visiting LA
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LA is a funny city, its the place everyone loves to hate. This little fact is something that sort of endears me to it.
Being a transplant here, I never heard anything positive from all my too cool for school friends who (wrongfully) assumed it was the clichéd city awash with the desperate and balding actors with their Paris Hilton clone girlfriends.
First of all this place is FUCKING HUGE, as in 1 in 8 Americans live in southern California. I don't think anything that large could be said to be any one thing.
It is sprawled, polluted and overpopulated, which are good reasons to hate it. But the reason most people give that they don't like LA: tits, muscles, actors/industry peeps etc are such a tiny segment of the population really it just doesn't apply to a city this large.
If you want to make any real generalizations about LA, you could say it is full of non-english speaking, brown and over-weight people and be perfectly accurate, but for some reason the paltry 2% of what people assume LA to be somehow becomes what defines it.
Just a casual observation, as you were.