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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...
,.,...,..,.,.,:,;,....,.,:,:,.,.,:,.,.:,:.,:.::,.  06/18/12
it is fucking weird. sort of feels like a huge mediterranean...
.,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,,..,.  06/18/12
that is just west LA and parts of downtown most elitist f...
AZNgirl singing Ice Ice baby near AZNman  06/18/12
this. 90% of the population in LA (okay maybe not 90 but wha...
abcxyzabc  06/18/12
"its actually a pretty big shithole.. just endless free...
Honorable White Man Nuking Hiroshima  06/18/12
*some guy who watched Crash last weekend*
abcxyzabc  06/18/12
nah dude I have family out in the south bay and I've explore...
Honorable White Man Nuking Hiroshima  06/18/12
The strip malls are actually pretty cool. Not as bland and p...
Tim Daotua  06/18/12
describe NOW
.,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,,..,.  06/18/12
asians
Hemidemisemipumo  06/18/12
it's a hell of a city. it's like someone stepped on New York...
.......,.,,....,.,.,.,,.,.,",.,.,.,."  06/18/12
Or ate New York and puked it all over a sandbox. Chunks of u...
Tim Daotua  06/18/12
...
rot13dood  06/19/12
it sprawls fucking forever. it's hard to get a sense of its...
Hemidemisemipumo  06/18/12
its actually relatively easy if you fly in from the east and...
abcxyzabc  06/18/12
yeah, but driving through that mess gives you a ground-level...
Hemidemisemipumo  06/18/12
frightening? youre flying over suburbs... ARE generation....
abcxyzabc  06/18/12
it's a vision of humanity in which our geography has been en...
Hemidemisemipumo  06/18/12
while we are on the subject of puke, ill just add that each ...
abcxyzabc  06/18/12
"[O]ur geography has been entombed beneath a relentless...
NeumannMorgenste  06/19/12
Yeah, but if you fly in from the north (SF), along the coast...
.,.,...,;..,.,.,:,,:,.;..,:::,....,:,.,.:.:.,:::,.  06/19/12
Los Angeles is denser than NY
Dick Cake  06/18/12
the NYC metro area as a whole includes huge chunks of exurba...
Hemidemisemipumo  06/18/12
It's because it was never really meant to be the big, rich c...
Honorable White Man Nuking Hiroshima  06/18/12
that, and well, WWII+aerospace boom. also the 1906 quake ...
Random Access Mammaries  06/18/12
and oil http://thesurftrend.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/oil...
.......,.,,....,.,.,.,,.,.,",.,.,.,."  06/18/12
in other words, he's an MFE.
Random Access Mammaries  06/18/12
Guy comes to xoxo to poast about "Los Angeles." En...
.,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,.;.,:;:,...,:,.,.:..:.,:.::,.  06/18/12
census designated metropolitan area bro
LarryJoeBird  06/18/12
you can't disentangle them, bro.
Hemidemisemipumo  06/18/12
Not relevant, bro. Aside from MFH, which major cities can yo...
.,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,.;.,:;:,...,:,.,.:..:.,:.::,.  06/18/12
san fran.
abcxyzabc  06/18/12
why would we want to? when people use the term "los an...
Hemidemisemipumo  06/18/12
I think you can disentangle both MFH and Brooklyn from the s...
Subtle Hipster Troll  06/19/12
cr, in america it is common to refer to the census metro are...
LarryJoeBird  06/18/12
he even talks about north OC as if it is los angeles. just l...
,,,...,,......,,....  06/18/12
I thought that was Austin's schtick
Dick Cake  06/18/12
...
cactp  06/19/12
the city consists of a buncha 15 year old hispanics hooking ...
".,.,.,.,.,.......",,,,,,,,,,  06/18/12
Just imagine how lovely the area would have been 100 years a...
and when i started to squeeze the bar brother  06/19/12
It's still really nice. The poasters itt hating on it either...
.,.,...,..,.,..:,,:,..,,:::,,..,:,.;.:..:.,:,::,.  06/19/12
Everyone talks about the freeways but the street traffic esp...
Gregor  06/19/12
Traffic on Olympic between 3 and 9pm is sickening.
.,.,...,..,.,..:,,:,..,,:::,,..,:,.;.:..:.,:,::,.  06/19/12
The dream of the 60s is alive in LA, bro. No mass transit, e...
rot13dood  06/19/12
LOL ANGELES: http://lolablueblog.files.wordpress.com/2012...
..,,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,,.,.,.  06/19/12
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.......,.,,....,.,.,.,,.,.,",.,.,.,."  06/19/12
great find.
..,..,....,..,,,........,.,..,,...,.....,  06/19/12
Los Angeles is INARGUABLY the single worst city in the entir...
AZN bitch praying to Jesus for a nosebone  06/19/12
Compare to MFH.
Subtle Hipster Troll  06/19/12
yet somehow it's infinitely more livable than NYC and one of...
..,..,....,..,,,........,.,..,,...,.....,  06/19/12
bullshit, brother. just lol at this idea
rhodium1234  06/19/12
no other place has the same major international city ameniti...
..,..,....,..,,,........,.,..,,...,.....,  06/19/12
you could live in any burb of a real city and get the same f...
..,.,;..;...;:..;.,...;..,..:.,....  06/19/12
how's that? what other "real cities" have 70 degre...
..,..,....,..,,,........,.,..,,...,.....,  06/19/12
This might apply to NYC as a whole, but not to MFH if you ca...
Subtle Hipster Troll  06/19/12
nah. you can actually have a yard and some land in LA. try...
..,,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,,.,.,.  06/19/12
yes for the .0000001% of the population that can afford to p...
..,..,....,..,,,........,.,..,,...,.....,  06/19/12
You can get a decent 2 BR in MFH for 3-4K brother. As long ...
Subtle Hipster Troll  06/19/12
Cool LA pictures, please.
bigtree  06/19/12


