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"Craziest disaster in the cities history. None of the fires are contained even 1% yet. Its getting a lot worse tonight. Had to evacuate my home which is likely burned down now. In total shock honestly."
"SF to LA on Frontier. This flight is like an hour long... Eventually, I don't know how, they get her to chill out, and then the pilot says 'Well welcome to LA everyone' and everyone on the plane claps and cheers (I'm 100% serious)."
"And how is 99% of Reddit software engineers making over $500k in Los Angeles?"
"Israeli guy bought the house next to mine and immediately gutted it, replacing all the old windows with vinyl trash, and all the solid wood five panel doors inside with hollow core trash. They all went straight into a dumpster. This is pretty common in LA."
"All my old punk friends are dying or desperate, except the handful who live in LA and NYC and make lists of their taste for Criterion and Spotify."
"Mainly though, it's very funny to me that he went to school in the US and has a bunch of cliche LA fuck boy tattoos lol"
"So is shooting an Uzi in your backyard in Kentucky, and so is grabbing a smoothie and hitting the skate park in L.A."
"it only got worse when it was turned into a ~respectable~ money-making operation by the high fade combover + snapback hat guys in LA. Now every dispensary looks like a goddamn Chipotle lmao."
"This is the most transparent thing possible, literally doing evil shit inside a house of worship to make your critics look bad. And every single time they do it, politicians fall for it hook line and sinker."
"It's worse than Philly or LA, at least in my opinion."
"I went to college in LA and it was a little better but overall still way sleepier than the second biggest city in the country should b."
"This wasn't a thing in the 90s or 2000s unless you were in Miami or LA. Sure, walking around topless in the Bahamas, Cancun or DR, maybe some Euro countries, whatever."
"I distinctly remember visiting LA in 2018 and being like 'wow this is bad, nyc isn't like this' and after the pandemic, it's become like 2018 LA. Granted the west is even worse now, but nyc never was saturated with that crazy bath salt energy."
"The next stage of these neighborhoods seemed to be a lot more LA-inspired though - ivy wall with a pink neon sign that says 'don't kill my vibe' in cursive, minimal and austere white spaces, food centered around restraint and purity (salad) rather than indulgence and 'realness' (burger)."
"The GOP will play never-ending clips of the streets of the homeless in San Francisco, Oakland and Downtown LA, and trans weddings in Berkley and Coachella."
"counterpoint to the LA post"
"A few hours earlier, on a flight from Los Angeles to Minneapolis, I'd sat beside an earnest, alcoholic welder from Green Bay."
"I have a few friends in LA and Toronto. Some of them are routinely commuting 1-2 hours a day for work almost everyday. There's even a guy who commutes almost 3 hours to work everyday in the Toronto area."
"I understand how it evolved like this, but this wont be good for civilization long term to treat people with cautious resentment. But you know, I'm probably just not reading the room well. And maybe this has nothing to do with gender and more so the rotten vibe of LA behavior"
"Unless you're employed by a Hollywood studio or one of the sports teams, I don't get it. You have everything on your doorstep that LA has, plus a better public transport system, a downtown that is an actual downtown and not a semi-deserted crack den, and arguably better food."
"She was some playwright from the 60s. She would have loved RSP 💕"
"🎶 Souls of Mischief - 93 'Til Infinity 📹 Velour Bathrobe"
"You're guaranteed the same 'consumer experience' at a Starbucks in Manhattan as a Starbucks in LA."
"Out walking at night, my neighborhood is sort of sketch (LA). Jaywalk and this girl says 'why are you so brave' and I say 'I'm from New York' and she says 'I'm from Chicago' and I said 'then you should know' and keep walking."
"I came here from the east coast for a wedding and I'm always astonished what a shithole LA is. There's trash EVERYWHERE, homeless people everywhere, people blowing weed smoke in the face of my nephew, places legitimately look like Brazilian favelas, they spend apparently 100K per homeless person, th"
"I now live in Los Angeles. In LA when fat ugly retards date hot babes you pretty much know it's because they're rich, but in a small town in America shits way different."
