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I've only been to NYC of the three. Someone feel free to lobby for the other two.
Chicago downtown and along the lake is incredible. They have workers planting flowers at 3/4 am inside the loop and always working to keep it beautiful. Like NYC, you don’t need a car. The trains, busses and subway can get you wherever in almost no time. People are friendly, and there are infinite great food options due to the ethnic diversity as you would expect. But it gets cold as shit sometimes. Since it’s April, it’s probably not that bad and may only snow another couple times. May-October is great.
Los Angeles is like 300 cities all touching the next one. It creates the future. Stars live there. It’s dry as fuck l, but you can often tan outside in January and February. The Pacific is right there. Food is also incredible. There’s always a mountain range on the horizon. When it’s not smoggy and you can see clear across the L.A. Basin or San Fernando Valley, views are in credible. But they probably produce snuff porn there. And there are mudslides, earthquakes, droughts, wildfires and manner of foreign to me disasters. It’s mostly sunny, and while there are snobby people who think their shit don’t stink, most people are pretty friendly and tend to be educated on social and political issues.
There were lots of shenanigans going on last night. At one point it was tied about an hour after Teddy said he would give it another hour and I just decided to not vote anymore and so took my vote off of LA. Folks may have even voted after that and further sealed the deal. So sorry. I love you and NOLA but I went back to not being able to vote for any city with an Inforooer I love living in it. That is how I started. Not voting for cities with favs living there. Then it went to not voting for cities I have special memories in. Then a combo. So I couldn't vote any of them as the worst anymore.
We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
LA is easily the worst of the three. LA proper is just a big, dirty city with not a lot of character. It's the cities surrounding LA that are nice.
This is a terrible take. Los Angeles has a ton of character. There's a multitude of neighborhoods in "proper" LA with different cultures and backgrounds. Mexican, Korean, Thai, Ethiopian, Iranian and so on and so on.
Yeah, but there's the Kardashians too. And other plastic motherfuckers.
I'm looking at it right now. I'm at an outdoor event and it's 55 and rainy. Vegas can get fucked.
Honestly, it was a work event.
I got in after midnight on Sunday after traveling for like twelve hours. Room service was closed so I just went to bed hungry.
Monday I was at a conference and then the outdoor event until like 9. Walked down to the Strip to have In-N-Out. It was fine but I would never go out of my way to eat it again. Took a video of the fountain at the Bellagio set to the tune of God Bless The USA for the kids. But I'm 48 so I only turned on the video setting on my phone and forgot to actually record it. Noticed when I went to turn it off. Headed in the wrong direction going back to the hotel and ended up back at the Bellagio in time to record the fountain for real this time. Bonus: it was set to Lady Gaga this time. Win!
Tuesday I was in my conference from 8 AM to 11 PM because these fuckers are sadists. Never left the hotel. The food was good, though.
Wednesday I took the monorail back to the Strip to buy souvenirs for my family and my staff. Got lost in multiple casino-related malls with clouds painted on the ceilings while a coworker attempted to by official casino branded souvenirs for his wife. Headed back to the hotel and caught a little of the Bills - Chiefs Week 5 game from last year at the bar but they inexplicably changed it to the same basketball game that was playing on the TVs on either side of it so I just went to the airport. There I learned that you cannot check your bags more than four hours before your flight so I got to sit around for an hour waiting to check my bag. Flight home left at 11:30 PM and, after a three hour layover in Charlotte where I had a really good breakfast burrito, I finally got home at 11:30 Thursday.
So, no gambling. No shows. No brothels.
On the plus side, my hotel had a robot. So that was cool. My kids were impressed.
It was a work trip and it was fine. I'd go back but if I never do I won't care at all.
LA is easily the worst of the three. LA proper is just a big, dirty city with not a lot of character. It's the cities surrounding LA that are nice.
This is a terrible take. Los Angeles has a ton of character. There's a multitude of neighborhoods in "proper" LA with different cultures and backgrounds. Mexican, Korean, Thai, Ethiopian, Iranian and so on and so on.
incorrect, Los Angeles is only West Hollywood: Sur, Pump, Tom Tom, and a handful of apartments/houses.
While nobody is voting for Chicago, I will give a quick shout out to the Moxy there. A fun hotel with a decent taco place.
If you're not familiar with Moxy, it's a nice change of pace. You check in at the bar and get their signature cocktail. There was a DJ playing when I checked in. The whole lobby is just built to chill. Large windows that basically make it feel like a patio in nice weather. Comfortable, minimalist rooms. Not too expensive. I can't recommend it enough.
While nobody is voting for Chicago, I will give a quick shout out to the Moxy there. A fun hotel with a decent taco place.
If you're not familiar with Moxy, it's a nice change of pace. You check in at the bar and get their signature cocktail. There was a DJ playing when I checked in. The whole lobby is just built to chill. Large windows that basically make it feel like a patio in nice weather. Comfortable, minimalist rooms. Not too expensive. I can't recommend it enough.
While nobody is voting for Chicago, I will give a quick shout out to the Moxy there. A fun hotel with a decent taco place.
