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Los Angeles is the weirdest city in the U.S.

I can't believe this place is real. Like NYC if you threw...
Bespoke Potus
  06/18/12
it is fucking weird. sort of feels like a huge mediterranean...
Cerebral sex offender pisswyrm
  06/18/12
that is just west LA and parts of downtown most elitist f...
infuriating geriatric cruise ship
  06/18/12
this. 90% of the population in LA (okay maybe not 90 but wha...
Bipolar Therapy
  06/18/12
"its actually a pretty big shithole.. just endless free...
Cracking fuchsia associate
  06/18/12
*some guy who watched Crash last weekend*
Bipolar Therapy
  06/18/12
nah dude I have family out in the south bay and I've explore...
Cracking fuchsia associate
  06/18/12
The strip malls are actually pretty cool. Not as bland and p...
multi-colored twinkling plaza
  06/18/12
describe NOW
Cerebral sex offender pisswyrm
  06/18/12
asians
Bateful stock car
  06/18/12
it's a hell of a city. it's like someone stepped on New York...
Aromatic bossy gas station internal respiration
  06/18/12
Or ate New York and puked it all over a sandbox. Chunks of u...
multi-colored twinkling plaza
  06/18/12
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burgundy rehab private investor
  06/19/12
it sprawls fucking forever. it's hard to get a sense of its...
Bateful stock car
  06/18/12
its actually relatively easy if you fly in from the east and...
Bipolar Therapy
  06/18/12
yeah, but driving through that mess gives you a ground-level...
Bateful stock car
  06/18/12
frightening? youre flying over suburbs... ARE generation....
Bipolar Therapy
  06/18/12
it's a vision of humanity in which our geography has been en...
Bateful stock car
  06/18/12
while we are on the subject of puke, ill just add that each ...
Bipolar Therapy
  06/18/12
"[O]ur geography has been entombed beneath a relentless...
Cruel-hearted Splenetic Hell
  06/19/12
Yeah, but if you fly in from the north (SF), along the coast...
Disturbing amethyst immigrant
  06/19/12
Los Angeles is denser than NY
motley magical jew
  06/18/12
the NYC metro area as a whole includes huge chunks of exurba...
Bateful stock car
  06/18/12
It's because it was never really meant to be the big, rich c...
Cracking fuchsia associate
  06/18/12
that, and well, WWII+aerospace boom. also the 1906 quake ...
mewling son of senegal
  06/18/12
and oil http://thesurftrend.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/oil...
Aromatic bossy gas station internal respiration
  06/18/12
in other words, he's an MFE.
mewling son of senegal
  06/18/12
Guy comes to xoxo to poast about "Los Angeles." En...
Dull Hyperactive Set
  06/18/12
census designated metropolitan area bro
Bonkers puce stag film
  06/18/12
you can't disentangle them, bro.
Bateful stock car
  06/18/12
Not relevant, bro. Aside from MFH, which major cities can yo...
Dull Hyperactive Set
  06/18/12
san fran.
Bipolar Therapy
  06/18/12
why would we want to? when people use the term "los an...
Bateful stock car
  06/18/12
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blue cuckold dragon
  06/19/12
cr, in america it is common to refer to the census metro are...
Bonkers puce stag film
  06/18/12
he even talks about north OC as if it is los angeles. just l...
Brindle property
  06/18/12
I thought that was Austin's schtick
motley magical jew
  06/18/12
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Aquamarine tantric deer antler church
  06/19/12
the city consists of a buncha 15 year old hispanics hooking ...
Mint Nofapping Jewess
  06/18/12
Just imagine how lovely the area would have been 100 years a...
Razzle-dazzle ceo
  06/19/12
It's still really nice. The poasters itt hating on it either...
Chartreuse piazza hunting ground
  06/19/12
Everyone talks about the freeways but the street traffic esp...
Alcoholic Vibrant Scourge Upon The Earth
  06/19/12
Traffic on Olympic between 3 and 9pm is sickening.
Chartreuse piazza hunting ground
  06/19/12
The dream of the 60s is alive in LA, bro. No mass transit, e...
burgundy rehab private investor
  06/19/12
LOL ANGELES: http://lolablueblog.files.wordpress.com/2012...
titillating new version
  06/19/12
...
Aromatic bossy gas station internal respiration
  06/19/12
great find.
magenta soul-stirring den
  06/19/12
Los Angeles is INARGUABLY the single worst city in the entir...
Rusted Nursing Home
  06/19/12
...
blue cuckold dragon
  06/19/12
yet somehow it's infinitely more livable than NYC and one of...
magenta soul-stirring den
  06/19/12
bullshit, brother. just lol at this idea
Contagious dysfunction
  06/19/12
no other place has the same major international city ameniti...
magenta soul-stirring den
  06/19/12
you could live in any burb of a real city and get the same f...
dead laser beams
  06/19/12
how's that? what other "real cities" have 70 degre...
magenta soul-stirring den
  06/19/12
...
blue cuckold dragon
  06/19/12
nah. you can actually have a yard and some land in LA. try...
titillating new version
  06/19/12
yes for the .0000001% of the population that can afford to p...
magenta soul-stirring den
  06/19/12
...
blue cuckold dragon
  06/19/12
Cool LA pictures, please.
Orange appetizing parlour
  06/19/12