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Date: June 18th, 2012 10:57 PM
Author: ,.,...,..,.,.,:,;,....,.,:,:,.,.,:,.,.:,:.,:.::,.

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: .,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,,..,.

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: AZNgirl singing Ice Ice baby near AZNman

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: abcxyzabc

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: Honorable White Man Nuking Hiroshima

"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: abcxyzabc

*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: Honorable White Man Nuking Hiroshima

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: Tim Daotua

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: .,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,,..,.

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: Hemidemisemipumo

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: .......,.,,....,.,.,.,,.,.,",.,.,.,."

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: Tim Daotua

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: rot13dood



(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: Hemidemisemipumo

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: abcxyzabc

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: Hemidemisemipumo

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: abcxyzabc

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: Hemidemisemipumo

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: abcxyzabc

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: NeumannMorgenste

"[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: .,.,...,;..,.,.,:,,:,.;..,:::,....,:,.,.:.:.,:::,.

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: Dick Cake

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: Hemidemisemipumo

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: Honorable White Man Nuking Hiroshima

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: Random Access Mammaries

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: .......,.,,....,.,.,.,,.,.,",.,.,.,."

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: Random Access Mammaries

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: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,.;.,:;:,...,:,.,.:..:.,:.::,.

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: LarryJoeBird

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: Hemidemisemipumo

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: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,.;.,:;:,...,:,.,.:..:.,:.::,.

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: abcxyzabc

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: Hemidemisemipumo

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: Subtle Hipster Troll

I think you can disentangle both MFH and Brooklyn from the suburbs, but definitely not Queens.

(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: LarryJoeBird

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: ,,,...,,......,,....

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: Dick Cake

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: cactp



(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: ".,.,.,.,.,.......",,,,,,,,,,

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: and when i started to squeeze the bar brother (service guarantees citizenship)

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: .,.,...,..,.,..:,,:,..,,:::,,..,:,.;.:..:.,:,::,.

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: Gregor

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: .,.,...,..,.,..:,,:,..,,:::,,..,:,.;.:..:.,:,::,.

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: rot13dood

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: ..,,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,,.,.,.

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: .......,.,,....,.,.,.,,.,.,",.,.,.,."



(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: ..,..,....,..,,,........,.,..,,...,.....,

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: AZN bitch praying to Jesus for a nosebone

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: Subtle Hipster Troll

Compare to MFH.

(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: ..,..,....,..,,,........,.,..,,...,.....,

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: rhodium1234

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: ..,..,....,..,,,........,.,..,,...,.....,

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: ..,.,;..;...;:..;.,...;..,..:.,....

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: ..,..,....,..,,,........,.,..,,...,.....,

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: Subtle Hipster Troll

This might apply to NYC as a whole, but not to MFH if you can afford the rent.

(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: ..,,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,,.,.,.

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: ..,..,....,..,,,........,.,..,,...,.....,

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: Subtle Hipster Troll

You can get a decent 2 BR in MFH for 3-4K brother. As long as you dont find it necessary to have a doorman or live in Tribeca.

(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: bigtree

Cool LA pictures, please.

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