If you're not familiar with Moxy, it's a nice change of pace. You check in at the bar and get their signature cocktail. There was a DJ playing when I checked in. The whole lobby is just built to chill. Large windows that basically make it feel like a patio in nice weather. Comfortable, minimalist rooms. Not too expensive. I can't recommend it enough.
I love Chicago with all my heart, but NYC wins for me because I was very surprised by how nice the people are. Movies and TV makes New Yorkers out to be a bunch of pricks. Everyone in Chicago is actually an asshole. Except for shuck .
I'd be pretty content with any of these cities, though I've never been to LA. It looks gorgeous but admittedly the association I have with it is almost completely Hollywood/rich people shit, which doesn't really do anything for me. And all reports by people I trust seem to suggest that people in that area are generally fake as shit. Do we even have any regulars on the board that live in LA?
I've been to New York City a ton of times, and there's a lot to love about it, but idk that I'd want to live there. Kinda feel like I always have to have my guard up a bit more there in comparison to other cities.
I've only been to Chicago once and definitely didn't get a representative view of the city as a whole (just downtown areas for the most part), but I absolutely loved it. It's a decent size, has the beach right there as well as the river running through, and I just really liked the way the city made me feel while I was in it.
We have A great music scene including multiple summer festivals + tons of street festivals all throughout the city An extremely diverse food scene A beautiful lakefront, riverwalk and gorgeous parks Excellent public transit ( I don't miss having a car living here at all) and our cost of living is significantly less than NYC and LA.
I love Chicago with all my heart, but NYC wins for me because I was very surprised by how nice the people are. Movies and TV makes New Yorkers out to be a bunch of pricks. Everyone in Chicago is actually an asshole. Except for shuck .
“Except for?” More like “especially” please and thank you.
We have A great music scene including multiple summer festivals + tons of street festivals all throughout the city An extremely diverse food scene A beautiful lakefront, riverwalk and gorgeous parks Excellent public transit ( I don't miss having a car living here at all) and our cost of living is significantly less than NYC and LA.
NYC has all of that except for a lakefront, because we have the ocean, instead.
Los Angeles is the longest I’ve lived in any city (just ahead of Rio de Janeiro). I absolutely love it there.
The weather, the beaches, the food, the culture. You can be outdoors, hike and surf year-round.
It’s an awesome place if you love film and live music. It has some of the coolest movie theaters (Village Theatre, Cinerama Dome, Vista, New Bev) and music venues (Hollywood Bowl, Greek Theatre, Troubadour) in the country.
NYC and Chicago are great cities to visit, but neither are places I’d move to. Lived in New Haven and cold winters are just not for me.
We have A great music scene including multiple summer festivals + tons of street festivals all throughout the city An extremely diverse food scene A beautiful lakefront, riverwalk and gorgeous parks Excellent public transit ( I don't miss having a car living here at all) and our cost of living is significantly less than NYC and LA.
NYC has all of that except for a lakefront, because we have the ocean, instead.
That's fair but you have to admit the cost of living in NYC is much higher. I would be looking at paying at least triple what my current rent is for a one bedroom apt in NYC.
I love Chicago with all my heart, but NYC wins for me because I was very surprised by how nice the people are. Movies and TV makes New Yorkers out to be a bunch of pricks. Everyone in Chicago is actually an asshole. Except for shuck .
NYers get a bad rap because we’re typically in a hurry and don’t have time for bullshit. But people here are generally nicer than you’d think, and definitely kinder, and while we piss each other off all the time, we know how to pull together in a crisis. If you need help, here, ask, and you’ll get it, but we also have the decency to let someone sobbing in public because they just went through a breakup on a Manhattan street corner have their own space.
Post by man1cpixiedreamgirl on Apr 7, 2022 11:50:57 GMT -5
I can attest that NYC comes together to help Spiderman, and also leaves you alone when you're crying on the sidewalk (except for creepy men who will ask you why someone so pretty as you should be crying).
NYC has all of that except for a lakefront, because we have the ocean, instead.
That's fair but you have to admit the cost of living in NYC is much higher. I would be looking at paying at least triple what my current rent is for a one bedroom apt in NYC.
I definitely won’t argue that. There’s a reason Jimmy McMillan went viral here: The rent is too damn high.
That said, you at least get some return on your investment. Every musical artist stops here, all the time. Every movie opens here. Museums everywhere. Being here during the first wave of COVID sucked, but our medical infrastructure is outstanding and accessible. Not having to drive most of the time is great, and the subway goes anywhere in the city for one flat rate, which is different from most public transit systems in the country.
I also wonder how many people who say it’s fun to visit but they can’t imagine living here have spent significant time in parts of the city other than Manhattan and the trendier parts of Brooklyn. I don’t mean that as a dig, but it’s a bigger city, geographically, than I think it typically gets credit for, and there are a wide variety of residential experiences to be had.
I wouldn’t have guessed Chicago 3rd. I still don’t believe anyone has said what’s so great about it. I didn’t vote it off for a while just because of the music festivals.
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