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Date: June 18th, 2012 10:57 PM
Author: Bespoke Potus

I can't believe this place is real.

Like NYC if you threw it at the Earth and it splattered everywhere. Second biggest city in the country but it doesn't feel like a real city. Beautiful people, beautiful weather, but feels like the whole thing is some kind of simulation of a city.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20912851)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 10:59 PM
Author: Cerebral sex offender pisswyrm

it is fucking weird. sort of feels like a huge mediterranean resort town with a large migrant worker section.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20912860)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:01 PM
Author: infuriating geriatric cruise ship

that is just west LA and parts of downtown

most elitist faggots who live in west LA dont even have any idea about the valleys and all that shit out towards anaheim and stuff..

its actually a pretty big shithole.. just endless freeways, strip malls, traffic

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20912884)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:12 PM
Author: Bipolar Therapy

this. 90% of the population in LA (okay maybe not 90 but whatever) is just a bunch of folk living 45 minutes to an hour away from downtown in what is essentially just miles of strip malls, culdesacs, uninspiring chain-link fence parks, ugly schools, drainage canals, and grocery stores built in the 1980s... interspersed by random small hills every couple of miles or so.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20912976)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:19 PM
Author: Cracking fuchsia associate

"its actually a pretty big shithole.. just endless freeways, strip malls, traffic"

Yeah, it's a monstrosity, but there's something almost creepily fascinating about this aspect of L.A. too.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913023)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:22 PM
Author: Bipolar Therapy

*some guy who watched Crash last weekend*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913048)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:23 PM
Author: Cracking fuchsia associate

nah dude I have family out in the south bay and I've explored the city many times (not much of it, I'll admit, but enough to get a sense of the basic pattern of development)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913056)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:24 PM
Author: multi-colored twinkling plaza

The strip malls are actually pretty cool. Not as bland and predictable as are country strip malls.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913058)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:38 PM
Author: Cerebral sex offender pisswyrm

describe NOW

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913157)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:40 PM
Author: Bateful stock car

asians

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913172)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:01 PM
Author: Aromatic bossy gas station internal respiration

it's a hell of a city. it's like someone stepped on New York and scraped it off on the beach.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20912880)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:09 PM
Author: multi-colored twinkling plaza

Or ate New York and puked it all over a sandbox. Chunks of urbanity.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20912949)



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Date: June 19th, 2012 2:24 PM
Author: burgundy rehab private investor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20915287)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:04 PM
Author: Bateful stock car

it sprawls fucking forever. it's hard to get a sense of its scope unless you do something like drive I-10 across the city toward palm springs or phoenix. it's basically 70 straight miles of low-density, low-rent dormitory housing for mexicans, punctuated here and there by warehouses; chain restaurants.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20912903)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:15 PM
Author: Bipolar Therapy

its actually relatively easy if you fly in from the east and you have a window seat. youll literally start seeing LA fold out beneath you like 30 minutes before you land. its insane.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20912987)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:24 PM
Author: Bateful stock car

yeah, but driving through that mess gives you a ground-level view of things. walking would probably be even more revelatory... but you might die or something along the way.

the frightening thing about flying into LA is that there's a band of time from between the moment you see the eastern edge of the sprawl, and the time you can catch sight of the ocean, and in that span, it seems like the city is just never going to come to an end. in its own way, it is very frightening.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913062)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:32 PM
Author: Bipolar Therapy

frightening? youre flying over suburbs...

