"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?" The traffic can be maddening, but at least we can find plenty of places to park, lol. The streets of Manhattan are the craziest I have ever seen for parking.
I do envy NYC for its theater scene, and in the final say Broadway is the best there is. However, having lived in Toronto, almost like a sister city in so many ways to NYC, I hate the incredible heat waves in summer and freezing cold in winter. In L.A., I can lay by the swimming pool on New Year's Day. It doesn't get better than that.
And L.A. may not have many large theaters, but I have heard that with our smaller theaters we have more acting venues in this area than NYC does, including its off-Broadway theaters.
The major difference is that L.A. is a movie town, and that is where people in the arts have to make a living (probably impossible to do with theater here), while in NYC people can make a living in the theater but problably not the few movies shot there. Each coast has something. You have muggings, we have freeway shootings.
One thing we do share in common is that we both have subways. : (
Updated On: 9/2/06 at 12:44 PM