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A couple of years ago, I walked the entirety of Wilshire Boulevard, from One Wilshire in Downtown all the way to the beach in Santa Monica. It's about 16 miles, and it takes all day, but you can do it. Breakfast at Eggslut, lunch at the Food Trucks at LACMA, and dinner in downtown Santa Monica. Landmarks along the way include Downtown, Macarthur Park, Koreatown, LACMA, La Brea Tar Pits, Beverly Hills, Westwood, and o…
Oh heck yes, El Segundo and Hawthorne: http://www.walkinginla.com/2016/Jul24/07_24_16.html My daily walking commute is between these two cities. El Segundo is home to several firms as it's a particularly business-friendly city. Meanwhile Hawthorne is best known as the home of Spacex. The In N Out that several of us go to more often than we should is in one of the photos.
The refinery usually offers a tour once a year for the public which is very informative and there is a great park at the top of a small hill off of Imperial Ave that affords what is probably the best view of LAX.
Sadly El Segundo's aerospace industry is slowly but surely shrinking. Plaza El Segundo, where that huge Whole Foods is, used to be a Honeywell fab if memory serves correctly.
LA is so ugly compared with SF.
LA is so ugly compared with SF.
Pro tip: tell the ICE agent at border control that you've come to check out the snide unhelpful bumpkins in their natural habitat. He'll smile knowingly and wave you through without so much as a cavity search.
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I'm going to assume you have never been to LA. Just like London it is a collection of "villages". What were originally separate cities: Santa Monica, Hollywood, Pasadena etc have all been absorbed into the whole that is LA. I'm sure you can recognize the same process in london where Hampstead and Stratford have distinct personalities and yet are now both a small part of the whole that is London. Now LA, unlike London…
I recommend "Los Angeles Plays Itself" to any interested in seeing the juxtaposition of what you see in movies/tv with the reality. There's also a much shorter, funnier one called "Vancouver Never Plays Itself" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojm74VGsZBU
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Instead of the explanation you've asked the internet for, you might find a visit to L.A., to clear up your puzzlement, more rewarding.
I can't tell if you wanted to be joking, or if you actually meant your comment to be this useless.
So as somebody who lives in London, explain to me why Los Angeles always looks so featureless, so lacking in any kind of urban identity I'd expect to find in a city? It always looks to me no so much as a city, but rather merely some buildings that are connected by freeways.
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Santa Monica isn't LA, like San Jose isn't SF. And anyways, Seattle and even Portland beat both of them.
Why is it important to point out that Santa Monica isn't the same as the city of Los Angeles? If you live there, you probably know already. If you don't live there, it doesn't matter anyway. They're neighbors. And it's not like Santa Monica is any more culturally unique than the dozens of communities that make up L.A. proper.
No one would confuse San Jose with San Francisco, Evans if they didn't live there.