"feels like the last few years have seen a rapid increase in violence and general aggression from the homeless, esp in big liberal cities. my theory is that they can't get dollars from begging anymore bc so few people in nyc/sf/la use cash"
"Complete with all the neolib behavior that entails. I'm talking insistence on asking everyone their pronouns before engaging in conversation, scolding people if they're caught with single-use plastic items, and tons of looking down on poor people."
"My dad loves to talk about visiting LA in the 80's and how culturally stubborn Latino immigrants were compared to groups like the Irish who started acting American after 6 months in the country. He was convinced Mexicans in the US would just refuse to learn English and would end up taking over entir"
"I live in LA and just going around town, you can just feel the mental health crisis radiating from people. I've been having tons of crazy interactions with people. People on the road in their cars have a crazed look in their eyes."
"New York, LA, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC, Boston, Miami, and Minneapolis All the other "big cities" are either shells of their former selves and can no longer support urban life or are post-war suburban sprawl sunbelt cities."
"I left LA earlier this year to go back to SF and I almost missed it, then went back for my birthday and stopped at my old Costco and it fully made me realize why I left. it is not a "nice city to live in, bad city to visit" its just a bad broken and sad city."
"Stable software developer job, living with his gf for a couple years now. Goes between NorCal, Arizona, and the LA area because his gf is a nurse."
"i cant keep pretending someone's music/art is good just to have friends"
"My husband took me to a fancy steakhouse in LA for our anniversary."
"Last night I went to a neighborhood in Los Angeles that's famous for having a massive Halloween block party. It's in the thick of affluent, white, liberal Hollywood. There were tons of little kids dressed like cops. Adults in "insensitive" Dahmer costumes. The zombie Queen Elizabeth that we were tol"
"I know this is a horrible way to approach the world but it's hard not to especially when you work a public facing job in the city of LA."
"When this show came out, practically everyone working in an office in LA and NYC co-splayed as MM characters. Men were cutting their hair short and used pomade, women wore vintage dresses, and you were truly 'profresh' if you had a mid century modern couch in your living room."
"Over at my buddy's place last night watching the NBA Finals and he mentioned he was just out in LA to attend the funeral of the father of a woman he dated in high school. The guy was a super loaded CEO of some cybersecurity company that blew up, owned properties all over the world, had at least 30 c"
"(The chef apparently jacks off while killing cats.)"
"SURREAL Moment as Coyote drinks WATER from Skylight Window on TOP of Los Angeles HAIR Salon"
"Just recently visited some friends in L.A. (I am from the UK) and was shocked at how taboo drinking alcohol is. These people will literally go to AA if they have more than 4 drinks a night."
"I'm living really far away right now (I'm in Alaska and she lives in LA) so it's really hard for me to do anything directly."
"You got the: third worldists who think the USSR is still a thing, wiggers in beemers, the islamists potheads, bugman asian strivers, the trump loving royalists, those kinda jews (derogatory), the "I will exterminate all muslims immediately" zorastorian larpers, the LA "persian culture is my life (pe"
"in 2021 I decided to buy a stick shift Kia, which in Los Angeles is kinda crazy. no one I know at any age bracket is willingly moving towards driving stick, especially in this day and age of electric slop screen-on-wheel blobmobiles with no soul."
"I always hear people yapping about how annoying vegans are yet I've never actually heard a militant vegan in my real life (and I live in LA)"
"Does anyone know how to process this grief and shock. Had to evacuate last night and I couldn't even sleep, I just stared at my cieling trying to process this and I could not."
"When I was pulling back up from my lunch break yesterday, she pulled up at the same time, and we got to talking some. She mentioned that she had a photography studio in L.A. for decades. She said she was a photographer for 30 years but sold all her equipment around 15 years ago."
"Around half of them are about hating women from Los Angeles. He literally has one song called "Nothing But Trouble (Instagram Models)" and it's just about how instagram models make problems. He has another song called "L.A. Girls" about how women in LA are fungible."
"Los Angeles burning. AI slowly taking over and replacing artistry, all the biggest box office hits last year were franchise sequelslop, even the good movies/oscarbait were mid (Conclave, Anora). David Lynch, patron saint of mainstream cinema's dark dreamworld, has passed away."
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