10 Reasons Why I love El Lay

[Taverner]

I could never live there, but now that it's a part of my territory, I get to go almost weekly. Even though driving LA is a bitch, there are many other reasons it rocks.

1 - Downtown LA: It's best kept secret!

2 - FAMILY PANTS!!! FAMILY PANTS!!!

3 - Seeing shows at the Greek is fun

4 - Venice, Santa Monica and Claremont

5 - LA Hipsters are hipper than SF Hipsters (but then again, the SF Hipsters are better hipsters, because being a hipster means shunning the hip...)

6 - Dude is used as a noun, verb, conjunction, adverb, adjective and preposition.

7 - Pretty soon, you too will refer to 101 as "THE 101"

8 - Everyone there is beautiful. EVERYONE!!

9 - It's still California

10 - FAMILY PANTS!!!!

[GOPisEvil]

1. Cajun food!!!

Oh, Los Angeles, not Lousiana!

I like Los Angeles, too. :)

[Taverner]

3. We have Cajun food!

Chez Louis on La Cienega!

[GOPisEvil]

5. Next time I go out there, I'll have to check it out.

[Taverner]

6. Of course also check out "Ciudad" for pan-Latino food

OMG - best restaurant ever! And in the heart of downtown LA.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. I like it because of the freeway system.

No wait, I'm series.

[Taverner]

4. It is better than Seattle

Serious!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. Yeah, I know, that's exactly what I'm talking about.

In LA you've got a big fucking grid. If you want to get across town, there's a wide series of combinations and permutations of freeways you can take.

If you want to get across Seattle, well then you've got basically one option, through downtown and between the sound and two lakes over one bridge.

[Taverner]

9. El Lay also built highways, rather than pretend the population wasn't going up

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

13. Well, now, in Seattle's defense...

Seattle's population went up because of everybody getting the hell out of L.A.

:P

[Shakespeare]

8. You rock.

It's not every day a bay area boy recognizes the awesomeness of LA. :7

PM me sometime, I'll buy you a beer while you're here (or a mai tai at the Formosa, or a martini at Musso & Frank).

[Taverner]

10. I will!

And I would love to find the best IPA brewed in El Lay. It has to exist - every town has a "best" IPA.

[Fire Walk With Me]

11. George Liquor is supposed to be somewhere in LA county.

Where John K. got the name for his controversial, deal-breaking Ren and Stimpy character.

And don't forget the flowering trees. It's a smokescreen for the fact that there really isn't anything here, but they're nice in and of themselves.

[xchrom]

12. LA is -- or rather -- has way more cool things to do than sf.

wan't always that way -- but it is now.

and yes -- there are an amazing number of really beautiful people there.

i may need to take a trip down.

[Taverner]

14. In SF's defense, it has some pretty cool things to do too

Each city has their own personality - dare I say "charm"

Both uniquely Californian, both uniquely hedonistic, both uniquely progressive.

El Lay desperately needs the flying cars, however...

[xchrom]

15. la is bigger -- therefore holds greater variety.

san jose or berkeley or marin are not extensions of sf.

san jose is a little better -- but the other places some how don't spawn the variety that la does.

you are SO right about the flying cars.