ARE generation.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913110)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:39 PM
Author: Bateful stock car

it's a vision of humanity in which our geography has been entombed beneath a relentless grid of crappy little houses hugging their crappy little arterial streets, fractured here and there by freeways that vanish into a deep middle distance of auburn haze that kind of looks like puke.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913168)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:43 PM
Author: Bipolar Therapy

while we are on the subject of puke, ill just add that each of your posts has given me more and more of an urge to vomit.

it reads like the diary of a 13 year old girl. or as if i was forced to watch the fucking bag scene from american beauty, except this time it was even worse because it was written by you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913212)



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Date: June 19th, 2012 2:01 PM
Author: Cruel-hearted Splenetic Hell

"[O]ur geography has been entombed beneath a relentless grid of ... little houses hugging ... little[,] arterial ... streets, fractured here and there by freeways that vanish into a deep ... distance of auburn haze ...."

A bit strained ("deep middle distance" is nonsensical), but actually not bad at all--the idea of a geography being "entombed" is nice. Reads like William Gibson. +1. Continue writing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20915169)



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Date: June 19th, 2012 12:06 AM
Author: Disturbing amethyst immigrant

Yeah, but if you fly in from the north (SF), along the coastline, you would think LA is paradise on earth.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913405)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:19 PM
Author: motley magical jew

Los Angeles is denser than NY

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913021)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:21 PM
Author: Bateful stock car

the NYC metro area as a whole includes huge chunks of exurban connecticut, almost all of long island, the bulk of new jersey, and even a chunk of eastern PA as i recall.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913037)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:12 PM
Author: Cracking fuchsia associate

It's because it was never really meant to be the big, rich city it became. The film industry was really an east coast development initially, but the producers moved to the west coast to get away from paying Edison royalties for some film related technology he developed. The result was the L.A. we know today.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20912973)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:17 PM
Author: mewling son of senegal

that, and well, WWII+aerospace boom.

also the 1906 quake in SF moving port activity south to LA.

oh, and the dust bowl moving okies west to fill the san gabriel valley

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913006)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:19 PM
Author: Aromatic bossy gas station internal respiration

and oil

http://thesurftrend.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/oil_derricks_early_huntington_beach.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Los-angeles-oil-rigs.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913019)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:20 PM
Author: mewling son of senegal

in other words, he's an MFE.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913025)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:16 PM
Author: Dull Hyperactive Set

Guy comes to xoxo to poast about "Los Angeles." Ends up poasting about Inland Empire and The Valley.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913004)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:19 PM
Author: Bonkers puce stag film

census designated metropolitan area bro

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913020)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:25 PM
Author: Bateful stock car

you can't disentangle them, bro.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913075)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:35 PM
Author: Dull Hyperactive Set

Not relevant, bro. Aside from MFH, which major cities can you disentangle from their suburbs?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913143)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:38 PM
Author: Bipolar Therapy

san fran.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913160)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:46 PM
Author: Bateful stock car

why would we want to? when people use the term "los angeles," it's usually metonymic with the los angeles area. they usually don't mean "the precise city limits of the city of los angeles."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913239)



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Date: June 19th, 2012 12:01 AM
Author: blue cuckold dragon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913372)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:41 PM
Author: Bonkers puce stag film

cr, in america it is common to refer to the census metro area in this way

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913180)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:42 PM
Author: Brindle property

he even talks about north OC as if it is los angeles. just lol. no one talks about the valley or fkn riverside as LA.

