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Los Angeles is the weirdest city in the U.S.
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Date: June 18th, 2012 10:57 PM Author: olive irradiated home chad I can't believe this place is real.
Like NYC if you threw it at the Earth and it splattered everywhere. Second biggest city in the country but it doesn't feel like a real city. Beautiful people, beautiful weather, but feels like the whole thing is some kind of simulation of a city. |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 10:59 PM Author: khaki crackhouse selfie it is fucking weird. sort of feels like a huge mediterranean resort town with a large migrant worker section. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20912860) |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:01 PM Author: Comical brethren that is just west LA and parts of downtown
most elitist faggots who live in west LA dont even have any idea about the valleys and all that shit out towards anaheim and stuff..
its actually a pretty big shithole.. just endless freeways, strip malls, traffic |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:12 PM Author: wonderful sound barrier temple this. 90% of the population in LA (okay maybe not 90 but whatever) is just a bunch of folk living 45 minutes to an hour away from downtown in what is essentially just miles of strip malls, culdesacs, uninspiring chain-link fence parks, ugly schools, drainage canals, and grocery stores built in the 1980s... interspersed by random small hills every couple of miles or so. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20912976) |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:19 PM Author: violent cruise ship "its actually a pretty big shithole.. just endless freeways, strip malls, traffic"
Yeah, it's a monstrosity, but there's something almost creepily fascinating about this aspect of L.A. too. |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:22 PM Author: wonderful sound barrier temple *some guy who watched Crash last weekend* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913048) |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:23 PM Author: violent cruise ship nah dude I have family out in the south bay and I've explored the city many times (not much of it, I'll admit, but enough to get a sense of the basic pattern of development) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913056) |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:24 PM Author: Spectacular fuchsia office The strip malls are actually pretty cool. Not as bland and predictable as are country strip malls. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913058) |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:38 PM Author: khaki crackhouse selfie describe NOW (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913157) |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:40 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy Wine Corner Fortuitous Meteor asians (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913172) |
Date: June 18th, 2012 11:01 PM Author: silver sneaky criminal it's a hell of a city. it's like someone stepped on New York and scraped it off on the beach. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20912880) |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:09 PM Author: Spectacular fuchsia office Or ate New York and puked it all over a sandbox. Chunks of urbanity. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20912949) |
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Date: June 19th, 2012 2:24 PM Author: Charismatic aquamarine antidepressant drug (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20915287) |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:04 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy Wine Corner Fortuitous Meteor it sprawls fucking forever. it's hard to get a sense of its scope unless you do something like drive I-10 across the city toward palm springs or phoenix. it's basically 70 straight miles of low-density, low-rent dormitory housing for mexicans, punctuated here and there by warehouses; chain restaurants. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20912903) |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:15 PM Author: wonderful sound barrier temple its actually relatively easy if you fly in from the east and you have a window seat. youll literally start seeing LA fold out beneath you like 30 minutes before you land. its insane. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20912987) |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:24 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy Wine Corner Fortuitous Meteor yeah, but driving through that mess gives you a ground-level view of things. walking would probably be even more revelatory... but you might die or something along the way.
the frightening thing about flying into LA is that there's a band of time from between the moment you see the eastern edge of the sprawl, and the time you can catch sight of the ocean, and in that span, it seems like the city is just never going to come to an end. in its own way, it is very frightening. |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:32 PM Author: wonderful sound barrier temple frightening? youre flying over suburbs...
ARE generation.
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:39 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy Wine Corner Fortuitous Meteor it's a vision of humanity in which our geography has been entombed beneath a relentless grid of crappy little houses hugging their crappy little arterial streets, fractured here and there by freeways that vanish into a deep middle distance of auburn haze that kind of looks like puke. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913168) |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:43 PM Author: wonderful sound barrier temple while we are on the subject of puke, ill just add that each of your posts has given me more and more of an urge to vomit.
it reads like the diary of a 13 year old girl. or as if i was forced to watch the fucking bag scene from american beauty, except this time it was even worse because it was written by you. |
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Date: June 19th, 2012 2:01 PM Author: dull address useless brakes "[O]ur geography has been entombed beneath a relentless grid of ... little houses hugging ... little[,] arterial ... streets, fractured here and there by freeways that vanish into a deep ... distance of auburn haze ...."
A bit strained ("deep middle distance" is nonsensical), but actually not bad at all--the idea of a geography being "entombed" is nice. Reads like William Gibson. +1. Continue writing. |
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Date: June 19th, 2012 12:06 AM Author: tantric dilemma Yeah, but if you fly in from the north (SF), along the coastline, you would think LA is paradise on earth. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913405) |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:19 PM Author: Excitant Salmon Doctorate Idiot Los Angeles is denser than NY (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913021) |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:21 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy Wine Corner Fortuitous Meteor the NYC metro area as a whole includes huge chunks of exurban connecticut, almost all of long island, the bulk of new jersey, and even a chunk of eastern PA as i recall. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913037) |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:12 PM Author: violent cruise ship It's because it was never really meant to be the big, rich city it became. The film industry was really an east coast development initially, but the producers moved to the west coast to get away from paying Edison royalties for some film related technology he developed. The result was the L.A. we know today. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20912973) |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:17 PM Author: Deranged stage that, and well, WWII+aerospace boom.
also the 1906 quake in SF moving port activity south to LA.
