<p>What would LA be like for someone coming from a town of 30k in a suburb of St Paul, MN?</p>
<p>I have a thread in the UCLA 2010 board about college life. Read it? (Shameless advertising)</p>
<p>whats it called? i see a few of yours but none of the titles caught my attention.</p>
<p>Los Angeles is like St. Paul but with 4500% more Asians. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Hahaha. LA life sucks, basically. (Not UCLA, city of LA)</p>
<p>My favorite thing is small town midwestern kids coming to LA seeking fame and what happens... :)</p>
<p>More minorities, more crime, culture shock, better weather. </p>
<p>Varied food, serious car culture, fewer natural blondes, better weather. </p>
<p>Beach, more expensive, more to do, better weather.</p>
<p>And Ben- I'm convinced that LA life would actually be really really effing fun if one had lots of money. Like, LOTS of money. It gets increasingly less fun as the income bracket lowers.</p>
<p>namaste,</p>
<p>Pfft...LA life sucks? NO WAI! YOU SUCK. :P</p>
<p>Seriously though, LA can seriously suck if you are without a car. If you have a car, however, LA is awesome (don't listen to namaste, he sucks.) Want to go museum hopping? Great! LA has more museums per capita than even the hoity toity New Yorkers! Want to go listen to Tchaikovsky in an outdoor amphitheater? Great! It's cheap to go to the Hollywood Bowl.</p>
<p>Movies? We got tons of theaters.
Beaches? Tons. Some are even clean.
Hiking? I know of some hidden gems just outside of the city that will keep the biggest nature nut busy for at least a day.
Shopping? Pfft. Easy.
Clubs? Hollywood.</p>
<p>I mean, what doesn't LA have, besides a decent mass transit system, affordable housing, and a newspaper that isn't in danger of vaporizing?</p>
<p>HMMM?!</p>
<p>It doesn't have UCLAri since you're... elsewhere.</p>
<p>La Jolla, I presume.</p>
<p>But yeah. LA sucks. But maybe that's just because I've lived here for nearly 21years. The novelty wears off, only after 16 years. :D</p>
<p>Meh. </p>
<p>Go live someplace that REALLY sucks. Like Karatsu, Japan. Then you'll know how awesome LA is.</p>
<p>After having spent some time in the summer in the 3rd world... yea LA is pretty awesome. I dunno, I've spent 21 years of my life growing up in LA (actually just outside of it in Long Beach), and it's just home. Really, it's more a fact of getting past the eccentricities more than anything. Once you're over the traffic, or the gangs, or things like that as being shocking, it's actually really nice. I mean, the weather's great, there's jobs, there's tons and tons of things to do, and for being a huge city, it could be faster paced. Some people just never get over the culture shock.</p>
<p>I think I read it best somewhere that the people of LA can be extremely self-centric, but at the same time be unthreateningly nice. It's just a weird, weird place. Some people hate it and some people love it. It really could be worse though.</p>
<p>Lol well Ari I haven't had the privelege of growing up in the western end of the valley... try growing up in the Westside (yes you get the irony, b ut with so many advantages comes some unforseen consequences)</p>
<p>though i fully admit, if i went to college even as close as claremont or irvine, i'd b e missing LA</p>
<p>Wait...growing up in the West Valley is a privilege? :confused:</p>
<p>Do you realize how boring my childhood was?!</p>
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<p>A professional football team? Not that I'm into that, anyway.</p>
<p>Great concerts, though. A huge plus.</p>
<p>Hahahaha. calabsas/woodland hills/winnetka/etc = 50's suburbia. i forgot.</p>
<p>Yeah I saw Mariah Carey the other night. Great concerts.</p>
<p>And you still have your sense of sight?</p>
<p>I've seen some of the costumes for that concert. And uh. </p>
<p>Just. </p>
<p>uh.</p>
<p>yeah.</p>
<p>costumes? i didn't know it was a KISS concert.</p>