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Old 06-28-2016, 10:22 AM
 
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I work in Tech, DTLA. I don't understand why it it's only a hot bed for baby boomers chatting Brexit over crepes. With all the new commercial space being developed, residential towers going up, and pre-existing Metro connections...it should be a millennial wet dream.
DTLA is very expensive. It's a stressful place to live. You can't walk to your local Whole Foods or organic coffeehouse without getting accosted by an army of junkies. It's dirty. It's polluted. It's filled with traffic and one way streets.

Why pay 3-4k for a one bedroom there when you can pay the same for peaceful, clean, quiet (and still filled w/amenities) in the Westside?
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Old 06-28-2016, 10:30 AM
 
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I work in Tech, DTLA. I don't understand why it it's only a hot bed for baby boomers chatting Brexit over crepes. With all the new commercial space being developed, residential towers going up, and pre-existing Metro connections...it should be a millennial wet dream.
Don't you mean texting over crepes? Chatting means putting your phone away and actually....wait for it...intereacting with the people you're with.

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DTLA is very expensive. It's a stressful place to live. You can't walk to your local Whole Foods or organic coffeehouse without getting accosted by an army of junkies. It's dirty. It's polluted. It's filled with traffic and one way streets.

Why pay 3-4k for a one bedroom there when you can pay the same for peaceful, clean, quiet (and still filled w/amenities) in the Westside?

No kidding, try as they may downtown LA isn't Manhattan. It never will be, and that's OK. The beauty of living here is you can have both the city, and nature, and everything in between.

You can even live close to downtown and still live in an area that gives you some feel of peace and quiet.
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Old 06-28-2016, 10:49 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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DTLA is very expensive. It's a stressful place to live. You can't walk to your local Whole Foods or organic coffeehouse without getting accosted by an army of junkies. It's dirty. It's polluted. It's filled with traffic and one way streets.

Why pay 3-4k for a one bedroom there when you can pay the same for peaceful, clean, quiet (and still filled w/amenities) in the Westside?
Some people like how urban DTLA is. I know I'd personally would rather live in DTLA before the Westside.
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Old 06-28-2016, 11:08 AM
 
Location: Downtown Los Angeles, CA
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Hard to say for sure. I would think the residential towers would mostly be filled by younger people, but not sure. I don't think DTLA is ideal for most family people with kids right now, still pretty gritty.

Also those baby boomers chatting about Brexit over crepes, maybe they don't live in DLTA but work there.
Many times more people works in DLTA versus live there.
I'm the epitome of what LA labels the infamous techie millennial transplant. Late 20's, no kids, works in tech, healthy income, lives urbanly, takes the metro, flew in from the Midwest, wear stupid shirts with donuts on them...the whole nine yards. I spend 75% of my office time in DTLA, 25% in Santa Monica. To me DTLA has a ton of appeal, but to others in my generation, the fact you're not 14mi away in Silicon Beach fosters a fear of missing out. So I'm not convinced DTLA will ever reach the level of tech action in Silicon Beach.


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Are there really tech companies in DTLA besides less-than-10-employee startups? I have never heard of one. Tons in other areas, but nothing in DTLA.

I would love for DTLA to become more of a hub and move traction from the west side.
There definitely are, but the overwhelming density of startups in Santa Monica dwarfs DTLA's numbers.

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DTLA is very expensive. It's a stressful place to live. You can't walk to your local Whole Foods or organic coffeehouse without getting accosted by an army of junkies. It's dirty. It's polluted. It's filled with traffic and one way streets.

Why pay 3-4k for a one bedroom there when you can pay the same for peaceful, clean, quiet (and still filled w/amenities) in the Westside?
Exactly. I love the idea of the Metropolis development, [hell, I can see it from my office windows right now] but $550k for a 500sqft studio? That's West Side money, and the West Side still has much more appeal to the masses.
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Old 06-28-2016, 03:41 PM
 
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Will it take away demand Silicon Valleys, will dramatically change areas such Culver City?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Beach
Make housing more expensive probably
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Old 06-28-2016, 06:59 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles (Native)
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adr3naline, maybe they have that mentality because most of them are transplants and they can't imagine "LA" without being by the beach ?

Also despite being expensive downtown is still pretty gritty , like others said if they are going to be paying $3000 for an apartment might as well live on the Westside .

It's funny because I remember when downtown wasn't hip at all , most people wouldn't think of hanging out there let alone live there .
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Old 06-28-2016, 07:00 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles (Native)
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One reason DTLA might be less than appealing to people ..

85-year-old man brutally beaten in downtown attack dies - LA Times
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Old 06-29-2016, 08:09 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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One reason DTLA might be less than appealing to people ..

85-year-old man brutally beaten in downtown attack dies - LA Times
Do people on the Westside not get brutally attacked and/or killed?
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Old 06-29-2016, 08:17 AM
 
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Do people on the Westside not get brutally attacked and/or killed?
Their money and black cards act as body armor
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Old 06-29-2016, 10:16 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles (Native)
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Do people on the Westside not get brutally attacked and/or killed?
Violent crime in downtown LA shot up 52% in 2015!

So while prices have risen higher and higher crime has skyrocketed!

Not the way things generally are supposed to happen . Usually you would think higher prices and more development would bring crime down

and yes even LAPD has connected the rise of crime with the homeless population

Let's face it if they said they were going to develop skid row and the SROS and not let people turn downtown into a tent city crime would go down .

Violent, Property Crime Soar in Downtown L.A. | News | ladowntownnews.com
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