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Originally Posted by BrendanMcGrail
I get out plenty, thanks. Caltech alone makes LA more important that most other cities in the US. Then add in tremendous cultural diversity and economic importance, and you've got something, even with crime (which is of historical significance in LA) you have an awesome city. As a socialist myself, I find LA somewhat lacking in politics, but if you move down to San Fransisco, there you have a glorious city.
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Wow, I REALLY disagree with you. Have you LIVED in L.A.? When I was in college in "The Southland" I lived by the beach in Malibu and even that didn't raise my appreciation of L.A. Los Angeles' smog gets worse every time I visit, to the point that it actually delayed my flight there out of Seattle in September. There are a few cool museums, but other than that there is very, very little culture, which is especially appalling considering how many people and ethnicities call it home. It has beaches, but too bad it's actually considered a health hazard to swim in the water. The only trees are palm trees and the only green you see is on the cars filling the freeways. And politics? What politics? You're lucky if you get to talk with someone who reads or watches the news.
Cal Tech? It's in Pasadena and has no real influence on the L.A. citizenry at all. That's like me saying that Pepperdine University in Malibu make L.A. a great city. Really, if all the great universities in the world were clustered in L.A. that alone would not make it a great city.
I may be a "Yankee," but half of my family is from the south. There is plenty of unique culture there that you can't find in Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, New York or Boston. And c'mon, everyone knows Florida is not the south.
