Los Angeles is the worst city built in the best location on earth. I hate it with a passion.
I’m not sure which I hate more, LA or Orlando, which is the worst city built in the worst location on earth.
this post was submitted on 26 May 2025
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You know that trope of a little kid that follows a theme park mascot and then sees them take their helmet off to see it’s really some sweaty middle aged dude with a mustache in there? That’s what going to LA is like, all the romantic glitter and glamour of “Hollywood” dissolves and you just see this smoggy, dingy reality underneath it.
I kind of laugh whenever I see tourists, feels like it must be a massive disappointment. Gonna hate the Olympics being here
The first time my step dad saw the Hollywood walk of fame, he assumed he stumbled upon some cheap facsimile of it because the area just looked so tacky.
LA is the worst city I've ever been to, it's just endless miles of paradise paved over. It's a city sacrificed to the automobile.
I tried taking the bus while I was there and it was almost funny how hostile the transit system is. One stop was literally in the middle of a freeway that was only accessable by taking a set of stairs off the overpass. The entire time you're waiting for the bus you're trapped in a concrete cave that amplifies the already loud freeway noise, it's horrible
I've visited once and wasn't there long enough to develop a sincere and true hate, but I was astonished by its geology and climate. While I was there I tried to contemplate what it was like before the settlers came. Just imagine standing at the tops of those hills with the basin stretching out beneath you. That scene is intoxicating to me even now, years later. And I know that same feeling is one of the reasons it's not that way today.
Just a big pile of wasted names from La Ciudad de Nuestra Dama la Reina de Los Angeles to Rancho Cucamonga
I haven't been to LA, but I hate SF for the same reason. Is LA even worse?
LA is carbrain made manifest, it's up there with Houston with how hostile it is to just exist without a vehicle.
But at least Houston it almost makes sense because it’s built on the surface of the sun, so I understand the desire to exist entirely within climate controlled pods.
Los Angeles has the best weather on the planet and should be a walkable paradise
But at least Houston it almost makes sense because it’s built on the surface of the sun, so I understand the desire to exist entirely within climate controlled pods.
You can put AC in Transit but also Houston was around before the car anyway
Certainly, just want to really extra condemn LA for having paradise and ruining it
"The O.Sea"
Mmmm whatcha saaaay
Alright folks, allow me to quarter back this. We do communism. Then we cut off pieces of Florida and use it to build up Cuba in one of the largest terraforming projects ever known to humanity. We literally erase Florida from the map and build strong foundations for Cuban society.
no that long ago i checked the most aggressive simulation (the one you posted just on a different website) and discovered that my shitty little property will be within walking distance of a future beach
so uhhh small victories i guess?
Most of England disappears while Wales and Scotland get off lightly, lets gooooo
Haha get fucked Netherlands
"Sir, Davy Jones is here. He says he needs to start measuring the Oval Office for curtains"
We all know that a giant seawall will be erected at some point. And of course it will be at the expense of the poor to protect the wealthy. Maybe they can turn the poorer neighborhoods into beachfront property.
there is not going to be any of that in the US. US climate policy is literally to ignore it
At what point is it just gonna be cheaper to take all the fucking buildings and push them somewhere else
it'd be way cheaper to build coastal works compared to the capital in a city that big;
but that'd be a public investment so obv its never happening
Strait outa Compton - lol
For a sense of scale It'll take about 500 years for this to happen at current estimates, 260' ft of sea level vs the 10'+ we can expect to put Miami underwater in the next few decades
The SFV, aka The Valley, stays winning lol
Valley Girl Sirens
waow
To quote the poet, "Bye you lizard scum!"
Though of course the whole planet will be lizard weather at that point, so hmm... 
PLEASE, PLEASE THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN IMMEDIATELY