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Originally Posted by Just-In-Cali
^...well...then lets just stop. Stop all of it. No more time or effort need be put into Downtown Los Angeles. Lets focus on making the Valley more suburban chique! Eh?
My, I would expect that statement from others (im looking at you ed, downtowner, and others) but im surprised it came from you RAlossi.
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Yeah, because that's exactly what I said in my comment above.
Anyway, I hope this actually spurs some discussion about the future of Downtown. It may one day be a collection of cool -- though disparate -- neighborhoods, but probably won't become that vital central city we've been yearning for. Not when its very geographic heart is a rotten blight.
It feels so weird saying that considering what I've done in the past, but that's what living at 6th and Los Angeles has opened my eyes to. The 1st of every month, the welfare checks come in, the dealers follow, the drugs get smoked, and the crazies flood the Historic Core, screaming in the middle of the night.
I now realize that that culture -- the drugs, the prostitution, the insane -- will NEVER be going away, not while government agencies and "nonprofits" get so much benefit from maintaining the status quo (read: funding).
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