What's living in LA really like? I know I have terminal movie brain but it seems so interesting after watching the dozens and dozens of movies set there.
>>2823753It's a hellscape. There's permanent gridlock on the highways that's why it takes hours to get anywhere; it's expensive as fuck especially for the type of housing that the average person can afford; and like any West Coast city it's filled to the brim with retards, fuck ups, and losers with delusions of grandeur. The only thing it has going for it is the weather and the food scene.
>>2823783If you're a loser fucking incel you'll probably feel bitter about 10 million people living better lives than you are in close proximity.He is correct about it being expensive. I probably wouldn't move here unless I had a job making 6 figures, and even then I'd get roommates.You need to have a good idea of where you are working before you settle on a place, having a shitty commute here is soul sucking.I work from home 3 days a week and have a 15min commute the other 2, it's not bad. Would not leave because there are a lot of work opportunities here in my industry. People love to talk shit about LA but most people here enjoy it. It's far from perfect and our government sucks but everywhere has problems.
>>2826954is the crackhead situation as bad as american youtubers make it out to be?
>>2823753There's better places to live in Southen California, unless you get a high paying job in LA. (high paying is anything over $150k)
>>2826960The homeless situation is horrible and it shows how far our government and society has failed. HOWEVER, compared to most American cities it's not really anything to be alarmed about. I've lived in LA for 20 years and I can't remember the last time I was approached or talked to by a homeless person. If you are a tourist walking 10 miles a day through the city you will encounter them more than the average resident, but ignore them like the rest of society has and you'll be fine. I have had much more negative encounters with homeless in NYC, Vegas, and Seattle. That could be partly because I was a tourist there and maybe a bit more naive. Visiting here you will see some tents on sidewalks, trash, possibly some unwanted nudity or drug use. More than likely none of them will want anything to do with you. Having said that... I would like them all to be put in a giant blender and fed to pigs.
>>2823753Similar to Miami where it’s a carscape hellhole full of people sleeping on the street and trash everywhere
Real answer OPIt entirely depends your job and housing situation. That's it. I know people who live with their parents in a pseudo-duplex or converted 1950's garage to a home, they pay basically fuck all in rent and expect the home to be passed down to them. They work making 18/hr at subway or similar and love it. They will praise it as they live far from the problem areas or well off the main streets and underpasses that the problems fester. They know their sitting on at minimum 800k to sell when their parents croak.On the flip side I know people making 80k/salary who are FUCKED. Apartments are getting more rent controlled so you might make just enough to be outpaced for some of those decent 1400-1600/mo places and forced to a 2200+ places; before utilities or WORSE you get one of those 150sq ft hell holes with shared kitchens and shit. You're also in the RTO group because LA companies hate to feel like they are losing investments on the leased space or lose tax gains. Commutes suck, parking suck, public transportation sucks; but hey THE WEATHER IS NICE.As far as life outside work, the weather is predictable, the beaches are what they are, events for anything happen there. You just need to realize that everyone else has the exact same idea as you though, if you *think* something won't be busy lmao lose that mindset yesterday. After COVID people are tolerable to full TDS mode; many people are "richpoor" rich by other places standards but poor enough to not do too man nice things or leave the LAX area.Not sure what your specific question is OP it's pretty broad, if you want "WOW MOVIE REFERENCE!" place sure see it all the time.
Socal was terrible. Too many losers with a ugly asian women. San diego zoo was cool though
One thing a lot of people don't expect is the gender ratio in LA is really bad. Like, there's probably 120 guys for every 100 girls in the 20-35 age bracket. That's actually the case for most cities in the Western United States. Seattle and SF are even worse.East coast cities are the opposite, especially NYC and DC.You'd think LA would have a surplus of women because it's super female-coded. Soft people sipping green juice and doing yoga, lush mild climate, beaches and flowers and pretty little instagram hikes. And NYC would be the opposite since it's so male-coded: massive complex infrastructure, trains roaring overhead, monolithic stone buildings, gritty people, hard city culture. But the people who move there do so because they're *attracted* to that vibe, not because they feel it represents them. Men move to LA because LA is a beautiful, capricious woman. Women move to New York because NYC is a mysterious, powerful man.
when i went to san francisco the other travellers I met all said LA wasn't really worth visiting
>>2827034LA is arguably the second most important city in the Western hemisphere. It has anything you could possibly want or imagine. The difference is, unlike New York or Paris or Tokyo you're not just going to stumble upon cool stuff, mostly thanks to the car-centric layout. You can't just get lost and wander around; you need to know where you're going.
>>2827037which makes for most people, probably not worth visiting
>>2826954>If you're a loser fucking incel you'll probably feel bitter about 10 million people living better lives than you are in close proximity.I feel like in LA, billionaires can live "close" to homeless people without ever having to interact with them. It's like every kind of people living technically in the same city, but it's not a city because there's no place where all these kinds of people would ever meet. It's more like connecting to a server. You share it with other IP adresses, you're connected to it but not to the other IP connected to the server.
>>2827051This is the whole appeal of LA btw
>>2827034funny german exchange students I met in toronto said the same thing, that LA was mediocre compared to san franciscomeanwhile I just associate san francisco with public defecation
>>2826985>ugly asian womenWhat do we do about the ugly asian woman problem?
