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Originally Posted by pesto
California the least popular state? That's just the haters, who are trying to figure out why they can't find a job out here. Happens internationally too where people hate America until there visas come through. I would take this with pretty much a whole salt mine of salt.
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that's a good analogy. more importantly, there are some
cities----I won't say which ones----on that list that more ppl rate positively than LA.
otoh, detroit & oakland do have a
reputation that crosses all sorts of boundaries & are known for being exactly that way by most ppl. So for any city to get stuck on the bottom with those two should make the ppl in that city go 'oh oh'.
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Originally Posted by OneMetropolis
I don't know what it is, but why is LA so infamous, and why are Americans such snobs?
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I think LA is much better today than it was when it supposedly wasn't so
in certain ppl's eyes. But as I mentioned in an earlier post, when some friends were in LA not long ago for a funeral, & I was taking them around the city, I could tell they had a kind of
reaction. I've noticed that in other ppl going back a long time.
So the recent survey by itself doesn't mean much. but when it seems to reflect responses that aren't much better in ppl that I know personally, & the POVs & reactions of other ppl I've been reading about for yrs & yrs, I can't take everything with a grain of salt.
maybe one reason for ppl's
reaction towards the city is cuz through the yrs, too many ppl in LA have been the type of cretins who'd take a perfectly fine bldg, like the one at the corner of 6th & broadway &----in a misguided attempt to modernize it or improve its looks----put it though all these changes over the past 60 yrs.....
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^ this bldg has been shown in recent posts in the 'noirish los angeles' thread at the 'found city photos' page. But there's some hope, cuz this pic of the bldg taken very recently shows the hideous, grimy red awning has been removed....
ersatz01
but look at the amt of bad remodeling that has occurred between the time the bldg was first completed to today, & how it has been permanently damaged....
LAPL/GoogleSV----gaylordwilshire
^ the owner who did that to the bldg probably was the type who thought parking lots all over dtla were a sign of the city's mobility & convenience, & power lines hanging above streets were a sign of modern american technology?!
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