Jonah of LABlogs.com asks a few questions of LA bloggers.
1. How long have you lived in Los Angeles?
32 out of 37 years. 4 years in New York, 1 year in San Francisco.
2. Were you born here?
Yes, born and raised in the South Bay.
3. How long did you plan on staying here originally?
After I got married, we had planned to live in San Francisco forever.
4. How long do you plan on staying here now?
Probably forever. Possibly we could move after the girls finish school and college (16+ years…)
5. What keeps you here?
Works, schools, the weather, the tolerance of diversity.
6. What makes you want to leave?
The smog and the traffic.
7. What is your biggest suprise about living here?
That so many people hate LA in the rest of the country, especially New Yorkers.
8. What is your biggest disappointment about living here?
We don’t get to see fall colors and we don’t get to see winter become spring with the appearance of green. Back east, these times of the year are glorious.
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I think most east coasters (New Yorkers included) are oblivious to LA. There’s little hatred. Apathy is a better word.
San Fran is another story…
I know what you mean. I went to school in NYC after being raised in LA, and the first two years I simply spent defending myself. After a bit more travel I learned that the “beat LA” meme was merely the mantra of the most tiresome types who aren’t leading much of a life themselves.
I like LA and have lived here most of my 47 years, but it doesn’t have to be the best city in the world anymore for me to like it, nor does it have to be the most attacked city in the world for me to feel good about it. Sooner or later we all become citizens not of a city, but of the world; it just takes some longer than others to ditch their parochial hubris.
Did the Prius get a flat?
The LA bashing drives me crazy.
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People who would be more than insulted if you spoke disparagingly about their town, feel it’s perfectly OK to bash our home, make fun of this place and call it LaLa Land.
Have you ever noticed that people who do the weirdest things here are usually recent transplants?
Only we real Angelinos have the right to make fun and complain.
Everyone else is just being rude!