Posted on 03/28/2023 7:13:37 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Imagine living in paradise… you are never more than thirty minutes from the most famous beaches in the world. A bracing hike high above the mountain snow line is never more than an hour away. The sun is almost always shining in a bright sapphire-sky and the temperature is never more than five degrees away from seventy-five. Everywhere you look free range celebrities roam and the world’s greatest chefs inevitably make their way to your town to prove that they are among the world’s best. Every weekend you can choose between a live game featuring one of the city’s half dozen professional sports teams, a strip of music venues which have birthed most of the greatest rock acts that ever were, or dozens of comedy clubs from which the funniest men and women in the world have been discovered.
What on earth could make you leave a place like that?
Such is the great mystery of Los Angeles here in the early 2020’s… because people are leaving. A lot of them. In droves.
In my very first Substack essay, published here a little over a year ago, I argued that Decline is a Choice. That many of the public and private sector Oligarchs running Big Blue cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, along with the braindead government fucntionaries who do their bidding and the Press who covers for them, assume that the days of TAXI DRIVER and DEATH WISH have been forever buried in our past, never to return. But they haven’t yet learned that history isn’t always an arc… sometimes it’s a circle. And the policy choices being made in America’s bluest cities are indeed bringing the DEATH WISH era back, like a zombie from a very different kind of movie.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecontinentalcongress.substack.com ...
Los Angeles, Chicago, New York... the future is very troubling.
Snake Pliskin???
I heard he was dead
“you are never more than thirty minutes from the most famous beaches in the world.”
Bali, the Australian Gold Coast, Waikiki, Miami South Beach, Malaga, Barcelona are the places I think of beaches
When I think of LA I think of crime, smog, freeways, and freaks. Beaches didn’t make the list
Imagine living in paradise… you are never more than thirty minutes from the most famous beaches in the world. A bracing hike high above the mountain snow line is never more than an hour away. The sun is almost always shining in a bright sapphire-sky and the temperature is never more than five degrees away from seventy-five. Everywhere you look free range celebrities roam and the world’s greatest chefs inevitably make their way to your town to prove that they are among the world’s best. Every weekend you can choose between a live game featuring one of the city’s half dozen professional sports teams, a strip of music venues which have birthed most of the greatest rock acts that ever were, or dozens of comedy clubs from which the funniest men and women in the world have been discovered.
What on earth could make you leave a place like that?
“never more than thirty minutes from the most famous beaches in the world”
Yeah, famous because of the exposure of hollywood......I’ll take Florida’s beaches any day......I’ve never had to worry about stepping on a used hypodermic needle.
Some tropical “paradises” are the most dangerous places in the world. Los Angeles wasn’t much before the Hoover Dam was built and since then, Los Angeles has just caught up to the rest of such “paradises”.
We have had an invasion of woke zombies.
This too will pass...but it could be many decades before the ooze and slime dissipates.
There are many beaches in the Los Angeles and adjacent Orance County area. Los Angeles is right on the Pacific Ocean.
Democrat run urban America is unlivable. No decent rational person would voluntarily live there, send their children to urban public schools, raise a family, start a business or even socialize in such places. The fact is most of the inhabitants are not Americans. The majority of Americans that remain in such places are neo pagan hedonists, schizoid perverts of all sorts and liberal elites who live in guarded compounds.
Escape from L.A. return to reality and normal people.
In my very first Substack essay, published here a little over a year ago, I argued that Decline is a Choice.
Sometimes, pretty just ain’t enough. 😁👍
I live in the great lakes rust/snow belt. Our “progressive,” blue city is considered “poor,” and unlike the new-age tranny wokester ideologues of California, our leftists are more old-style machine democrats, just looking for their government job and their skim.
But we have no “homelessness.” We certainly have addicts, mentally ill, and one can see a few pan-handlers around - but they don’t live on the streets - simply because the weather forbids it most of the time
It proves to me that homelessness is a CHOICE, on both the part of government, and the person themselves.
There’s a reason why it was Anglo-Saxons who built this world and dominated it for centuries. It’s because they didn’t live in paradise and had no illusions about the world in which they lived. They lived in harsh climates and living conditions, and had to figure out how to tame them in order to survive and flourish.
“Paradise” just makes people lazy and stupid.
I've never been to Bali, but some of those beaches you mention are far overrated. While the beaches in the Australian Gold Coast look nice, they are full of dangerous animals, like box jellies, nettles, crocodiles and sharks. Some poor fellow was just eaten by a shark near Malabra beach. I was never comfortable there. In Hawaii the beaches are too rocky. South Beach, or any of the Florida Beaches, including Cocoa Beach, are great. Don't overlook Virginia Beach either. Whenever I am there, I always think that this is a world class beach.
I know, right? What low standards some people have, even those posting here in a conservative forum. They use every liberal yardstick to judge their existence.
OK,
Ypao Beach Guam. Try that one. Very underrated and a lot less crowded than the others
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjoV56M6cBQ
Tank beach on Saipan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRFxSN1EDog
"...next thing you know, Jed's a millionaire
...kinfolk say, Jed, move away from here
...California, that's where you want to be
...so they loaded up that hunk of sh*t they call a truck
...and moved to Beverly
...Hills that is
...swimming pools, movie stars...
...d kes, f ggots, pimps, hookers, mass murderers, drug addicts...."
>>“Paradise” just makes people lazy and stupid.<<
Arguable. From my POV, giving up the ideas of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” has given us a majority population of joyless f*cks struggling to survive on the fruits of someone else’s labor and sacrifice. The game is, who can I screw out of what I want before they screw me first? Don’t you dare “offend” me with your objections to being screwed, either. Just shut the hell up and play the game.
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