Good luck finishing that one!
Posted on 11/28/2012 9:46:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Edited on 11/28/2012 9:48:53 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
I recently moved from London to Los Angeles. Despite the fact that LA is the undisputed worst place in the entire world, I've been trying super hard to like it. Mainly because I like being that guy who likes the thing everyone else hates just to annoy people (which reminds me, people I know in real life: I never really liked Skrillex or Twilight. You should've seen your faces though).
(Excerpt) Read more at vice.com ...
“...but how can you compare these
to the freeways
of Los Angelees
where it only takes about 3 hours to get home and even a little bit longer if you have an accident.”
Great place. Took the house burrito left overs home and had them for two more meals. It’s been awhile. On Evergreen if I recall. Also know as Manuals. Great stuff.
Maybe way upstream at its source, but downstream is a far beyond a toxic nightmare. I honestly don’t know how anything living survives, after coming into contact with that flowing horror show.
Good luck finishing that one!
On the other hand, London probably has the edge over LA when it comes to samosas.
Yeah, London has wonderful, authentic Indian food.
I live just behind the Orange Curtain--in East LH.
Yeah, total cesspool.
It is said that the world's best Indian restaurants are not in India but in London.
The best Indian meal I ever had (it was my first!) was in London in the late 1970s. I used to have an apartment on Curry Hill in Manhattan - that area has great food, too.
Frankly, I didn’t like that unnecessary dirty language she used throughout her article. She does need some maturing.
Her filthy language does make me question her judgment on anything and everything.
Thank you for your reply.
I lived in downtown SF for a year in 2007-2008. I would assess it as follows:
1) The homeless are everywhere - even downtown - and have a significant negative impact on the city's quality of life. They are the single worst problem in SF by far. City government deliberately encourages homelessness in an attempt to shake down businesses for more contributions and tax dollars.
2) Weird gay behavior is much more visible on TV than on the streets. Gays/lesbians and their behavior really had no impact on downtown's quality of life one way or the other.
3) Obnoxious liberals know they don't have much of an audience in the Financial District - they confine much of that to City Hall, with an occasional protest on Market Street.
4) Despite the large Asian population, most Asian restaurants in the downtown area cater to tourists and prepare "American Chinese" food - and not very well.
5) The rank-and-file SFPD is still pretty effective at breaking up disruptions to traffic and commerce, downtown at least.
5) San Francisco looks good from a distance and smells bad up close. A potent cocktail of urine and fishy seawater. Like my former CEO used to say, "It's the most beautiful city in the world - from ten feet above the ground on up." (He lived in SoCal...)
6) It is a cold, damp, and foggy city much of the time. The climate has more in common with Seattle than Los Angeles, which I think surprises a lot of those young hipsters who move there after college. It ain't Baywatch, that's for sure..
7) Food, groceries, gasoline, and everything else are considerably more expensive than in the surrounding suburbs.
8) Aside from being able to walk to work and to AT&T Park for Giants games, I didn't get much benefit out of actually living in San Francisco. My peers all took BART home to the East Bay after work, and the nightlife in my immediate neighborhood was no great. Despite the commute, my previous life in the suburbs was better.
To sum up - San Francisco still a pretty good place to visit, especially if you have never been. Parts of the city are visually astounding. But it's certainly not worth paying the extra price to live there. In fact, I've yet to visit a US urban area that is worth the price premium.
I lived off Pico and Fairfax in the late 90’s. Worked at the Mint. Met lots of celebs. Interesting place, great architecture but only lived there for a year. In Entourage, the gang is sometimes at Urth Coffee in West Hollywood. Used to go there all the time when I lived on Huntley.
>>6) It is a cold, damp, and foggy city much of the time. The climate has more in common with Seattle than Los Angeles, which I think surprises a lot of those young hipsters who move there after college. It ain’t Baywatch, that’s for sure.
Yeah, I would stay in Russian Hill or Fisherman’s Wharf when I would vacation in SF and I LOVED the weather. There is nothing like going out to the elephant seals on the wharf and turning around and watching the fog engulf Nob Hill. The only problem is knowing that there 10 panhandlers that will approach you on the way home.
Kinda makes you wish there was a time machine ray gun that you could shoot the city with to make it all look like the SF of “Bullit” again.
Jamie Lee Curtis is Tony Curtis’ daughter. The author of this article is a gay guy.
Well, Jamie Lee Curtis is the daughter of Tony Curtis, and is a talented American actress. This article was not written by Jamie Lee Curtis, however, but Jamie Lee Curtis Taete, who seems to be an entirely unrelated, and much younger, person.
“On the other hand, the author of this tripe doesn’t like L.A. improv comedy. Where does she think all the great American comics come from??”
That’s all well and good, but people don’t pay to see high school band practice just because the kids might end up to be rock stars someday.
I also doubt that Jamie Lee Curtis would talk about crying when she saw a character that she played disappointed onscreen. Most actors don’t even watch their own movies.
Jamie Lee Curtis, the actress, is married to Christopher Guest, not Nigel Tufnel. Guest is American.
I lived in and near LA for about a decade. Don’t miss much of the place, except the food. Particularly Tommy’s and In-And-Out (although In-And-Out has now followed me to Texas).
Went there last Spring for vacation - still a great place to visit, still beautiful (entire area, that is), but no - I never want to work there again. I wouldn’t mind retiring there, but the state is so broke that I just trust things to be safe, in any way.
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