Why is los angeles so ugly

It's no surprise that areas with more greenery and foliage are the most expensive parts of the city. Originally Posted by bmwxi. You are correct that many areas of the LA area are brown in the summer and fall. However for many months in the winter we have nice green areas and snow covered mountains. A big difference from the grey depressing weather and brown areas of the east and west. Sounds like you didn't do your homework before moving to L.

A and you were expecting rainfall and greenery similar to The Pacific NW 3 Druggies are found in every major city in this Country including small towns and even suburbs Some druggies are either seen out in the open or done in the privacy of their own homes. A's Skyline is improving as time goes by,and the Mountain backdrop is beautiful no matter what time of the year it is.

A may have it's problems,but it's far from being a Depressive City I suggest you travel to other parts of the Country and The World to truly see what a depressive city looks like.

Originally Posted by Commonproject. Having lived in LA for almost 2 years, the realization is that most of this city looks very depressing. And don't get me wrong, there are absolutely beautiful pockets, but step outside of those and things immediately start to look like a 3rd world country. There is a lack of water aside from the beaches as you get inland, unless you want to drive 4 hours to Big Bear. Most of the landscape is dry and brown, including all the hiking trails and the mountains which all look the same due to the lack of greenery.

Am I just totally missing the beauty here? Count David. Yeah, many of the freeways and neighborhoods look horrible, but that is part of the charm. There's a lot to hate about LA, but no part of me would ever consider it less than mindblowing. Everyone is so tolerant that there are no standards, no restrictions.

Not being so tolerant is often good. August 26, at am. I am a Georgian who has had to live here part time for the past 9 years. I never realized how much esthetics affect mood until my second year in this ridiculously expensive ghettoish apartment building in Palms.

Developers are buying up all the cottages in the neighborhood to put up horrendous modern boxes, totally incongruent with what is around them. I am so grateful that my beautiful neighborhood in Georgia has covenants, as well as gorgeous trees. A million dollars there buys a mansion; in this part of LA, it buys a tear-down 2-bedroom.

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Neil Kramer has been writing about his life online since He has worked for Disney and HBO. Neil lives in NYC. You can contact him at neilochka on yahoo.

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All mini-mall decisions now go through me. I believe scientific fact : Research has shown that trees can act as biological filters, removing large quantities of particles from the urban atmosphere Broadmeadow et al.

The California Air Resources Board came to conclusion after doing this experiment: Two automated weather stations and instrumented passenger cars were located in unshaded and shaded portions of a parking lot in Davis, CA for a week in August The following trees are the best in lowering ozone : hackberry; white and green ash; Canary Island and Italian stone pines; shoestring acacia; maple; palo verde; camphor tree; Australian willow Geijara parviflora ; Chinese pistache; thornless mesquite; flowering pear; frontier, prospector, Chinese, and lacebark elms; and zelkova.

California owes you one for giving us a little bit of Fall. Fabulous October 6, at am. I dig, brother. More and more of Florida is looking like that, sadly. LOVE the Berkshires! I am near that neck of the woods originally.

Dave2 October 6, at am. Mmmm… donuts! Dana October 6, at am. Felicity October 6, at am. Serena October 6, at am. You would so have my vote for design czar! Dagny October 6, at am. You have my vote. Or California for that matter. I am sorry that I was such an asshole in my entry devoted to fall and Californians.

Viscountess of Funk October 6, at am. Neil October 6, at am. Jody October 6, at am. Antonio Villaraigosa is cute. I want him to be my grandpa. Rhea October 6, at am.

Daniel Fischer October 6, at am. Crazy ass L. EEK October 6, at am. Dating Dummy October 6, at am. Tatyana October 6, at am. Of course, what else to expect from you, Neil. Regulation my ass. I like palm trees! If I wanted normal trees, I would have stayed in Illinois. But anyway, ugly is the new pretty. So Los Angeles is pretty … in its own unique way. Heather B. More trees is always good by me. Los Feliz has a pretty good smattering of non-palm trees.

Tatyana — Capitalism would have eaten up Central Park a long time ago. Lauren October 6, at am. Nance October 6, at am. Neil October 6, at pm. Tatyana October 6, at pm. My poor, poor Neil. Everything is upside down in your head. Such pity. I meant to say Neilochka, not Neil. Regretably — yes. Marshall October 6, at pm. Danny October 6, at pm. But what an icky name, eh? Mini malls are wretched, I refuse to shop at them. Yes, Laurie, I love them, too.

Another good reason to visit LA. Gotta run. The new fall line of rain gear has just arrived at the hardware store. Jody October 6, at pm. Neil, I need a real address to send the real leaf to you. Dagny October 6, at pm. Paris Parfait October 7, at am. Nancy October 7, at pm. Omigosh — I was in LA in July and saw that donut place!

Jack October 9, at am. What could be better. Neil October 9, at am. Neil, I can show you all sorts of man made items throughout LA that will inspire you as well. The city and opportunities are vast. It is not a simple concrete jungle. You just made me feel like going out and planting a tree. Or the housing costs sweet heavens, please tell me why the housing recession does not seem to be making much of a dent.

What wakes me up panting for breath in the middle of the night is that I am just not good-looking enough to live in LA. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. Still, my reading and indeed writing about Los Angeles and Seoul has revealed to me not just a great deal about the nature of each individual city, but something about their deeper, less obvious commonalities as well.

Over the past ten to fifteen years both Los Angeles and Seoul have entered new eras of self-awareness, and a greater quantity of writing about both cities sometimes and sometimes not accompanied by quality has resulted in that same period.

In both cases some of that writing is straightforwardly celebratory, but at least as much of it strikes a pose of apology or defiance, as if these cities were inherently unworthy or even objectionable subjects. Claims about South Korea are usually about Seoul, which represents its country in a way no American city could, and Korean or non-Korean, even those who display a great enjoyment of Seoul in other respects will tear into its appearance without prompting, and with a glee that comes off as almost cathartic.

Even in the aftermath of the second world war, Europe managed to keep or restore a good amount of its physical history. Its hard for many to imagine the scale of destruction that this country has recovered from. Not everything that was built out of necessity has been replaced. Like most places, certain areas are prioritized for development by both the private and public sectors, while others are ignored.