"We lived for a while in San Francisco, but it was too chic and leisurely. New York is only a place to go if you're into finances. But we wanted a place of cultural substance. And if you look behind the stereotype of glitz and glamour, that is Los Angeles.
Los Angeles is raw, uncouth and bizarre, but it's a place of substance. It has more new horizons than any other place."
-- Werner Herzog - German film director
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Comments (7)
Sure. If that substance is plastic. ;)
LA is the most vapid place in Amerca. I had to live there for a year and it was the most culturally unsatisfying year of my life! Thank God I was able to move back to San Francisco. . . "Too chic and leisurely?" This dude is a moron.
Wow I didn't realize I was ON the LA's website, I thought I was in SF's. It doesn't change my opinion of LA, but I didn't mean to talk smack o your own turf, sorry.
Where did you live in LA? I thought the same thing when I lived in Brentwood, but now that I'm in Silverlake and working downtown, I see that Herzog is right. There is a rich and thriving cultural scene here in LA, but it takes time and effort to find it.
You can't compare Los Angeles to other traditional big cities. If you do, you'll be disappointed. If you take the time though, you'll find there are so many amazing things to discover, be part of and help create in this city. Also, there is no place else that has such an amazing variety of food from all over the world.
Los Angeles is a city ripe for living!
My girlfriend had a great way of looking of describing Los Angeles as a non-native resident: "Los Angeles seems to reflect whatever substance, or there lackof, of the person living there."
ChloeSF: I've lived in SF and I think its a beautiful city (possibly the most beautiful metropolitan space in all of the States) with many offerings I often miss (Golden Gate Park! Citizen Cake! Alamo Square!). But I have to say, Bay Area people can be unbelievably hateful about Los Angeles without ever really giving it a chance. LA takes effort, unlike the (very) small and compact SF landscape. Where in the city did you live? Which parts of Los Angeles did you enjoy? Did you have friends to show you around?
Sandra Bernhard's response to "You live in the Valley? Borring!" "No honey, maybe you're boring! Use your imagination much?"
so i think maybe this applies to the so-called vapidity of LA.