Is LA really that bad?

[DJ Mbenga]

its pretty bad at SC. The campus is nice, been to both SC and UCLA its about a wash inside both beautiful but once outside it becomes kate upton vs rossie odonell.
la has the same problems as many cities, but their history has always suffered from a lack of pride or protection in popular culture, so it can get distorted. its not the noir you see from boyz in the hood or training day. some of it may be fact or just myth. its size is what hurts it with the gangs and crime . NY has way more police around and its half the size, its easy to protect out there.
you can probably find anything you'd want in la, but if you are living at sc mr balkman damn i dont know what to tell you, find some s to bang otherwise its gonna be boring. one thing la has lacked is some bbq.
have heard bludso's has some nice texas bbq but its in crenshaw.

[The Gemini Method]

Yea USC is in a hole. One part I never liked going through as a kid. I heard south central ain't as bad anymore tho, this true?

I grew up in Anaheim about 30 min away from downtown

Still isn't the safest of areas but if you're not flamed out or rockin' the blue, you won't get shot on most occasions. It isn't the late 80's and 90's in SC, but it still isn't Laguna Nigel or the Palisades for the most part. However, violence is random in L.A. and as someone mentioned--there is fewer police policing L.A. that there are other choices in L.A. than South Central. Funny though, how the hipster encroachment and the gangs in the East L.A. are of Silverlake and Echo Park have had some runins in the past few years.

USC wasn't all that bad for me at least, but then again I didn't take walks in the middle of the night in the surrounding neighborhoods and I also commuted mostly between Long Beach and Exposition Park. The times I did spend near the campus were the student housing on campus or on/near the row. Those times were with ex gfs so chillin' was the name of the game, or, if we needed to go we would hit up the 3rd Street Promenade or head towards my neck of the woods.

[TheMACHINE]

I work I anaheim. Hence why I'm an Angels fan!

[baseline bum]

This is probably the best time of year to hit the beaches in the LA area. In the early summer it's often really foggy at the beaches, but with the Santa Anna winds just starting to kick up it makes awesome weather for swimming, body-surfing, surfing, boogie-boarding, etc. I bet you can get IM to give you a ride to Huntington since it's 16 year-old latina paradise.

[The Gemini Method]

IM into the youngin' Latinas? There are a plethora of those...he's in heaven...

[IronMexican]

IM into the youngin' Latinas? There are a plethora of those...he's in heaven...

yeah, brah.

[InRareForm]

latinas for days here!

[DJ Mbenga]

IM into the youngin' Latinas? There are a plethora of those...he's in heaven...

csun has a ton of those too, csulb has way more white girls, good quality, but they are only looking for their own kind.

[AussieFanKurt]

Here's another example of what I'm talking about where I see it in media etc. from a book I'm reading:

'It was difficult to maintain a spiritual allegiance to a city swimming in drugs and pornography, shattered by gang violence, steeped in hollywood style cynicism and controlled by politicians as venal and demogogic as they were incompetent.'

And it continues.

[baseline bum]

What's wrong with drugs and pornography?

[Latarian Milton]

Here's another example of what I'm talking about where I see it in media etc. from a book I'm reading:

'It was difficult to maintain a spiritual allegiance to a city swimming in drugs and pornography, shattered by gang violence, steeped in hollywood style cynicism and controlled by politicians as venal and demogogic as they were incompetent.'

And it continues.

the LA city might be a of place now with immigrants & gangs but the people from there, i mean the native LA citizens are just as fine as everyone from other major cities tbh

[IronMexican]

What's wrong with drugs and pornography?

I'm offended.

[symple19]

Parts of LA are nice, but it's the mul udes of vacuous, vain people that sour the area for me. It's a plastic wonderland. All flash and no substance

Yeah, I'm generalizing, there are definitely cool/interesting people, just not that many of them.

I'm obviously partial to the Northern part of the state

[The Gemini Method]

csun has a ton of those too, csulb has way more white girls, good quality, but they are only looking for their own kind.

I grew up in the LBC...I know what CSULB has to offer. There is a ton of white chicks that go there but to be honest, there is a ton of mixture there so you can find a number of cute Latinas and Asians as well as some Black chicks. I used to attend conferences there for work and it's still a playground if you got the game.

[baseline bum]

Seriously, LA has a lot of great to do within easy day trip distance. I agree with symple that lots of the people are assholes, but if you like being outdoors it's an awesome place.

[tlongII]

I would much rather live in the Pacific Northwest tbh.

[HI-FI]

Parts of LA are nice, but it's the mul udes of vacuous, vain people that sour the area for me. It's a plastic wonderland. All flash and no substance

Yeah, I'm generalizing, there are definitely cool/interesting people, just not that many of them.

I'm obviously partial to the Northern part of the state

qft son. i was born north of San Fran, visited family there when i was younger so i'm very partial to that area and the Niners (that beatdown on the Packers was something else. I love what i saw from all facets of the team). i've always wanted to move out there and try to live in the Bay Area, but all my friends are in Texas. I guess I'd need a reason or great job to do it.

i can't comment on LA since i've never been, but i've never had any desire tbh. i guess it would be cool to check out the ladies, just to see how hot the hos are there. maybe check out a few landmarks where some of my favorite movies were shot. perhaps try to take a piss on Staples Center. based on what i've gathered from trusted sources, LA seems like the epicenter of moral vacuity and baggery in this country.