Where did everyone get this idealized image of SoCal?

<p>Umm...what? What SoCal do you drive through? :p</p>

<p>hahaaa</p>

<p>oh man, that made me laugh. </p>

<p>but i mean, the buildings are all modern and orange and bright. its always REALLLLLLLLY SUNNNNNNNY and DRYYYYYYYYYYY.</p>

<p>Better dry than 90% humidity. :p</p>

<p>ok whatever.</p>

<p>Though Ive never been to all of them, here is my ideal list of cities</p>

<ol>
<li>New York City</li>
<li>Los Angeles</li>
<li>Chicago</li>
<li>Washington D.C.</li>
</ol>

<p>Theres the list</p>

<p>but humidity only occurs in the summer. DRY SUNNNNNNNNY SAHARA DESERT WEATHER is year-round</p>

<p>My ideal list of cities </p>

<ol>
<li>NYC</li>
<li>LA</li>
<li>Boston</li>
<li>Chicago</li>
<li>Seattle</li>
<li>DC</li>
</ol>

<p>I love Seattle...and it doesn't rain as much as people think- NY and Miami get more rain than Seattle. It just gets a bad rep because it's always gloomy. lol</p>

<ol>
<li>NYC</li>
<li>Seattle</li>
<li>Boston</li>
<li>LA (minus all those 'underrepresented minorities'- LOL!)</li>
</ol>

<p>LA = amazing cus of the LAKERS </p>

<p>thers just so much going on in LA u cant help but be excited...i really hope i get in through appeal, i live in irvine and i DONT want to go to another bubble town in la jolla (UCSD)</p>

<p>Ummmm...more like:</p>

<p>LA = horrible cus of the LAKERS</p>

<p>hate to burst yallzzzz bubblezzzz but no one gives a crap what your ideal cities are...</p>

<p>hate to bust ur bubble but no one gives a crap about statements like yours.</p>

<p>Go play with urself or something.</p>

<p>well its true. the thread was fine until you had to go off on a tangent with your uninteresting little list :X</p>

<p>...or you could have ignored it. whys it so hard to scroll two inches down to ignore the lists?</p>

<p>Please, get that stick of your ass. OR. you could just go away-</p>

<p>Out of state people - never think SoCal as the "perfect place." Thank The OC for that and what Hollywood has been projecting the image of SoCal as the utopian society. Crap that. Downtown is pretty dirty. Pretty crowded and it's not uncommon to see Carl's Jr Big size soda cups rolling over or flyers on the street (like many other downtowns, i believe) </p>

<p>True, there are beautiful places too. Santa Monica's a good place to go. UCLA is truly in a good location, embraced by trees and all. Truly, West LA is pretty. Now USC is in a pretty bad location. Very dangerous, blah blah.</p>

<p>Weather's good. I hate summers. Sometimes it gets to dry. But still, LA is known for crime and pollution (smog)</p>

<p>Actually, more crime occurs at UCLA, Stanford, etc. than at USC. It's probably because UCLA is public property; bums off the street can wander on campus, and nobody has the power to stop them. But it's true, you can walk right off UCLA campus and be surrounded by beautiful streets and shopping whereas the USC neighborhood consists of working-class families and student housing.</p>

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It's probably because UCLA is public property; bums off the street can wander on campus, and nobody has the power to stop them.

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<p>Sorry, this is incorrect. I will refer you to the fact that UCPD is a state police agency with police powers throughout the state of CA (in other words, a legit police force unlike U$C public safety), and the CA penal code section 602 to prove that your statement is not true. UCLA's campus is actually private property (the hospital is also a private hospital) - shocking, isn't it?</p>

<p>Furthermore, if a student reports a vagrant on-campus, UCPD WILL respond. I should know, I worked with OCH and dealt with vagrants all the time. </p>

<p>I don't know that it's true that UCLA has more crime than USC. Let's compare the two campuses based on the 2004 figures-</p>

<p>[url=<a href="http://www.ucpd.ucla.edu/ucpd/clery.htm%5DUCLA%5B/url"&gt;http://www.ucpd.ucla.edu/ucpd/clery.htm]UCLA[/url&lt;/a&gt;]
[url=<a href="http://capsnet.usc.edu/DPS/StreetSmart/PDF/2004StreetSmart.pdf%5DUSC%5B/url"&gt;http://capsnet.usc.edu/DPS/StreetSmart/PDF/2004StreetSmart.pdf]USC[/url&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p>

<p>It seems that the only figures that are higher at UCLA are burglary and liquor law non-arrests. </p>

<p>Either campus seems pretty safe to me.</p>

<p>USC has one of the safest campuses of all colleges in the US due to the fact that it's located in the heart of LA, USC becomes more aware of faculty and student protection. Well, outside is a different story.</p>

<p>For some reason, everyone I know that is not from SoCal thinks that ALL of LA is ghetto because of movies like Boyz n The Hood and Menace II Society. Also I guess in ERs and stuff Doctors call gun shot deaths "LA naturals". Some people I know from out of state were concerned that I wanted to go to UCLA because they thought it was "near Compton". I said, "no, it's about 30 miles away". They still thought that was scary. They don't know that 30 miles in LA might as well be halfway across the world.</p>