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Originally Posted by dktshb
LA is a great place to live but not so great place to be a tourist. If you do your homework a tourist trip to LA can be amazing but it is a better trip very well planned first.
Although crime is not as bad as many major cities in the US the blight, poverty and "third world" characteristics of big parts of the city are like nowhere else in the US. I can see how a tourist caught up in this can be blown away and shocked by this.
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I took my kids to LA this year to play "tourist". We moved from OC when they were babies (to Denver) so they'd never really done the LA tourist thing. We had a wonderful time! Stayed in Beverly Grove, walked to the Farmer's Market, explored Hollywood, went to Universal, Malibu, hung out on the Santa Monica Pier, rented bikes and went down to Venice Beach, went to Chinatown, downtown, the Getty.... but then I know where I'm going and what to expect.