Who hates LA?

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 9/1/06 at 6:16pm

I don't live in LA but I certainly hate it.

[COOOOLkid]

Posted: 9/1/06 at 6:21pm

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

[Popular]

Posted: 9/1/06 at 6:30pm

Whenever I feel like I'm missing out on some broadway related event I remind myself of (insert your own state/city that is far worse off here) .
Updated On: 9/1/06 at 06:30 PM

[Anna_Elizabeth]

Posted: 9/1/06 at 6:44pm

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.

[BrunetteBombshell]

Posted: 9/1/06 at 6:44pm

Is anyone in the same boat?

I am. I live a couple of hours from NYC but I've still never been and I've never gotten the chance to see a Broadway show.

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 9/1/06 at 7:15pm

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

[Fosse76]

Posted: 9/1/06 at 7:20pm

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

Disneyland is not in LA.

Posted: 9/1/06 at 7:34pm

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.

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/1/06 at 7:36pm

...and a little more than old.

[whatever2]

Posted: 9/1/06 at 7:54pm

> 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

Posted: 9/1/06 at 8:01pm

I'm a born and raised So Cal (Orange County to be exact) girl, who is now in New England. I have to say that I love some things about LA (weather, the food, and the beaches), but I absolutely hate the traffic. The East Coast is nice too because I get to be closer to Broadway...plus I love my Lobster rolls and clam chowda! But I'm not too fond of the thunderstorms and cold winters. LOL! :)

I guess you can say I'm "bi-coastal"...I love both places!

~Roz

[Jilani]

Posted: 9/1/06 at 8:02pm

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?

Posted: 9/1/06 at 8:07pm

"How do you LA residents cope with it?"

Carpooling and an abundant of your favorite music in the car to keep you sane. :) I remember it taking me half an hour to drive 6 miles to work on the 10 East freeway to Santa Monica in the mornings. Ugh.

~Roz

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/1/06 at 8:09pm

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.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 9/1/06 at 8:33pm

Where in L.A. is there blue water? I'm staying on the beach as we speak, and the ocean sure ain't blue. It ain't even green! :)

[mateo]

Posted: 9/1/06 at 8:36pm

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

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/1/06 at 8:41pm

MB, you're at the wrong beaches.

Seriously... MOVE.


EDIT: And if you think I'm going to post here where the best beaches are, you're crazy.

I have no intention of willfully adding even one more body to the sands.

Updated On: 9/1/06 at 08:41 PM

[Holly Therese]

Posted: 9/1/06 at 8:45pm

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

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 9/1/06 at 10:39pm

I hate Southern California in general. San Diego excepted.

Not because I'm a Northern Californian. I just don't like So Cal.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 9/1/06 at 11:08pm

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]

Posted: 9/2/06 at 12:18am

Disneyland is not in LA.

Oh well. Orange County is close enough!

[Lady Italy]

Posted: 9/2/06 at 1:04am

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.

[mateo]

Posted: 9/2/06 at 1:22am

People call most if not all Socal, LA.

[jimnysf]

Posted: 9/2/06 at 1:30am

I hate the Dodgers but LA is OK.

[mateo]

Posted: 9/2/06 at 1:32am

Since the Dodgers have been winning LA is accepting them again.

But the Angels- are my boo's.