Redditors, where do you want to live? Redditors who live there, why should they not want to live there?

Born & raised.

As much as I love the city, here's why you don't want to live there:

Let's break it down part by part.

Hollywood - There's a reason they call it Hollyweird. You have all the stupid tourists with the god damn tour buses stopping in the middle of the street without even putting on their hazards, then continue driving 15 in a 35. The cops don't give a fuck, unless you jaywalk and you can expect to pick up a $75 ticket. Buses are filled with dead rotten smelling homeless people. Piss smell everywhere. Parking is a nightmare on a metaphorical elm street. Rent prices are okay in LA terms, but still outrageous (~$1300-1400 1BD)

West Hollywood - If you ain't gay, I'd suggest stay away. This is Gay Mecca where when you wanna rage at a party, it actually means a gay fucking nightclub where you ain't getting any tail. No one is friendly here, you have the people from Beverly Hills or Hollywood Hills either working here or going to the local Whole Foods. Bunch of douchers who don't give a fuck how they drive in their $100,000 Mercedes Benz or Euro super car.

Beverly Hills - You are definitely not living here unless it's Beverly Hills Adjacent. People in this thread say their city is expensive. No fuck that. Beverly Hills buku fucking expensive. Tons of snobby jews or the worst kind of Persian in the entire world reside here. You got the shittiest, most stuck up high school (Beverly Hills High) that breeds these little douchebags into the world with Daddy's credit card and BMWs out the wazoo. Nobody cares about you here unless you making a mil a year and act like a fucking douche.

West LA - Chill AF. Prolly my favorite place in LA. Rent is pretty high, talking like $1400-1900 for a 1BD. You have UCLA (Westwood) next door with all the shitty people that go there. Westwood is a nightmare for parking, don't live there. I'm serious. Parking there is a literal bitch.

Santa Monica - Ugh. This fucking part of town. Snobby white people on a health binge that can't afford Beverly Hills. These fucking assholes are all about their Kombucha, composts, and health nut attitudes. Fuck the traffic here. FUCK. IT. God damn Colorado Ave backs up harder than any street I've seen. Plus it's all shitty drivers. Like.... The worst god damn drivers in the whole city all reside in SM. Fuck SM.

Venice - Either you in the hood or you in the nice part. This is where people go if they're homeless, in some shitty mexi-cartel gang, a Venice crip, or you a rich white person living it up. So many god damn homeless people. Fuck. The beach is populated by literally all tourists. On the up though, if you want dank weed, there's prolly someone willing to sell you it. Cops are big cunts from my experiences. Pale in comparison to Culver City.

Culver City - Ever seen a bike cop with an MP5 mounted on the side? You will here. These motherfuckers carry god damn submachine guns like they're going out of style. Don't live here if you're black. I'm telling you. It's cheaper compared to inland, but fuck the cop mentality here. They're just dicks to be dicks. Gangs are also heavily present.

The Valley - Hot as fuck. All the smog collects here. Basically fucking Mexico City unless you're bordering the mountains or in Thousand Oaks. Don't speak Spanish? Gonna have a bad time. I don't really have bad beef with people who are Mexican, but these are a different breed. They will try to steal from you, they will do shady shit, and no one gives a fuck! Rent is cheap compared to the rest of LA, but you're gonna be paying just about the same price after you crank that A/C up boy!

Echo Park - Fucking hipsters and god damn shady Mexicans. Ugh. These aren't just hipsters, these are ratty haired, dirty, fixy fag hipsters. I can't stand these assholes. Taint the city with their pretentious attitude like they making 6 figures. Don't go out at night unless you wanna be robbed.

Korea Town - Holy shit. Cockroaches. Car fires. MS13. What else could you want? Rent is pretty cheap, but there's a god damn reason. Koreans don't even live on the same block as the Mexicans. They live in small pockets now or in Downtown. Fuck this place. It needs to burn to the ground. Did I mention cockroaches? They ain't just in your building dawg. They out in the streets hustling like the drug dealers.

Downtown - Like a shitty version of New York, but twice as expensive! I know you ain't bout to live here boy. Skid Row and Kings out here boy! Hella homeless like it's going out of style. If you aren't in the high rises, you getting high laces with meth, crack, etc. Fuck the people here.

Compton / East LA / South Central / WEstmont / Gardena / Hawthorne / Lynwood / Downey / Baldwin Hills / Leimert Park / - Shit... If you ain't Mexican or Black and in a gang, I wouldn't even suggest travelling through here except on the freeways my man.

Freeways - Forget about it in between 6AM-8AM and 3PM-7PM. Shit is nuts.

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