What’s wrong with Los Feliz? (Los Angeles, San Diego: living in, price, move to)

[Vic Romano]

Originally Posted by Losfrisco

Though not East L.A., pretty sure I’ve heard the area referred to as “the east side” several times.

Never heard that and whomever called it that is completely wrong.

Originally Posted by Texamichiforniasota

For the hills, they've always been nice, for the flats, they went through a period of decline, but gentrification was complete by probably 2005 for the Los Feliz flats and 2010 for Silver Lake.

Yes, the portions along Sunset Blvd. for Los Feliz and Silverlake have gentrified. The area of Silverlake close to the reservoir has always been desirable.

[vincenze]

Some people say that it's the 101 that divides the good and bad areas in LA.
It's usually hotter east to the 101. It's important for those who like to wear shorts all year round, even in February.

[Losfrisco]

Originally Posted by Vic Romano

Never heard that and whomever called it that is completely wrong.



Yes, the portions along Sunset Blvd. for Los Feliz and Silverlake have gentrified. The area of Silverlake close to the reservoir has always been desirable.

https://www.laweekly.com/city-declar...-the-eastside/


It’s definitely a thing.

It’s not correct, just like Ohio really isn’t “Midwest” but appears to a part of L.A.s wider rebranding.

[Texamichiforniasota]

Originally Posted by Losfrisco

https://www.laweekly.com/city-declar...-the-eastside/


It’s definitely a thing.

It’s not correct, just like Ohio really isn’t “Midwest” but appears to a part of L.A.s wider rebranding.

Haha, love the April Fool's Day article making fun of people who call these neighborhoods the East-side. Great satire, especially the part about having the Army Corps of Engineers moving the LA River to the West so the neighborhoods could really be the East-side.

[Miss Pip]

Originally Posted by Vic Romano

Never heard that and whomever called it that is completely wrong.



Yes, the portions along Sunset Blvd. for Los Feliz and Silverlake have gentrified. The area of Silverlake close to the reservoir has always been desirable.

It's definitely a thing. I recently saw an article about this and now theres people calling it "the fake east-side"

[TripleSec]

Los Feliz is really very nice. Problem is, it is surrounded by crap.

[Losfrisco]

Originally Posted by Miss Pip

It's definitely a thing. I recently saw an article about this and now theres people calling it "the fake east-side"

Its a branding move to give Los Feliz/Echo Park/Silver Lake (and downtown by proxy) destination status like L.A. west of La Brea.

[Vic Romano]

Originally Posted by Losfrisco

Its a branding move to give Los Feliz/Echo Park/Silver Lake (and downtown by proxy) destination status like L.A. west of La Brea.

How silly. It doesn't need that.

[Chad Doheny]

Los Feliz is one of the best if not the best neighborhoods in LA anyone who's lived in LA longer than 10 years knows this

[Losfrisco]

Originally Posted by Miss Pip

Santa Monica sucks, it's touristy and has an increasing amount of drug addicts and criminals. Oh and human feces. Look up SantaMonicaProblems on instagram.

I personally enjoy the east-side i.e. highland park, eagle rock etc. and some of the fake east-side like Echo Park. Most of the shows I go to are in DTLA or close to Koreatown. Never ever Santa Monica. Westside is boring and flat. Manhattan Beach is nice though.

What I wonder is why Santa Monica is always getting lumped in with L.A. city.

Every time I see a Youtube "influencer" make a video about what they don't like about L.A. there's always a "lets say you live downtown and you want to go see your friend in Santa Monica, its 16 miles away and it takes you ....etc" example (and of course they won't take the Expo line).

Oh so you mean getting through the densest part of a city with 4 million people to another city 16 miles away takes a long time? Kind of seems like something that would happen anywhere the laws of physics apply.


At any rate I agree that SaMo really isn't much. The south bay beach cities seem to have way more character. SaMo has a theme park feel to the extreme.