>>2826954>If you're a loser fucking incel you'll probably feel bitter about 10 million people living better lives than you are in close proximity.Barely anyone is living a good life in a LA. Most people are there because they're stuck and cannot conceive of a different reality for themselves. The decent weather, the food, and the robust drug market sedate the people, and prevent them waking up to the fact that they lead banal and meaningless lives without a future. Every other person in that city has a vacant and dead look in their eyes, or they're an angry, embittered, and with a permanent chip on their shoulder. The city fucks them in every orifice, they feel it but they can't see it. >>2827037>LA is arguably the second most important city in the Western hemisphere.People who have never lived in other large metropolitan areas always expose themselves with this type of comment. LA is important because the media you consume says that it's important. The reality is that it's worn and blown out city with its best days long behind it. >>2827051>It's like every kind of people living technically in the same city, but it's not a city because there's no place where all these kinds of people would ever meet. Because it's a city of transients. There's no sense of community or a sense of what it means to be a Los Angelian. You see this same kind of dysfunctional social dynamic in Seattle and SF.
>>2827114Which city is more important, then? Houston? Chicago? Some latinx barrio city south of the border with zero cultural relevance outside the hispanosphere?
>>2827108Go to Irvine, Monrovia, Arcadia, really anywhere in the SGV... 10/10 asian girls everywhere
What OP asked "what's it like living there"Where the thread is "CAN I COOM IN WOMENZ THERE?"Every megacity is the same with dating, if you can't land a girl in one you won't land them anywhere. LA specifically has Hollywood mindset and if you're not 7 figures in already, gg move on. >>2827139Unless your gringo ass is willing to house their family any time any reason, good luck. Just move to San Antonio, go to some churches, and if someone suggests a K1 visa option roll with it. Done.
>>2827142What?
>>2823753San Diego is the only Cali city that's actually any good>No zoning=jobs can be close to homes=significantly reduced work related traffic>Beautiful weather>Mountains nearby>Tijuana right there to do fun dejen shit for cheap>Surfer bros and Mexicans instead of liberals
>>2823753Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.
>>2826960LA homeless are chill, they're usually on fent and weed 24/7 and just living in their own little world. homeless in denver and sf were way worse and seemed like they were smoking crack or meth and get aggro'd randomly. other than that LA's only real drawbacks are the traffic and the crime. crime usually comes looking for you so you can avoid it by just not being an easy mark for criminals or pressing people, and traffic can be avoided if you aren't a wageslave. >>2827386this is also true, SD is just a scaled down army-town version of LA and it's generally a nicer, safer place with better opportunities for career and personal growth. a lot of people just move to LA and get raped by reality and end up bitter faggots like this guy >>2823783
>>2823753After seeing this thread ,I decided to give True Detective Season 2 a rewatch.
>>2827139> Houston? Houston is a boring company town. It's a place where people go to raise families and build a career in oil & energy. The food scene is absolutely atrocious, same with Austin. The locals like to talk about their Tex-Mex, but it's nothing special and it's total shit compared to what you can find in Dallas. Chicago? Easily beats LA in importance. It's a city for hustlers; you can easily make a shit ton of money in that place if you have a modicum of drive and ambition, and willing to engage in some shady shit to get there. Rent is cheap compared to most global cities of its caliber. Food scene is okay and there's a lot of room for improvement, but there's always shit to do in that town. The people are okay if you can put up with weird oddball Lake culture. >>2827429>LA homeless are chill, they're usually on fent and weed 24/7 and just living in their own little world. homeless in denver and sf were way worse and seemed like they were smoking crack or meth and get aggro'd randomly. That's because the LA homeless are cowed into knowing their place. LAPD has zero patience for the homeless and they're given free reign by the city council to deal with homeless as they see fit. One of the upsides of a city run by open and unapologetic sociopaths, is that the local powerbrokers don't pretend to give a fuck about the downtrodden. Whereas in Denver, SF, and Seattle, they're full of virtue signaling shit libs that grant a lot of protections and privileges to the homeless, incentivizing them to engage in violent crime. >a lot of people just move to LA and get raped by reality and end up bitter faggots like this guyAnd yet you never denied a single thing that I said.
>>2823753>What's living in LA really like?Generic>>2823783>The only thing it has going for it is the weather and the food scene.The geography is nice too
>>2827512>And yet you never denied a single thing that I said.and you aren't denying being a bitter faggot kek. i said you got raped and were buttmad about it, not wrong.
>>2827518>and you aren't denying being a bitter faggot kek. i said you got raped and were buttmad about it, not wrong.Just like everyone who's ever lived in that city. That's the natural consequence of living in a mental asylum.
>>2827107i thought San Francisco was cool and didn't see any poo therein the last few months in Manchester, UK (not cool) i've seen 4 human poos on the street
>>2827034I’ll defend San Francisco to my dying day, but the SF-LA pseudorivalry (in which Bay Area denizens sneer at LA and SoCal in general as their inferiors; on the other side I don’t think LA thinks about San Francisco at all) has always been stupid and exaggerated, not to mention less and less factually defensible over the years. SF has better density, more attractive architecture, and arguably a prettier overall natural setting (although scattered parts of LA are at least as pretty, there might be 40 miles of ugly low-rise suburbia between two stunning natural viewpoints; SF is so much smaller and denser that the nice views are closer together and come off as more universal) as well as better/more comprehensive transit (although the LA Metro, or whatever they call the tram/light rail network, is getting better and better). So SF can offer tourists a more accessible destination that sometimes leaves a stronger ‘major global city’ impression than LA does, just because LA is so much more sprawling and suburban in character. LA comesacross (and sort of is) more like a big, largely residential region with terrible traffic than a coherent big city. But LA County, which contains the city proper but doesn’t even encompass all of the towns and cities popularly associated with Los Angeles within its metro area, has something like twelve times the population of San Francisco County. The city of Los Angeles itself is ~4X as populous as SF. So San Francisco is in reality a far more minor city than LA, it’s just that SF is easier to get around and has ten times the density. >t. Bay Area local who gradually came to understand and even enjoy LA
