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Originally Posted by StethJeff
LA has blight pretty evenly spaced throughout it's metro; consequently, you can't really avoid it and we aren't able to hide it from our tourists who all think this place looks pretty shabby.
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You also pretty much sum things up.
I can never forget reading the blog of a women from mumbai india who traveled to CA & said that LA wasn't very appealing, or something like that. She did like the SF area, but thought LA lacked a certain niceness.
What got me to
was when she became so insulted after I mentioned----& I truly wasn't trying to be insulting----how the opinion she had of LA was even more telling since it came from a person who lives in a country infamous for
poverty & squalor.
I know more recently there was a survey of americans opinions of US cities & many of them placed only detroit & oakland lower than LA. I think it's baloney for the city to be rated so negatively, but for whatever reason that reaction is out there.
btw, I think LA today----inc dt----is in some ways better than it has ever been. Of course some wags (or trolls) may say that's cuz it never was all that nice to begin with.
But as others point out in the posts above, the shape of things here or anywhere else often are....or always have been....a mixed bag.