You missed every comment he made about the issues with the UK government? The last I checked, the cities of the UK are still under that government.
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I spent a fabulous couple of days in Edinburgh about twelve years ago. Iād move there in a heartbeat if it were warmer and sunnier. I know, then it wouldnāt be Scotland, but I was there about six hours after Hogmanay ended, and it was colder than a witchās tit. As a native San Diegan, I expect 330 days of sunshine a year as my birthright, but stillā¦ man, I loved Scotland while I was there.
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Seattle is almost San Francisco expensive now (Iām a native living in the Bay Area). It doesnāt make much financial to move to Seattle anymore unless youāre well to do.
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Howās your million dollar home in Seattle doing?
Sorry to hear London is the pits.
Btw, you will want to replaceā
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'Merica!
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Not Seattle proper. Thereās affordable places all over Western Washington. I just say Seattle because every time I say Lynnwood, nobody knows where that is.
Much like how a lot of people say LA when theyāre actually located in Lakewood, or Anaheim, or Santa Monica. Except it stands to reason those are all part of the same megacity since thereās little demarcation separating them at all. One side of the street is one city, the other side is a different city. Whereas most of the towns in the Seattle metropolitan area have some actual scenery separating them.
That, and the Colorado River pumped to your tap.
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Yeah but Lynwood is a shithole and then you have to fight I-5 traffic to go do anything cool in Seattle.
Iām born and raised in Wallingford, went to the UW and Roosevelt High School, and commuted over 520 for most of 10 years before buying a place in Kenmore (which I sold in 2006 to move to California). Seattle is an out of control real estate bubble with the second or third worst traffic in the country. The only way Iād move back is if I was living in North Seattle and never getting in a car again.
Nah. We used to get rain way back then.
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What racial issues? Itās like 90+% white people. (Well, that is the racial issue.)
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I like Seattle. But yeah, the traffic is pretty much only beat out by LA and NYC. The realestate in the city is way too expensive, and cost of living is pretty high.
I live in Lynnwood, which I do agree is economically depressed (chicken farms arenāt so profitable there anymore), and commute to goddamn Federal Way every day. If I could take public transportation I would. But we donāt have buses or trains running at 1AM when my shift ends. Sometimes I seriously consider getting a pilotās licenseā¦
I still like Seattle better than LA though. We donāt reliably get apocalyptic bushfires that last months in Western Washington. We rarely have issues with running out of water (Last I remember was about 10 years ago) and we are about a hundred million times more ecologically responsible than LA although we could still do better.
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Wow there are a lot of LA haters here.
LA is massive collections of towns and cities. Anyone who makes a generalization about LA has no idea what they are talking about.
I live in San Francisco, but I was born in Santa Monica and lived there for a good portion of my life. There are walkable parts and non-walkable parts - it all depends on where you live (and considering it is 502 square miles - far bigger than all of NYC, there are a lot of choices). Theyāve fixed downtown LA now so that it is actually habitable. Smog is mostly a Valley thing (so donāt live in the Valley) and is so much improved since when I was a kid, that it is usually less smoggy than in London.
Water is not a problem for urban populations. LA has massive water storage systems they built over the last decade and if push comes to shove, agriculture will be the one losing the water before a single person goes thirsty.
I welcome you back to the States Cory. LA is a nice happy place and I loved growing up there. Iām sure your kids will as well.
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I suggest moving to Federal Way. It is about as livable as Lynwood.
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Lotsa fun people in LA, and the traffic is not a problem if you donāt have to go places to do your everyday things. But the real estate is a bit pricey. Not London pricey, but about 3x Arizona.
The weather is nice.
Some people in this thread seem to not know a cardinal rule that all coastal citizens know: never live more than 150 miles from a coast. Otherwise, it is lord of the flies and flyover country.
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The thing I love most about Los Angeles is that-- everywhere else ā New York, London, Berlin, people complain about how great their city used to be but isnāt now. In Los Angeles we complain about how things are, and why we arenāt moving into the future fast enough.
Also, Geoff Manaugh still works: http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/greater-los-angeles.html
Welcome to Los Angeles, Mr. Doctorow, itās just you and the parking lots here.
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See you 'round the Greater Los Angeles neighborhood, man!
