I genuinely cannot fathom why anyone would move from NY to LA, LA is the most hellish city I’ve ever had the misfortune of being in except for maybe Orlando.
“Let’s have all the shitty parts of a city, like traffic, high prices, bad smells, and homelessness so bad that incomprehensible levels of human suffering are visible on every sidewalk, but without the benefit of actually having cool things near each other and easily accessible. I love sitting in 3 hours of traffic just to drive a few miles away in the same city!”
New York sucks in many ways but at least it had the subway and is dense enough to walk places. LA is an irredeemable hellscape that should be razed to the ground.
“ The fucking place should be wiped off the face of the Earth. To be anything to do with rock and roll and to go and live in Los Angeles is I think just heading for disaster. It really is. Even Brian Eno, who's so adaptable and quite as versatile as I now am living in strange and foreign environments, he couldn't last there more than six weeks. He had to get out. But he was very clever: he got out much earlier than I did.”
I genuinely cannot fathom why anyone would move from NY to LA, LA is the most hellish city I’ve ever had the misfortune of being in except for maybe Orlando.
“Let’s have all the shitty parts of a city, like traffic, high prices, bad smells, and homelessness so bad that incomprehensible levels of human suffering are visible on every sidewalk, but without the benefit of actually having cool things near each other and easily accessible. I love sitting in 3 hours of traffic just to drive a few miles away in the same city!”
New York sucks in many ways but at least it had the subway and is dense enough to walk places. LA is an irredeemable hellscape that should be razed to the ground.
“ The fucking place should be wiped off the face of the Earth. To be anything to do with rock and roll and to go and live in Los Angeles is I think just heading for disaster. It really is. Even Brian Eno, who's so adaptable and quite as versatile as I now am living in strange and foreign environments, he couldn't last there more than six weeks. He had to get out. But he was very clever: he got out much earlier than I did.”
-David Bowie
Fuck I love Bowie even more now. That first sentence is what I normally say about LA, pretty much word for word.