10 cons of life in Los Angeles
After a year of living in San Francisco, I can say with confidence that we are unlikely to live there ever again. Moving to Los Angeles was one of the best choices. It is so different that it is simply impossible to find your corner there. But in any place, sooner or later, it starts to unnerve something, isn't it? I want to tell why Los Angeles infuriates me sometimes. The points are not very many, but still there.
The size of the city. A trivial example - to get to my hairdresser, I need to spend at least an hour and a half on the road on the highway. Leave somewhere from your area - approximately 30-40 minutes.
The need for a car. Public transport is very poorly developed, attention to the word is very, therefore, if you need to get from the western part of the city to the east and you do not have a car, the two-hour trip is simply provided for you.
Dirt and homeless. But this is more of a common US problem. If you walk along the avenue of stars in Hollywood, you can easily see a homeless person writing to the star of some Michael Jackson. And in the city center there is a whole tent area, which at night looks like a horror movie with zombies.
Weather. Los Angeles films are always sunny, they all wear bathing suits and shorts, but this is not entirely true. In fact, the weather in LA is like a woman during PMS. In summer, the temperature reaches 40 degrees and you can fry eggs in the sun with ease, and in a couple of weeks it can be 10 degrees and rain. In winter, it happens that we walk in jackets and turn on the heater, and sometimes it is possible to take a swim in the pool.
Prices for the purchase of housing. We are gradually eyeing the real estate market, and it seems to me that the prices are unreasonably high. 1-room apartments start from 400 and end there where your imagination doesn't even get.
The smell of grass is everywhere. On the street, in elevators, in traffic jams, from past a passing car. Hi, California. For some, this, of course, will be a virtue, but this smell makes me turn up.
Fear of earthquakes and tsunamis. We live on the fault of tectonic plates and always feel like on a “powder keg”. Therefore, just in case, we have prepared an “anxious backpack” and negotiated a plan of retreat, according to the type: “who is what animal is enough and where is running.”
Security. As in any metropolis, there are areas in which it is better not to go, and you just have to get used to the constant sounds of sirens.
Zwari I saw cockroaches the size of a hand in the street, and recently I found out that we have a wonderful look of spiders - the “black widow”. It is quieter here than, for example, in Arizona, where you can wake up with a scorpion in bed, but still.
Swim in the ocean? Forget it. So that it is not cold, you can swim in September, but the water is often dirty and muddy. Therefore, do not build illusions about clean beaches and turquoise water, do not be like me.
Все это, конечно, небольшая ложка дегтя, в бочке с медом. ЛА можно либо любить, либо ненавидеть, третьего не дано — и пока я очень довольна местом нашего обитания, но недостатки есть у всех.
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