CA
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Cool photo series actually. And what exactly is wrong with you?
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Old 10-04-2014, 01:45 PM
 
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great photos!! i cannot wait to move to los angeles.
it seems to me to be a mixture of an older new york city(west side and village) and an older miami beach. i love all that oldness!! has lots of character and history.
los angeles is an old city and you must have an appreciation of it to love it.
i have not been to los angeles in decades but my best friends live there, or used to.
personally, the main reasons i am moving to la are the weather,history and the distinct character of the surrounding cities.
i used to live in tokyo and that is such a modern city. i always loved the areas outside of tokyo though, the old areas with the quaint shops and homes.
i love old!! different strokes for different folks.
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