oh, and the dust bowl moving okies west to fill the san gabriel valley |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:19 PM Author: silver sneaky criminal and oil http://thesurftrend.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/oil_derricks_early_huntington_beach.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Los-angeles-oil-rigs.jpg |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:20 PM Author: Deranged stage in other words, he's an MFE. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913025) |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:16 PM Author: Buck-toothed harsh locale potus Guy comes to xoxo to poast about "Los Angeles." Ends up poasting about Inland Empire and The Valley. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913004) |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:19 PM Author: burgundy flickering mad cow disease census designated metropolitan area bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913020) |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:25 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy Wine Corner Fortuitous Meteor you can't disentangle them, bro. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913075) |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:35 PM Author: Buck-toothed harsh locale potus Not relevant, bro. Aside from MFH, which major cities can you disentangle from their suburbs? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913143) |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:38 PM Author: wonderful sound barrier temple san fran. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913160) |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:46 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy Wine Corner Fortuitous Meteor why would we want to? when people use the term "los angeles," it's usually metonymic with the los angeles area. they usually don't mean "the precise city limits of the city of los angeles." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913239) |
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Date: June 19th, 2012 12:01 AM Author: dark self-absorbed lettuce (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913372) |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:41 PM Author: burgundy flickering mad cow disease cr, in america it is common to refer to the census metro area in this way (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913180) |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:42 PM Author: black seedy giraffe prole he even talks about north OC as if it is los angeles. just lol. no one talks about the valley or fkn riverside as LA.
when people speak about LA being nice they mean west LA. |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:18 PM Author: Excitant Salmon Doctorate Idiot I thought that was Austin's schtick (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913015) |
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Date: June 19th, 2012 2:02 PM Author: Deep Candlestick Maker Institution (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20915174) |
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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:37 PM Author: onyx talented base the city consists of a buncha 15 year old hispanics hooking up on the blue line. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913151) |
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Date: June 19th, 2012 2:04 PM Author: multi-colored cordovan bawdyhouse Just imagine how lovely the area would have been 100 years ago breh. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20915189) |
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Date: June 19th, 2012 2:13 PM Author: indecent locus pervert It's still really nice. The poasters itt hating on it either spend way too much time in the shit sections of LA and out in the burbs, or they have no idea what the fuck they're talking about. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20915232) |
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Date: June 19th, 2012 2:07 PM Author: Passionate hospital Everyone talks about the freeways but the street traffic especially around rush hour is indescribably overwhelming and horrendous. Imagine you have a million dollar home on sunset but you can't leave it on weekdays because there is a 10 mile long line of cars outside your driveway from 2pm to 7pm. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20915210) |
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Date: June 19th, 2012 2:37 PM Author: indecent locus pervert Traffic on Olympic between 3 and 9pm is sickening. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20915344) |
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Date: June 19th, 2012 2:38 PM Author: Charismatic aquamarine antidepressant drug The dream of the 60s is alive in LA, bro. No mass transit, endless low density housing as far as the eye can see. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20915348) |
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Date: June 19th, 2012 2:56 PM Author: Vigorous chestnut faggot firefighter love of her life LOL ANGELES:
http://lolablueblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/pe_system_map.jpg
you guys had all that, then you tore it up? LOLOL dumbfucks |
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Date: June 19th, 2012 6:32 PM Author: silver sneaky criminal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20916630) |
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Date: June 19th, 2012 6:40 PM Author: Mind-boggling aggressive senate toilet seat great find. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20916691) |
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Date: June 19th, 2012 6:38 PM Author: razzle-dazzle at-the-ready church building new version Los Angeles is INARGUABLY the single worst city in the entire country with the exception of 99% of all other cities in the country (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20916675) |
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Date: June 19th, 2012 6:40 PM Author: dark self-absorbed lettuce (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20916690) |
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Date: June 19th, 2012 6:39 PM Author: Mind-boggling aggressive senate toilet seat yet somehow it's infinitely more livable than NYC and one of the two or three best places to settle down in the country. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20916688) |
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Date: June 19th, 2012 6:42 PM Author: crawly indigo forum stain bullshit, brother. just lol at this idea (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20916720) |
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Date: June 19th, 2012 6:47 PM Author: Mind-boggling aggressive senate toilet seat no other place has the same major international city amenities combined with beautiful weather and more living space/dollar. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20916777) |
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Date: June 19th, 2012 6:49 PM Author: Fighting den turdskin you could live in any burb of a real city and get the same feeling as living in the "city" of LA (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20916795) |
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Date: June 19th, 2012 6:53 PM Author: Mind-boggling aggressive senate toilet seat how's that? what other "real cities" have 70 degree weather all year long? and of these real cities, where can you get more space for your money? if you have a family, or are over the getting blackout drunk every friday and saturday scene (LA isn't good for this), then it's really hard to beat LA and its many surrounding suburbs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20916837) |
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Date: June 19th, 2012 6:49 PM Author: dark self-absorbed lettuce (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20916792) |
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Date: June 19th, 2012 6:53 PM Author: Vigorous chestnut faggot firefighter love of her life nah. you can actually have a yard and some land in LA. try doing that in manhattan. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20916839) |
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Date: June 19th, 2012 6:54 PM Author: Mind-boggling aggressive senate toilet seat yes for the .0000001% of the population that can afford to pay $5k/month for a decent 2 BR in MFH, that's true. but even then you'd get more and better shit for your money in LA. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20916848) |
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Date: June 19th, 2012 7:08 PM Author: dark self-absorbed lettuce (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20916972) |
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Date: June 19th, 2012 6:46 PM Author: lilac market Cool LA pictures, please. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20916760) |