Who hates LA?

Well, I do get jealous... However, I don't hate it. I love LA as it is! Nice sunny weather, beach, and Disneyland!

---

I live in San Francisco, and find myself going to L.A. quite often. Sure, I would love to see shows on Broadway, but with all the Pre-Broadway shows we've been getting, it's fun to know that we get to see them first. Or, we get great regional casting shows. I can't wait to see Fences at Pasadena Playhouse, for example.

LA is far worse than most places...at least LA has a theater community.

I suspect the only people who will respond with a yes are the group of predictable NY'ers who love to bash the city whenever they get a chance. The East Coast/West Coast rivarly seems a little more one-sided lately.

> I suspect the only people who will respond with a yes are the group of predictable NY'ers ...

and yet, oddly, i count 11 posts w/ nary a bash. i thought it was *chicago* that had the second city syndrome? :P

---

I have liked a lot of things about LA the few times I've visited, but the absolute dealbreaker for me in terms of ever living there is the traffic. How do you LA residents cope with it?

Depends on where you live and where you work out here.

...and there are always 3 or 4 "alternate routes" to anywhere. You just have to live out here long enough to know where they are.

...or ask someone.

Hey, I've lived on both coasts, and there are good and bad things on both sides.

I moved from NY to LA in the late '80s, and basically traded blue skies and brown water for brown skies and blue water.

The quality of life in LA is better than NY, hands down. You get more "bang for your buck" out here, and you have a LOT more "space" to work with. I felt very claustrophobic in NY.

But I miss my friends there... and the (WAY too expensive) restaurants... and the theatah, of course. And the cultchah.

There's plenty of cultchah in LA, too, you just have to know where to look for it. It's hidden.

...which makes it all the more "cool" to find.

---

My toilet bowl water is blue AND I live in the LA area!

---

I live outside of Detroit...there is very little theater here. I am very jelous.

---

I've lived in LA for 20 years. Wow. Time flies. The only reason I work in movies is to make enough money to afford to move to New York and spend the rest of my life working in theater. Now that is so twisted.

To add even more twists, I'm back in Toronto recuperating from a nearly fatal bout of pancreatitus (I have a lovely momento - my gallbladder in a bottle.)

Soon it's back to LA, back to the smog and the driving and the gunfire and the driving and the lonliness and the driving and the lack of public transport which leads to the driving.

One more film and I am outta there, then you New Yorkers will be stuck with me!

---

COOOOLKID

Disneyland is close enough to th LA County line. So no worries if others make corrections to your statement. I've been to Orange County and Los Angeles...they are close enough to be one and the same...and 100+ years ago they were one and the same.

I hate the Dodgers but LA is OK.

---