when people speak about LA being nice they mean west LA.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913196)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:18 PM
Author: motley magical jew

I thought that was Austin's schtick

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913015)



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Date: June 19th, 2012 2:02 PM
Author: Aquamarine tantric deer antler church



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20915174)



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Date: June 18th, 2012 11:37 PM
Author: Mint Nofapping Jewess

the city consists of a buncha 15 year old hispanics hooking up on the blue line.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20913151)



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Date: June 19th, 2012 2:04 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle ceo

Just imagine how lovely the area would have been 100 years ago breh.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20915189)



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Date: June 19th, 2012 2:13 PM
Author: Chartreuse piazza hunting ground

It's still really nice. The poasters itt hating on it either spend way too much time in the shit sections of LA and out in the burbs, or they have no idea what the fuck they're talking about.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20915232)



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Date: June 19th, 2012 2:07 PM
Author: Alcoholic Vibrant Scourge Upon The Earth

Everyone talks about the freeways but the street traffic especially around rush hour is indescribably overwhelming and horrendous. Imagine you have a million dollar home on sunset but you can't leave it on weekdays because there is a 10 mile long line of cars outside your driveway from 2pm to 7pm.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20915210)



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Date: June 19th, 2012 2:37 PM
Author: Chartreuse piazza hunting ground

Traffic on Olympic between 3 and 9pm is sickening.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20915344)



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Date: June 19th, 2012 2:38 PM
Author: burgundy rehab private investor

The dream of the 60s is alive in LA, bro. No mass transit, endless low density housing as far as the eye can see.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20915348)



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Date: June 19th, 2012 2:56 PM
Author: titillating new version

LOL ANGELES:

http://lolablueblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/pe_system_map.jpg

you guys had all that, then you tore it up? LOLOL dumbfucks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20915417)



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Date: June 19th, 2012 6:32 PM
Author: Aromatic bossy gas station internal respiration



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20916630)



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Date: June 19th, 2012 6:40 PM
Author: magenta soul-stirring den

great find.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20916691)



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Date: June 19th, 2012 6:38 PM
Author: Rusted Nursing Home

Los Angeles is INARGUABLY the single worst city in the entire country with the exception of 99% of all other cities in the country

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20916675)



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Date: June 19th, 2012 6:40 PM
Author: blue cuckold dragon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20916690)



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Date: June 19th, 2012 6:39 PM
Author: magenta soul-stirring den

yet somehow it's infinitely more livable than NYC and one of the two or three best places to settle down in the country.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20916688)



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Date: June 19th, 2012 6:42 PM
Author: Contagious dysfunction

bullshit, brother. just lol at this idea

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20916720)



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Date: June 19th, 2012 6:47 PM
Author: magenta soul-stirring den

no other place has the same major international city amenities combined with beautiful weather and more living space/dollar.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20916777)



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Date: June 19th, 2012 6:49 PM
Author: dead laser beams

you could live in any burb of a real city and get the same feeling as living in the "city" of LA

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20916795)



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Date: June 19th, 2012 6:53 PM
Author: magenta soul-stirring den

how's that? what other "real cities" have 70 degree weather all year long? and of these real cities, where can you get more space for your money? if you have a family, or are over the getting blackout drunk every friday and saturday scene (LA isn't good for this), then it's really hard to beat LA and its many surrounding suburbs.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20916837)



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Date: June 19th, 2012 6:49 PM
Author: blue cuckold dragon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20916792)



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Date: June 19th, 2012 6:53 PM
Author: titillating new version

nah. you can actually have a yard and some land in LA. try doing that in manhattan.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20916839)



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Date: June 19th, 2012 6:54 PM
Author: magenta soul-stirring den

yes for the .0000001% of the population that can afford to pay $5k/month for a decent 2 BR in MFH, that's true. but even then you'd get more and better shit for your money in LA.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20916848)



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Date: June 19th, 2012 7:08 PM
Author: blue cuckold dragon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20916972)



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Date: June 19th, 2012 6:46 PM
Author: Orange appetizing parlour

Cool LA pictures, please.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1973800&forum_id=2#20916760)